The two agree to fake-date for a while.Ī Harvard researcher responds to Olive’s request for better equipment and plans to meet her at Stanford. Adam admits that his research funds are frozen and needs to convince Stanford that he’s not leaving to unfreeze them. As Adam and Claire talk it out later, Olive admits that she wants to keep the charade going until her friend and her ex are together. Before Olive can explain herself, Adam turns up and acts sweetly towards her, which finally convinces Olive’s friend that their relationship is genuine. Olive explains herself and runs away, embarrassed and hoping she’ll never see him again.Ī few days later, Olive’s friend interrogates her about her kiss. Known for being abrasive and mean, Adam demands an explanation. Desperate to prove she is over her ex, Olive kisses the first man she sees – Adam. Olive lies and says she has a date with someone, on that same night her friend sees her working in the lab. Naturally, her best friend is apprehensive. Two weeks later she accepts her offer to study at Stanford.Īlmost three years later, Olive is trying to convince her best friend that she is over her ex-boyfriend so her friend will date her ex.

His words convince her that grad school is the right path. Losing her mother to pancreatic cancer, Olive’s research focuses on pancreatic cancer.īefore her interview for PHD candidacy at Stanford, she meets Adam Carlsen, a fellow biologist. The Love Hypothesis follows Olive Smith, a 26-year-old graduate student of Biology at Stanford University. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope. Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive’s career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding…six-pack abs. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor–and well-known ass. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships–but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation. Being okay with ripping yourself to shreds, so the other person can stay whole.” Ali Hazelwood, The Love HypothesisĪs a third-year Ph.D. “I’m starting to wonder if this is what being in love is.

The love hypothesis about