Tonight I’ll be hosting The Science of Pulling event, part of the British Science Festival a week long celebration of science, this year hosted in Birmingham.
Have you ever wondered…
- how much of your adult life are you likely to be single?
- can one night stands ever lead to love?
- do dating manuals ever work?
- what’s the best way to meet someone?
- can science really teach us how to pull?
I’ll be answering those questions and talking about what science can tell us about dating and relationships. We’ll find out how scientists study dating, how much we don’t know about this area of our intimate lives, and we’ll bust some of the truly bad science around dating advice.
The aim of the event is to introduce people to science in a fun way, but show how social science in particular can be usefully applied to our daily lives. I’m hoping people will leave feeling more confident and happy about their relationship status, and possibly even with a date or two lined up as after my talk there’s a chance to join in the science festival’s first speed dating event where you can put the science of pulling to the test.
It’s a real pleasure for me to return to the West Midlands for this event, having had my first lectureship post at Aston University (Birmingham) in the psychology department, and where I studied for my PhD in Applied Human Psychology. I also completed my postdoc research in the West Midlands on a community study of women involved in street prostitution an experience that changed my approach to understanding and doing research and shifted my practice into critical social psychology and healthcare.
The Science of Pulling event is open to anyone whether you’re in a relationship or single, have an interest in sex research or science more generally, and whether you’re straight, gay, lesbian, bi or trans. Please join us if you’re able, or check out the #britscifest hashtag where hopefully we’ll be able to share what we’re learning about pulling power.
I’ll leave you with a guide I wrote a while ago for anyone who’s single but considering dating – useful, even without the science bit!
The Science of Pulling
Tonight I’ll be hosting The Science of Pulling event, part of the British Science Festival a week long celebration of science, this year hosted in Birmingham.
Have you ever wondered…
- how much of your adult life are you likely to be single?
- can one night stands ever lead to love?
- do dating manuals ever work?
- what’s the best way to meet someone?
- can science really teach us how to pull?
I’ll be answering those questions and talking about what science can tell us about dating and relationships. We’ll find out how scientists study dating, how much we don’t know about this area of our intimate lives, and we’ll bust some of the truly bad science around dating advice.
The aim of the event is to introduce people to science in a fun way, but show how social science in particular can be usefully applied to our daily lives. I’m hoping people will leave feeling more confident and happy about their relationship status, and possibly even with a date or two lined up as after my talk there’s a chance to join in the science festival’s first speed dating event where you can put the science of pulling to the test.
It’s a real pleasure for me to return to the West Midlands for this event, having had my first lectureship post at Aston University (Birmingham) in the psychology department, and where I studied for my PhD in Applied Human Psychology. I also completed my postdoc research in the West Midlands on a community study of women involved in street prostitution an experience that changed my approach to understanding and doing research and shifted my practice into critical social psychology and healthcare.
The Science of Pulling event is open to anyone whether you’re in a relationship or single, have an interest in sex research or science more generally, and whether you’re straight, gay, lesbian, bi or trans. Please join us if you’re able, or check out the #britscifest hashtag where hopefully we’ll be able to share what we’re learning about pulling power.
I’ll leave you with a guide I wrote a while ago for anyone who’s single but considering dating – useful, even without the science bit!
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