The Future of Personality and Close Relationships

I think really quantifying how other people influence us is part of it we do a lot of matching and similarity stuff in lab which you're involved with. There's tons of intuition about like when a friend tells you that they're dating somebody oftentimes they say like oh I want someone who's compatible on these things who's similar in these things yeah It's been a little underwhelming that research so but again that is part of the broader agenda of like how do people influence us, he says.