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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Online dating"”.
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Online dating applications and the Uses and Gratifications Theory
<p>Online dating has become an intricate part of today’s society, especially for the younger generation. Now, more than ever, it is accessible by the click of a button because online dating has gone through an evolution and is now readily available on a person’s mobile device. The most popular …
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The Online Dating Preferences of Chinese American Older Adults
… there has been a dramatic increase in the use of online dating websites among adults over age 50. Nevertheless, samples collected in existing literature are mainly centered on White/Caucasian Americans. Furthermore, the only theoretical guide has been sexual strategies theory. This study fills the …
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Dating_MissRepresentation.Com: Black Women's Lived Love-Hate Relationship With Online Dating
<p>The increased use of online dating sites has further encouraged corporations’ attempts to capitalize on these mate-seeking trends. Match.com, eHarmony, and OkCupid are primary competitors in a growing market of individuals seeking out potential romantic partners. They offer several mainstream …
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Romantic regressions : an analysis of behavior in online dating systems
Online personal advertisements have shed their stigma as matchmakers for the awkward to claim a prominent role in the social lives of millions of people. Web sites for online dating allow users to post lengthy personal ads, including text and photos; search the database of users for potential …
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An examination of attribute trade and weight stigma in online dating
… consequences, but its impact in the contemporary online dating arena is largely unexplored. Therefore, Study 1 of this project examined who experiences weight stigma in online dating and what factors predicted weight stigma. It was hypothesized that a) women would be more likely than men to …
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Impression formation in the information age : a study and design for online dating
… logging on to find romantic partners. While the online dating industry advertises its success citing the large number of registered users, other evidence indicates broad dissatisfaction: the analysis of website behavior reveals that most users are inactive and experienced online daters state a …
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Perceptions of Stigma in Online Dating Narratives: Implications for Marriage and Family Therapists
Despite increased usage of online dating platforms, perceptions of meeting partners online remain generally stigmatized. When people internalize stigmatized online dating narratives as self-stigma, there are implications for psychological wellbeing and relational health. In the current study, …
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Curating Connection: How Millennial Women Navigate Self-Presentation, Intimacy, and Rejection in Online Dating
… self-presentation, intimacy, and rejection in online dating. Grounded in social penetration theory and the hyperpersonal model, it explores the tension between authenticity and desirability in profile curation, the transition from superficial to deeper intimacy, and the cultivation of …
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Linguistic expression and perception of personality in online dating texts and their effect on attraction
Online daters report difficulties, frustration and anxiety in conveying their desired impression of themselves and from their lack of ability in perceiving another dater’s personality accurately. There is a lack of research on how expression of personality traits in profiles impacts on perception …
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"Here's me in a nutshell": the textual performance of self in male online dating profiles
Online dating has fast become an acceptable avenue through which to pursue romantic partners in the United States. Approximately one it ten American internet-using adults--16 million people--have personally visited dating websites (Madden & Lenhart 2006). Previous literature about online dating …
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Unmasking the veil : the exploration of deceptive self-presentation behaviors highlighted through online dating profiles
… individuals' experiences with deception in dating applications and focuses on the sense-making of the individuals who have experienced deception firsthand. A major aim of this study was to pinpoint the common deceptive tactics used on Tinder and Hinge and the motivations for users to …
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"It's exhausting:" A narrative exploration of black millennials experiences with online dating
… millennials and their use of social media and dating apps to form relationships. There is existing research on the state of Black marriage rates and success in the United States and existing research on the various intersections of technology and its usage by various generations and …
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The effects of self-monitoring and appropriated racial oppression on online dating self-presentation for multiracial individuals
… Links have also been demonstrated between online dating and engagement in self-monitoring. The purpose of this study was to examine a model for how individuals present themselves on ethnicityspecific and non-ethnicity-specific online dating platforms and how this self-presentation is …
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Beautiful People Are Better, at Least Online: Associations Between Photo Attractiveness and Text Attractiveness in Women's Online Dating Profiles
… "Do looks matter?" within the context of online dating and framed itself using cursory research performed by Brand and colleagues (2012). Good Genes Theory, Halo Effect, Physical Attractiveness Stereotype, and Social Information Procession theory were also used to explore what function …
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Modality switching in online dating: identifying the communicative factors that make the transition from an online to an offline relationship more or less successful
… one of the most significant turning points in online dating occurs when partners decide to meet face-to-face (FtF) for the first time. Existing theory proposes that the affordances of the Internet can lead people to develop overly positive impressions of those they meet online, which could …
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Perceptions of female gender norm violations: The case of occupation and body hair
… norms and/or occupational norms as part of her online dating profile. Two hundred eighty participants were asked to read one of four online dating profiles where the occupation was either kindergarten teacher or mechanic (e.g., occupational norm maintained or violated) and shaving products were …
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Understanding User Trust Processes in Internet Applications
… to be inconsistent when deciding what to trust online. They are cautious in onlinedating platforms but are often naive and careless when acessing online services. We conductedtwo user studies to better understand this difference: one on evaluating online dating profiles andanother on evaluating …
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Modern technological environments and individual differences in attractiveness perceptions from physical characteristics
… ‘Coolidge-like’ effects observed in human men. Online environments facilitate access to many novel social, romantic, and sexual partners, potentially generating what social psychologists refer to as an ‘assessment mindset’, where a large pool of online dating options orient daters towards novel …
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Pandemic Partnering: COVID-19's Impact on College Students' Dating Practices
… seeks to explore if and how college students' dating practices have changed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Through eight focus group interviews (n=51), participants discussed their dating practices, use of online dating platforms, and navigation of health and safety protocols. A thematic analysis …
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