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Chapter 10 - Slow Love: Courtship in the Digital Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2018

By
Helen E. Fisher  and
Justin R. Garcia
Edited by
Robert J. Sternberg  and
Karin Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Karin Sternberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Today, some 66% of single Americans have had a one-night-stand at some point in their dating life; 34% have had sex with a potential partner before their first date; 54% have had a friends-with-benefits relationship (in which the couple meet for uncommitted, socially hidden sexual activity); and 56% of singles have lived together before their wedding.

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The New Psychology of Love , pp. 208 - 222
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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