Tinder and Human Nature: Just How and just why Tinder Works “Chemistry” is not just the inexplicable adrenaline-charged experience when two would-be devotee see. It’s the igniter, the catalyst for all forms of competitive, thrilling, and desirous affairs. I suggest that there have been two different chemistry: passionate and platonic. Although missing the one-two punch of enchanting chemistry, platonic chemistry was a similarly-powerful relational phenomenon.