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Overview

Paul W. Eastwick is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States and specializes primarily in psychology and social sciences. Their research spans across several subfields including social psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, and clinical psychology.

Their scholarly output encompasses a range of topics, focusing notably on attachment and relationship dynamics, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, behavioral health and interventions, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, and family dynamics and relationships.

Eastwick's recent publications include the following:

  • Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations (2021) in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Solutions to the problems of incremental validity testing in relationship science (2020) in Personal Relationships
  • Implicit Bias ≠ Bias on Implicit Measures (2022) in Psychological Inquiry
  • Personality and Social Relationships: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go (2023) in Personality Science

The venues where Eastwick most frequently publishes include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Psychological Inquiry
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

Frequent collaborators in Eastwick's work consist of:

  • Eli J. Finkel
  • Samantha Joel
  • Alison Ledgerwood
  • Bertram Gawronski
  • Serena Chen

Best Publications

  • Online Dating A Critical Analysis From the Perspective of Psychological Science

    Eli J. Finkel;Paul W. Eastwick;Benjamin R. Karney;Harry T. Reis

  • Sex differences in mate preferences revisited: Do people know what they initially desire in a romantic partner?

    Paul W. Eastwick;Eli J. Finkel

  • Language Style Matching Predicts Relationship Initiation and Stability

    Molly E. Ireland;Richard B. Slatcher;Paul W. Eastwick;Lauren E. Scissors

  • The Predictive Validity of Ideal Partner Preferences: A Review and Meta-Analysis

    Paul W. Eastwick;Laura B. Luchies;Eli J. Finkel;Lucy L. Hunt

  • Familiarity does indeed promote attraction in live interaction.

    Harry T. Reis;Michael R. Maniaci;Peter A. Caprariello;Paul W. Eastwick

  • The Psychology of Close Relationships: Fourteen Core Principles.

    Eli J. Finkel;Jeffry A. Simpson;Paul W. Eastwick

  • Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies

    Samantha Joel;Paul W. Eastwick;Colleen J. Allison;Ximena B. Arriaga

  • Perceived, not actual, similarity predicts initial attraction in a live romantic context: Evidence from the speed-dating paradigm

    Natasha D. Tidwell;Paul W. Eastwick;Eli J. Finkel

  • Speed-dating as an invaluable tool for studying romantic attraction: A methodological primer.

    Eli J. Finkel;a Paul W. Eastwick;a Jacob Matthews

  • Best research practices in psychology: Illustrating epistemological and pragmatic considerations with the case of relationship science.

    Eli J. Finkel;Paul W. Eastwick;Harry T. Reis

  • The attachment system in fledgling relationships: an activating role for attachment anxiety.

    Paul W. Eastwick;Eli J. Finkel

  • Is it a game? Evidence for social influence in the virtual world

    Paul W. Eastwick;Wendi L. Gardner

  • Selective Versus Unselective Romantic Desire: Not All Reciprocity Is Created Equal

    Paul W. Eastwick;Eli J. Finkel;Daniel Mochon;Dan Ariely

  • Is Traditional Gender Ideology Associated with Sex-Typed Mate Preferences? A Test in Nine Nations

    Paul W. Eastwick;Alice H Eagly;Peter Glick;Mary C. Johannesen-Schmidt

  • Mispredicting distress following romantic breakup: Revealing the time course of the affective forecasting error

    Paul W. Eastwick;Eli J. Finkel;Tamar Krishnamurti;George Loewenstein

  • Beyond the pleistocene: using phylogeny and constraint to inform the evolutionary psychology of human mating.

    Paul W. Eastwick

  • Implicit and explicit preferences for physical attractiveness in a romantic partner: A double dissociation in predictive validity.

    Paul W. Eastwick;Alice H. Eagly;Eli J. Finkel;Sarah E. Johnson

  • "Going out" of the box: Close intercultural friendships and romantic relationships spark creativity, workplace innovation, and entrepreneurship.

    Jackson G. Lu;Andrew C. Hafenbrack;Paul W. Eastwick;Dan J. Wang

  • Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Romantic Attraction.

    Samantha Joel;Paul W. Eastwick;Eli J. Finkel

  • When and why do ideal partner preferences affect the process of initiating and maintaining romantic relationships

    Paul W. Eastwick;Eli J. Finkel;Alice H. Eagly

Frequent Co-Authors

Eli J. Finkel
Eli J. Finkel Northwestern University
Harry T. Reis
Harry T. Reis University of Rochester
Jeffry A. Simpson
Jeffry A. Simpson University of Minnesota
Steve Loughnan
Steve Loughnan University of Edinburgh
Brock Bastian
Brock Bastian University of Melbourne
Susan Sprecher
Susan Sprecher Illinois State University
Malte Friese
Malte Friese Saarland University
William B. Swann
William B. Swann The University of Texas at Austin
Michał Bilewicz
Michał Bilewicz University of Warsaw
Alice H. Eagly
Alice H. Eagly Northwestern University

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