The big joker on the topic of love, popular American stand-up comedian Aziz Ansari, paired with New York University sociology professor Eric Klinenberg, conducted a two-year-long study on romantic relationships.
Hundreds of interviews, online surveys, focus groups around the world, comments from leading sociologists and psychologists to understand what has changed and what has remained the same. The conclusion suggests itself as follows: people of the past just wanted to live in peace and family, and contemporaries choose to rush about in search of ideal love. From the standpoint of emotions, there are almost no changes: I want to be loved and happy all my life, but I don’t want to experience pain. The complexities of communication are still the same, only now they are expressed differently: “Call? Or send SMS? or “Why did he send me a pizza emoji?” In a word, the authors see no reason to escalate drama.
Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 288 r.