Science Blog has a great post on the mysterious chemistry of love. The scientists took a look at interactions at a HurryDate get-together, in which participants had 3 minutes to evaluate each potential dating partner.
“Although they had three minutes, most participants made their decision based on the information that they probably got in the first three seconds,” said Robert Kurzban, an assistant professor in Penn Department of Psychology. “Somewhat surprisingly, factors that you might think would be really important to people, like religion, education and income, played very little role in their choices.”