The article explains that although popular culture promotes the dramatic ideas that “opposites attract research such as Parkinson, Kleinbaum, and Wheatley's 2018 brain imaging study where participants watched the same videos while the scientists compared their responses to real life friendship networks, finding that close friends processed the world in similar ways shows that people usually from stronger, more satisfying relationships with others who share their values, attitudes, and ways of thinking, meaning that similarity rather than opposition is what most often predicts lasting friendships and romances.