Dr. Ali "Victor" Binazir, Happiness Engineer

Love, Dating & Happiness at Harvard: Ali Binazir at the Harvard Alumni Association

I gave a 14min talk at a gathering of fellow Harvard alumni in Cambridge in June 2013. Hope you find it useful.

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Written by Ali Binazir MD MPhil on 7 May 2014

Dating Advice for Women: Why Do the Smartest Women Have the Toughest Time Dating?

What compels me to write this article today is a recent trip to the Harvard-Yale Game festivities, reminding me of how smart, educated women routinely sabotage their own chances for romantic fulfillment.

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Written by Ali Binazir MD MPhil on 17 February 2012

Dating Advice for Women – Trust Issues: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Hi Dr. Alex!  I’ve been forwarded many of your emails from a friend and I enjoy reading them. Now I have my own questions… Here goes nothing!  So, I’ve been dating this guy for a little over a year now. He works in the same building as I do that’s […]

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Written by Ali Binazir MD MPhil on 17 February 2012

Dating advice for women: Your third most popular question

Greetings from Berlin, one of the greenest cities I’ve ever visited.  My balcony overlooks the tree-filled back yard, and there’s intermittent sunshine coming in through a cloud-dappled sky. Here’s a letter from one of my readers Susan F. about the article ‘7 Things You Should Always Do On A Date’ […]

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Written by Ali Binazir MD MPhil on 17 February 2012

Tao of Dating Experiment: ‘Absence makes the heart wander’

The Phoenix has a new entry up.  I’m so proud of her!  She’s really putting the material to use.  It was my goal to present the material in the book in such a way that the readers would actually implement it, so it’s tremendously gratifying when someone does that.  My […]

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Written by Ali Binazir MD MPhil on 10 March 2009

The Tao of Dating Experiment: The Phoenix speaks

This is the first post by The Phoenix as part of The Tao of Dating Experiment.  We’ll be putting up her posts here; you can also follow her postings at taoofdatingexperiment.blogspot.com. Phoenix –noun 1. a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian […]

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Written by Ali Binazir MD MPhil on 17 February 2012

Dating for Women: Fulfillment, commitment, exclusivity and societal norms

This is a reader’s response to the article “How to decipher what men really mean: principles for handling casual relationships.” If you haven’t read it yet, no big deal, but it’s available via the newsletter, which you can subscribe to in the left-hand box over there  <– Dear Dr. Benzer, […]

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Written by Ali Binazir MD MPhil on 17 February 2009