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Introduction

1.  The Manifesto's Purpose

     The Need

     The Method

     How to Use the Manifesto

     The Outcome

2.  Love Economics

     Behavioral Models

     The Core Variables

     A Relationship

     Model Assumptions

     Emotional Availability

     Past Love Experiences

     Commitment

     How to Use the Model

3.  The Benefits of Love

     Emotional Needs

     Entertainment Needs

     Materialistic Needs

4.  The Costs of Love

     Search Cost

     Your Attractiveness

     Your Social Networking Skills

     Search Time Cost

     Search Financial Cost

     Rejection Cost

     Research Cost

     Maintenance Cost

     Opportunity Cost

     Breakup Risk

     Risk of Being Dumped

     Breakup Cost

5.  Attraction

     Attractiveness

     Qualities to Fulfill Needs of Others

     Confidence

     Lowering Love Costs of Others

     Situational Forces

     Other Attractive Traits

6.  Weaknesses of the Model

7.  Soulmates & True Love

     Soulmate Theory

     Number of Soulmate Believers

     The Evidence of Soulmates

     Chances of Marrying Your Soulmate

8.  Methods of Finding Soulmates

     On Your Own

     Virtual Communities

     Personal Ads

     Traditional Dating Services

     Online Dating Services

9.  How to Solve Dating

     The Solution

     How You Can Help Solve Dating

10.  Appendix

     Other Attractive Traits

     Love Economics Translations

References

About the Author




The Soulmate Manifesto:

Uniting all Soulmate Believers

In an Effort to Solve Dating



Copyright 2003. Aluran, Inc.



The Soulmate Manifesto:

Uniting All Soulmate Believers in an Effort to Solve Dating

About the Author

Chau Vuong, Pharm.D.
Chau is the founder and CEO of three technology companies. The first company is Financore, a software company offering web services, based on artificial intelligence, for financial advisors and money managers. The second company is CollectiveNotes, a peer-to-peer virtual community dedicated to simplifying and optimizing the way clinical and drug information is learned. The third company, still in stealth mode, hopes to help people to expand and maintain their social networks as well as to find their soulmates.

Prior to founding these companies, he was a pharmaceutical equity analyst at Robertson Stephens, an investment bank, covering emerging pharmaceutical and drug delivery companies. Prior to this, he worked for Wentworth, Hauser, & Violich, an asset management firm, as a healthcare equity analyst. Before that, he was a strategic marketing consultant at Genentech, a leading biotech company. He also was involved in various pharmacoeconomics, pharmacokinetics, and toxicology studies for pharmaceutical and biotech companies including Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Isis Pharmaceuticals, and Gilead Sciences.

Chau holds a Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of California, San Francisco, and Bachelor degrees in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, as well as Psychology from the University of California, San Diego. He plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Psychology. Chau has dedicated his life and wealth to finding his soulmate and helping others to do the same.