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Research Interests
I am an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Texas A&M University. My research has explored sex differences in initial attraction processes, the theories people hold about their romantic lives, and the importance of attachment in early relationship development. I am also interested in the intersection of race and romantic attraction, the potential for anthropology and archaeology to inform evolutionary psychology, and the use of both (a) speed-dating and (b) virtual environments to test social psychological hypotheses.
Please email me if you are a Texas A&M undergraduate looking to complete your 484 and/or 485 requirement in my laboratory.
Journal Publications
Eastwick, P. W., & Neff, L. A. (in press). Do ideal partner preferences predict divorce? A tale of two metrics. Social Psychological and Personality Science. [Download Article]
Finkel, E. J., Eastwick, P. W., Karney, B. R., Reis, H. T., & Sprecher, S. (in press). Online dating: A critical analysis from the perspective of psychological science. Psychological Science in the Public Interest. [Download Article]
Tidwell, N. D., Eastwick, P. W., & Finkel, E. J. (in press). Perceived, not actual, similarity predicts initial attraction in a live romantic context: Evidence from the speed-dating paradigm. Personal Relationships. [Download Article]
Eastwick, P. W. & Finkel, E. J. (2012). The evolutionary armistice: Attachment bonds moderate the function of ovulatory cycle adaptations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 174-184. [Download Article]
Eastwick, P. W., Eagly, A. H., Finkel, E. J., & Johnson, S. E. (2011). Implicit and explicit preferences for physical attractiveness in a romantic partner: A double dissociation in predictive validity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 993-1011. [Download Article] [Chicago Tribune]
Eastwick, P. W., Finkel, E. J., & Eagly, A. H. (2011). When and why do ideal partner preferences affect the process of initiating and maintaining romantic relationships? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 1012-1032. [Download Article]
Reis, H. T., Maniaci, M. R., Caprariello, P. A., Eastwick, P. W., & Finkel, E. J. (2011). Familiarity does indeed promote attraction in live interaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 557-570. [Download Article] [Commentary]
Reis, H. T., Maniaci, M. R., Caprariello, P. A., Eastwick, P. W., & Finkel, E. J. (2011). In live interaction, does familiarity promote attraction or contempt? A reply to Norton, Frost, & Ariely, (2011). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 575-578. [Download Article]
Ireland, M. E., Slatcher, R. B., Eastwick, P. W., Scissors, L. E., Finkel, E. J., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2011). Language style matching predicts relationship initiation and stability. Psychological Science, 22, 39-44. [Download Article] [Reuters]
Eastwick, P. W., Saigal, S. D., & Finkel, E. J. (2010). Smooth operating: A structural analysis of social behavior perspective on initial romantic encounters. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1, 344-352. [Download Article]
Eastwick, P. W. (2009). Beyond the Pleistocene: Using phylogeny and constraint to inform the evolutionary psychology of human mating. Psychological Bulletin, 135, 794-821. [Download Article]
Eastwick, P. W., Richeson, J. A., Son, D., & Finkel, E. J. (2009). Is love colorblind? Political orientation and interracial romantic desire. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1258-1268. [Download Article]
Eagly, A. H., Eastwick, P. W., & Johannesen-Schmidt, M. C. (2009). Possible selves in marital roles: The impact of the anticipated division of labor on the mate preferences of women and men. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 403-414. [Download Article]
Eastwick, P. W. & Gardner, W. L. (2009). Is it a game? Evidence for social influence in the virtual world. Social Influence, 4, 18-32. [Download Article]
Finkel, E. J. & Eastwick, P. W. (2009). Arbitrary social norms influence sex differences in romantic selectivity. Psychological Science, 20, 1290-1295. [Download Article]
Eastwick, P. W. & Finkel, E. J. (2008). The attachment system in fledgling relationships: An activating role for attachment anxiety. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 628-647. [Download Article]
Eastwick, P. W. & Finkel, E. J. (2008). Sex differences in mate preferences revisited: Do people know what they initially desire in a romantic partner? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 245-264. [Download Article] [Newsweek]
Eastwick, P. W. & Finkel, E. J. (2008). Speed-dating as a methodological innovation. The Psychologist, 21, 402-403.
Eastwick, P. W., Finkel, E. J., Krishnamurti, T., & Loewenstein, G. (2008). Mispredicting distress following romantic breakup: Revealing the time course of the affective forecasting error. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 800-807. [Download Article] [Washington Post]
Finkel, E. J. & Eastwick, P. W. (2008). Speed-dating. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 193-197. [Download Article] [Nature] [Chicago Tribune]
Eastwick, P. W., Finkel, E. J., Mochon, D., & Ariely, D. (2007).
Selective versus unselective romantic desire: Not all reciprocity
is created equal. Psychological Science, 18, 317-319. [Download Article]
[New
York Times]
Finkel, E. J., Eastwick, P. W., & Matthews, J. (2007). Speed-dating
as an invaluable tool for studying romantic attraction: A methodological
primer. Personal Relationships, 14, 149-166. [Download
Article]
Eastwick, P. W., Eagly, A. H., Glick, P., Johannesen-Schmidt, M.
C., Fiske, S. T., Blum, A. M. B., Eckes, T., Freiburger, P., Huang,
L., Fernández, M. L., Manganelli, A. M., Pek, J. C. X., Castro,
Y. R., Sakalli-Ugurlu, N., Six-Materna, I., & Volpato, C. (2006).
Is traditional gender ideology associated with sex-typed mate preferences?
A test in nine nations. Sex Roles, 54, 603-614. [Download Article]
Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries
Eastwick, P. W. (in press). Cultural influences on attraction. In Jeffry A. Simpson & Lorne Campbell (Eds.), Handbook of Close Relationships. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Eastwick, P. W., & Tidwell, N. D. (in press). To pair bond or not: The evolutionary psychological approach to human mating. In C. Hazan & M. Campa (Eds.), Human Bonding. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Hunt, L. L., & Eastwick, P. W. (in press). Love, satisfaction, and mate value: What makes some partners better than others? In L. Bormans (Ed.), The World Book of Love. Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo Publishers.
Eastwick, P. W. & Finkel, E. J. (2009). Infatuation. In Harry T. Reis & Susan Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships (pp. 843-846). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Eastwick, P. W. & Finkel, E. J. (2009). Reciprocity of Liking. In Harry T. Reis & Susan Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships (pp. 1333-1336). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Finkel, E. J. & Eastwick, P. W. (2009). Hard-to-get phenomenon. In Harry T. Reis & Susan Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships (pp. 788-790). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Finkel, E. J. & Eastwick, P. W. (2009). Speed-dating. In Harry T. Reis & Susan Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships (pp. 1587-1589). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Finkel, E. J., Molden, D. C., Johnson, S. E., & Eastwick, P. W. (2009). Regulatory focus and romantic alternatives. In J. P. Forgas, R. F. Baumeister, and D. M. Tice (Eds.), Self-regulation: Cognitive, affective, and motivational processes (pp. 319-335). New York: Psychology Press.
Eastwick, P. W. & Finkel, E. J. (2008). Speed-dating: A powerful and flexible paradigm for studying romantic relationship initiation. In S. Sprecher, A. Wenzel, & J. Harvey (Eds.), The Handbook of Relationship Initiation (pp. 217-234). New York, NY: Erlbaum. [Download Article]