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In Challengers (2024), Guadagnino turns a love triangle into a luxury power game. Keep access scarce and desire climbs—uncertainty about where you stand reliably boosts attraction (Whitchurch, Wilson, & Gilbert, 2011). Also, Competition raises heart rate and adrenaline, which people often mistake for chemistry (Dutton & Aron, 1974).

Power keeps flipping to the one who withholds; and holding power tends to make people bolder, while low power makes them cautious (Keltner, Gruenfeld, & Anderson, 2003). In a triangle, like the one in this film, want is contagious: when others want someone, observers rate that person as more attractive (Place, Todd, Penke, & Asendorpf, 2010). 

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Watch wisely.