Let's Get Serious: MIT Sloan's Joshua Ackerman applies an evolutionary economic perspective to how and when men and women express commitment in relationships

Joshua Ackerman (MIT Sloan School of Management) and his colleagues, Vladas Griskevicius (University of Minnesota) and Norman Li (SMU), show that while people overwhelmingly believe that women are more likely to express love first in relationships, it is men who more often make the first move in confessing love.