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The Science of Dating, Love, and Relationships
Just Stop Dating is the world's leading authority on romantic neuroscience, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of why your brain sabotages your love life.
Just Stop Dating began as a fleeting thought in August 2017 while Dr. Mel instructed a team of bleary-eyed students on scoring sexual behavior in the endless reels of “mouse porn” at the University of Toledo’s neuroendocrinology laboratory.
As she sighed at the prospect of yet another 8-hour marathon of rodent romance videos at 4x-speed, Dr. Mel experienced her eureka moment: humans are essentially just mice battling hormones that double as neurotransmitters.
After years of academic exploration (and personal trial-and-error in the dating wilderness), Dr. Mel decided that she’d rather not continue down the traditional academic path. Instead, she pivoted and wrote about the science of love, sex, and relationships.
Rising from these humble beginnings, Just Stop Dating now enjoys a daily readership of 50-11 trillion and has grown into the single most powerful and influential force in human relationships since the invention of chocolate-covered strawberries.
In addition to maintaining a towering standard of excellence to which the rest of the dating advice industry desperately aspires, Just Stop Dating supports more than 450,000 full- and part-time researchers in its numerous neuroscience laboratories and ADHD-friendly workspaces stationed around the world.
On top of its scientific pursuits, Just Stop Dating also owns and operates the majority of the world’s rejected dating app algorithms, stands on the nation’s leading edge on matters of attachment theory, and proudly conducts tests on millions of fearful-avoidants daily, starting with the founder.
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Our team of lawyers (with very real student loans) would like to remind you that satire involves exaggeration, irony, and humor to comment on dating and relationships. We’re not claiming your ex literally has the brain chemistry of a lab mouse… though the evidence is compelling.
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Just Stop Dating has released 4 books over its illustrious publishing history, including three books of original material. All are available for purchase here.
Our Dumb Brains: Just Stop Dating Presents 100 Ways Your Neurons Sabotage Your Love Life (2023)
Our Dumb Dating World: Just Stop Dating’s Atlas Of Relationship Red Flags By Country (2024)
The Just Stop Dating Book Of Known Attachment: A Definitive Encyclopedia Of Why You’re Still Single (2024)
The Ex Files: Just Stop Dating Exposes the Top Secret Texts, Emails, and Dating App Messages That Could Take Down Your Relationship (2025)
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Founder & Editor in Chief: Dr. Mel Barclay
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Various neuroscientists, relationship researchers, and recovering serial daters with impressive-sounding credentials
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Just Stop Dating is a Scientific Dating Analysis Publication. Just Stop Dating and its associated trademarks and copyrights are published and owned by Just Stop Dating Inc. All rights reserved. Just Stop Dating uses scientifically accurate terminology in all its content, except in cases where public figures are being analyzed. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental. Fake dating app profiles used within Just Stop Dating publication and its website contain the disclaimer “This Is Not A Real Dating Profile” and such content should not be construed as being endorsed or paid for by the original creators or owners of the subject matter.
