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Love Economics |
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| Confidence |
Belief that one is able to fulfill the needs of others. |
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| You are nice. |
You are willing to fulfill my emotional, entertainment, and materialistic needs without any or little cost. |
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| Codependency or I'm stuck in this relationship. |
Breakup cost is very high. |
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| I like bad boys. |
I need my entertainment needs fulfilled by novelty and mystery.
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| You are funny. |
You are fulfilling my entertainment needs using humor.
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| You are so smart (interesting). |
You are fulfilling my entertainment needs by intellectually stimulating me.
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| We are dating. |
I am verifying the amount of net benefit I am receiving from being with you.
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| Let's go to Happy Hour. |
Let's search for love by expanding our social network.
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| You are picky. |
Your selectiveness coefficient is very small.
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| I can't go out with you. |
I believe my benefit being with you is lower than my search cost, maintenance cost, and breakup risk.
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I believe I will find or have found someone who gives me more net benefit than you.
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| He/she is my soulmate. |
He/she gives me the highest benefit/cost ratio than anybody in this world.
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| I don't care about money. |
I have already fulfilled my primary and materialistic desires.
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| She is high(low) maintenance. |
She requires high (low) maintenance cost.
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| I can not stand people who use the word "soulmate" or "true love". |
I am a hardcore work-it-out believer.
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I am a jaded soulmate believer.
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| I am falling for you. |
Your net benefit is at sufficient levels for me to reciprocate my love.
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| We are in love. |
Our net benefits exchange is at equilibrium.
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| People who use online dating services |
People who have optimized their search time cost and financial search cost.
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| I am attracted to tall, athletic men |
I need someone to protect me and my offspring.
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| sex appeal |
physical attractiveness
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| I like young women with big breasts. |
I need a fertile woman who can bear and nurse my children.
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