# What the movies get right (and wrong) about relationships, with Paul Eastwick, PhD, and Eli Finkel, PhD

An episode of [Speaking of Psychology](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/705934263), 23 Jul 2025, 39 min.

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For many of us, movies offer our earliest lessons in love and help shape our expectations about what romance and relationships might look like. Relationship researchers Paul Eastwick, PhD, and Eli Finkel, PhD, are cohosts of the podcast “Love Factually,” where they use psychology to dissect their favorite rom coms. They talked to “Speaking of Psychology” about how films depict dating and relationship truths and myths, and how well our favorite characters’ love stories hold up when analyzed through the lens of science. Please take our listener survey at http://at.apa.org/SoPsurvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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