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“Instant Chemistry” Offers Test That Uses Genetics To Determine Compatibility

Posted on June 30, 2014

Instantchemistry logoABC NEWS – June 26 – Instant Chemistry, a company founded by psychologist Ron Gonzalez and his wife Sara Seabrooke, offers DNA testing for the online dating industry. The test looks at genes in the immune system. According to Gonzalez and Seabrooke, the more differences there are between two people’s immune systems, the more attractive they’ll find each other. For $199, couples can get a kit delivered to their house.

by Bianna Golodryga and Candace Smith
See full article at ABC News

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2 thoughts on ““Instant Chemistry” Offers Test That Uses Genetics To Determine Compatibility”

  1. Fernando de Argentina's avatar Fernando de Argentina says:
    June 30, 2014 at 1:47 pm

    Instant Chemistry’s DNA Dating is a HOAX, another BIG FRAUD in the Online Dating Industry.
    They now offer the same as Basisnote, GenePartner, ScientificMatch and other proposals offering DNA matching which are only based on the T_shirt Experiment that only proved:
    normally cycling women (not pregnant and not taking contraceptive pills) are (temporarily) attracted by the perspiration scent of clothes used by men with a Major Histocompatibility Complex MHC more dissimilar to theirs,
    and not proved: women attracted by those men for long term mating with commitment.
    and
    2 Scientific Papers debunk their claims.
    1) “Human oestrus” Gangestad & Thornhill (2008)
    “Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle”
    2) “Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans?” Alvergne & Lummaa (2009)
    “.. whereas normally cycling women express a preference for MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) dissimilarity in mates, pill users prefer odours of MHC-SIMILAR men, indicating that pill use might eliminate adaptive preferences for genetic dissimilarity.”
    …………….
    “…., Roberts et al. attempted to eliminate these potential confounds by adopting a within-subject design in which women’s mate preferences were assessed before and after they began taking the pill. Women starting the pill showed a significant preference shift towards MHC SIMILARITY compared with three months before the pill was taken, a shift that was not observed in the control group of normally cycling women.”
    Please remember personality = temperament + character
    Personality is composed of two basic types of traits:
    traits that an individual acquires, dimensions of character;
    and
    traits with biological underpinnings, dimensions of temperament (Cloninger 1987)
    The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY

    Reply
  2. Fernando de Argentina's avatar Fernando de Argentina says:
    June 30, 2014 at 1:47 pm

    Instant Chemistry’s DNA Dating is a HOAX, another BIG FRAUD in the Online Dating Industry.
    They now offer the same as Basisnote, GenePartner, ScientificMatch and other proposals offering DNA matching which are only based on the T_shirt Experiment that only proved:
    normally cycling women (not pregnant and not taking contraceptive pills) are (temporarily) attracted by the perspiration scent of clothes used by men with a Major Histocompatibility Complex MHC more dissimilar to theirs,
    and not proved: women attracted by those men for long term mating with commitment.
    and
    2 Scientific Papers debunk their claims.
    1) “Human oestrus” Gangestad & Thornhill (2008)
    “Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle”
    2) “Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans?” Alvergne & Lummaa (2009)
    “.. whereas normally cycling women express a preference for MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) dissimilarity in mates, pill users prefer odours of MHC-SIMILAR men, indicating that pill use might eliminate adaptive preferences for genetic dissimilarity.”
    …………….
    “…., Roberts et al. attempted to eliminate these potential confounds by adopting a within-subject design in which women’s mate preferences were assessed before and after they began taking the pill. Women starting the pill showed a significant preference shift towards MHC SIMILARITY compared with three months before the pill was taken, a shift that was not observed in the control group of normally cycling women.”
    Please remember personality = temperament + character
    Personality is composed of two basic types of traits:
    traits that an individual acquires, dimensions of character;
    and
    traits with biological underpinnings, dimensions of temperament (Cloninger 1987)
    The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY

    Reply

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