约会应用选项很多，为什么依然难以心动？
An Underappreciated Problem With Dating Apps
APS 收录的报道关注约会中“选择很多，却没有感觉”的困境，并回看由朋友、工作和共同生活逐渐认识伴侣的方式。报道提示我们留意相处过程，不应将其简化成“选择越多一定越不幸福”的定律。
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Many modern daters seem to have the same complaint: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Possible mates abound—on dating apps, in the databases of professional matchmakers—but none of them appeal.
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For much of American history, most people met their partner through family, friends, church, or—as coed universities and offices became more common—college and work. They got to know each other before becoming romantic. “You hung out with folks, and sometimes the sparks started to grow slowly from that,” the UC Davis psychology professor Paul Eastwick told me. In 1970, for example, about a third of heterosexual couples met through friends, but by 2020, the number was 20 percent. The percentage of people who met through family, school, college, or work also fell during that period.
来源：心理科学协会 APS · psychologicalscience.org