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What Ashley Madison Says About Modern Love

Clip: 8/25/2015 | 7m 19sVideo has Closed Captions

How do Ashley Madison, dating sites, and phone apps affect how we build relationships.

The radioactive mushroom cloud of marital unhappiness set off by the hacking of adultery website Ashley Madison keeps growing. But what does the website and its popularity say about modern marriages? And how do Ashley Madison, dating websites, and smartphone apps affect how we build relationships? Tonight, we’ll hear from Eli Finkel, a professor of social psychology at Northwestern University.

08/25/2015 | Rating NR

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