Presentation and Perception on Online Dating Sites
Joseph Walther describes the hyperpersonal model and its relevance to the study of online dating. 'Idealisation' of perception and presentat...
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Oxford Abridged Short Talks
Short interesting lectures from top Oxford academics. Includes a series of short lectures about love, held on Valentines Day 2011.
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11 episodesPartner Compatibility and Online Dating Sites
Erina Lee discusses the importance of similarity between partners in terms of long-term relationship satisfaction. She discusses some compat...
Who did Plato (not) love?
Platonic love? Plato's main text on love, the Symposium, takes a broad look at what love means, offering a serious yet humorous, poignant an...
If marriage is a trade, then what price romance?
Theatre was a forum for early twentieth-century feminists to challenge romantic ideals of marriage, arguing against society blocking women's...
Not only the lonely: the social implications of the rise of online dating
Dr Hogan explores values towards online dating, relating them to whether one's friends have dated online and whether social network software...
Swirls and secrets: the mysteries of Jonathan Swift's love letters
In Swift's letters to his adored Stella, we see an elaborate combination of language and code to tease his reader but still communicate inti...
An advert for the lecture series "Love and other things"
This advert introduces a series of 4 talks on the subject of love and romance. The 10 minute talks took place at Oxford University on Valent...
Darwin and Friends
Professor Robin Dunbar explores if there is a limit to the number of friends we can keep track of and explains the origin of "Dunbar's Numbe...
Blood Disorders and Human Malaria
Professor Sunetra Gupta explains the surprising relationship between blood disorders and malaria in humans. Could two blood disorders ever b...
Slime Moulds to run the railways?
Should we let slime moulds run our railways? Slime moulds can produce networks as efficient, cost-effective and resilient as railway network...
Success of the Smelliest - Sexual attraction and pheromones
Sexual attraction and pheromones? Dr. Tristram Wyatt talks about pheromones and evolution in a short talk about the "Success of the smellies...