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Research Interests
I am a 6th 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, 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.
In the fall, I will be an assistant professor at Texas A & M University.
Journal Publications
Eastwick, P. W. (in press). Beyond the Pleistocene: Using phylogeny and constraint to inform the evolutionary psychology of human mating. Psychological Bulletin. [Download Article]
Eastwick, P. W., Richeson, J. A., Son, D., & Finkel, E. J. (in press). Is love colorblind? Political orientation and interracial romantic desire. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [Download Article]
Finkel, E. J. & Eastwick, P. W. (in press). Arbitrary social norms influence sex differences in romantic selectivity. Psychological Science. [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]
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
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. (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.
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]
