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The Science of the Friend Zone

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Published on Jan 10, 2013

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MUSIC BY: https://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow

Wild Sex episode: http://bit.ly/VNLpGl

My episode about how much money love is worth: http://bit.ly/UO91ZJ

Can guys and girls just be friends? VIDEO: http://bit.ly/UO8R4H

Jenna Marbles on "nice guys" [NSFW language]: http://bit.ly/UOdpIa

FRIENDS episode about the Friend's zone: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583579/

Clip of friend zone moment on FRIENDS: http://bit.ly/10iUITd

Know Your Meme on the friend zone: http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/241341...

Limerence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence

Bateman's Principle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateman&...

Assortative mating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assortat...

Homogamy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogamy...)

Marshall Fine description of the friend zone: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marshal...

Scarcity principle and attraction: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/t...

Escaping the friend zone (includes Ben Franklin effect): http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/t...

Good article on other reasons we desire what we can't have: http://arabia.msn.com/lifestyle/valen...

BOWLING ALONE book: http://bowlingalone.com/

Sad article about friendship decline: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/n...

Cyberbalkanization: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-cyber...

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  • Dean Catterson

    Dean Catterson 3 days ago

    Cyperbalkanisation: this is reddit in a nutshell haha

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  • starXking

    starXking 13 hours ago

    I'd prefer to listen to him for 6 hours than going to school 1 hour

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  • Amot Rea

    Amot Rea 11 seconds ago

    Enjoy being forever alone, you won't be missed~!

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  • Allan Zepeda

    Allan Zepeda 41 minutes ago

    7:45 lol xD

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  • Yohanes Haile

    Yohanes Haile 1 hour ago

    The last part he said... Wow, I never thought of it that way!

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  • Ken Silva

    Ken Silva 4 hours ago

    Is the scarcity effect a psychological phenomenon or just simple economic signaling?

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    kamarguera 5 hours ago

    U WOT M8 LOL

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    kamarguera 5 hours ago

    y u always finish your videos in a so epic way?? amazing information!

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  • Amoechick

    Amoechick 5 hours ago

    You might also want to learn to spell. Chicks love spelling. Also punctuation. And congratulations on not being a 'total' piece of shit -- y'know this implies you're still partially a piece of shit, of course?

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    CraftyTheCat 7 hours ago

    I LOVE this channel! I subscribe

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  • Yukihiro21

    Yukihiro21 8 hours ago

    Logic, you're doing it right. Thank you.

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