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<span style="font-size:125%">'''References:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%">'''References:'''</span> | ||
* Zsok F, Haucke M, De Wit CY, Barelds DP. 2017. ''What kind of love is love at first sight? An empirical investigation.'' Personal Relationships. 24: 869-885. [[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pere.12218 Abstract]] [[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321133457_What_kind_of_love_is_love_at_first_sight_An_empirical_investigation FullText]] [[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/meet-catch-and-keep/201801/is-love-first-sight-real Summary]] | * Zsok F, Haucke M, De Wit CY, Barelds DP. 2017. ''What kind of love is love at first sight? An empirical investigation.'' Personal Relationships. 24: 869-885. [[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pere.12218 Abstract]] [[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321133457_What_kind_of_love_is_love_at_first_sight_An_empirical_investigation FullText]] [[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/meet-catch-and-keep/201801/is-love-first-sight-real Summary]] | ||
===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2; font-weight: normal;" id="">Only a man's looks and race matter in online dating - his personality does not</span>=== | |||
Researchers from the Michigan State University Department of Psychology and University of Maryland performed four experiments (total N = 2,679) evaluating how and why people 'swipe right' (try to match) to other daters online. Half of their experiment focused on college students, while the other half focused on middle-aged adults, averaging 35 years old. | |||
They found that a man's looks and race are the primary determinants of his ability to get matches online. Most people decided who to 'swipe right' did so based solely on these factors. | |||
Factors which are commonly discussed in the mainstream as being important for dating success such as personality, hobbies, relationship intentions (including whether the dater is just looking for sex or a relationship) objectively did not matter. Most decisions were made in less than 1 second. | |||
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* ''US researchers found attractiveness and race preferences were the top predictors of whether people would swipe left or right – and nearly twice as important as any other factors. '' | |||
* ''Other individual characteristics – such as personality and hobbies – were poor predictors of which way someone would swipe.'' | |||
* ''"We wanted to understand what makes someone want to swipe left or swipe right, and the process behind how they make those decisions."'' | |||
* ''"The first study focused on college students, while the second focused on older adults, averaging 35 years old."'' | |||
* ''"It's extremely eye-opening that people are willing to make decisions about whether or not they would like to get to another human being, in less than a second and based almost solely on the other person's looks," said William Chopik, an associate professor at Michigan State University's Department of Psychology and one of the two study authors.'' | |||
* ''"Also surprising was just how little everything beyond attractiveness and race mattered for swiping behaviour."'' | |||
* ''"Your personality didn't seem to matter, how open you were to hook-ups didn't matter, or even your style for how you approach relationships or if you were looking short or long-term didn't matter."'' | |||
* ''"Attractiveness and race were nearly double the influence from other things."'' | |||
<span style="font-size:125%">'''References:'''</span> | |||
* Chopik W & Johnson D. 2021. ''Modeling dating decisions in a mock swiping paradigm: An examination of participant and target characteristics.'' Journal of Research in Personality. 92: 104076. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104076 Abstract] [ | |||
* Chadwick J. 2021. ''Most people swipe right on dating apps based solely on looks and race, with the majority of decisions made in less than a SECOND, study finds.'' The Daily Mail. [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9338157/Dating-app-users-swipe-left-right-based-attractiveness-race.html News]] | |||
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