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Thanks to technology, we are more connected than ever-digitally. But at what cost? How have technologies, like online dating sites and apps like Tinder, changed attitudes and behaviors? How do we choose a partner and stay interested when we have an almost infinite world of choices at our fingertips? Will marriage become a thing of the past? How do men and women interact and act differently? What about millennials versus baby boomers? What do we know, and what have we yet to figure out, about the interrelationships among technology, attraction, love and the brain?
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