Notre Dame's football program is best known for stories about fake girlfriends, but across campus in the sociology department they're interested in real ones--and boyfriends and wives and husbands as well. "Notre Dame Sociologist Elizabeth McClintock studies the impacts of physical attractiveness and age on mate selection and the effects of gender [meaning sex] and income on relationships," announces a university press release. "Her research offers new insights into why and when Cupid's arrow strikes."

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