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Research Interests
I am a 5th year graduate student at Northwestern
University, working primarily with Alice
Eagly and Eli Finkel. 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, and the use of
both (a) speed-dating and (b) virtual environments
to test social psychological hypotheses.
Journal Publications
Eastwick, P. W. & Finkel, E. J. (in press). The attachment system in fledgling relationships: An activating role for attachment anxiety. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [Download Article]
Eastwick, P. W. & Gardner, W. L. (in press). Is it a game? Evidence for social influence in the virtual world. Social Influence. [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]
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. & Finkel, E. J. (in press). Infatuation. In Harry T. Reis & Susan Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Eastwick, P. W. & Finkel, E. J. (in press). Reciprocity of Liking. In Harry T. Reis & Susan Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Finkel, E. J. & Eastwick, P. W. (in press). Hard-to-get phenomenon. In Harry T. Reis & Susan Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Finkel, E. J. & Eastwick, P. W. (in press). Speed-dating. In Harry T. Reis & Susan Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Finkel, E. J., Molden, D. C., Johnson, S. E., & Eastwick, P. W. (in press). Regulatory focus and romantic alternatives. In J. P. Forgas, R. F. Baumeister, and D. M. Tice (Eds.), Self-regulation: Cognitive, affective, and motivational processes. 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]
Manuscripts Under Review or Revising for Resubmission
Eastwick, P. W., Richeson, J. A., Son, D., & Finkel, E. J. (under review). Is love colorblind? Political orientation and interracial romantic desire. [Download Article]
Eagly, A. H., Eastwick, P. W., & Johannesen-Schmidt, M. C. (under review). Possible selves in marital roles: The impact of the anticipated division of labor on the mate preferences of women and men. [Download Article]
Finkel, E. J. & Eastwick, P. W. (under review). She’s found that loving feeling: Embodied approach leads to romantic approach. [Download Article]
Molden, D. C., Finkel, E. J., Johnson, S. E., & Eastwick, P. W. (under review). In the eye of the motivated beholder: Promotion- and prevention-focused evaluations of romantic alternatives. [Download Article]
Manuscripts in Preparation
Eastwick, P. W. Beyond the Pleistocene: Using phylogeny and constraint to inform the evolutionary psychology of human mating.
Eastwick, P. W. & Finkel, E. J. The evolutionary armistice: Attachment bonds moderate the function of ovulatory cycle adaptations.
Gardner, W. L., Eastwick, P. W., Miele, D. & Slotter, E. B. Convergent evolution of the self in nonprimates.
Olivola, C. Y., Todorov, A., Eastwick, P. W., Finkel, E. J., Hortaçsu, A., & Ariely, D. A picture is worth a thousand inferences: First impression and mate selection in Internet matchmaking and speed dating.
