Why opposites don't attract in love and sex

Why opposites don't attract in love and sex Getty The old adage tells us opposites attract. “Ever since, there’s been really strong, widespread evidence for similarity attraction.” Bahn found this in her own 2017 study, in which researchers met pairs of people by approaching them in public spaces in Massachusetts. In one example, mentions of “Black Lives Matter” increased by 55 times in 2020 on the dating app Tinder, indicating that people were unwilling to compromise on partners who didn’t share their most crucial convictions. “Based on our research showing that friends are similar in personality to begin with,” says Wu, the people using dating apps that recommend friends of friends are essentially just meeting more people like themselves. The company’s release of badges, like the BLM badge and a “Climate Change Advocate” badge, to help people easily find others who share their key beliefs, suggests that this trend is only growing.