Modeling dating decisions in a mock swiping paradigm: An examination of participant and target characteristics |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States;2. Departments of Psychology and Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States;1. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA;2. Department of Psychology, Aberystwyth University, Wales, United Kingdom;3. Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania, USA;4. Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, USA;5. Division of Liberal Arts, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, USA;1. Department of Economics and CEBI, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;2. Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark;3. Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA;4. Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark;5. TrygFonden’s Centre for Child Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark;1. Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Germany;2. Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Switzerland;3. Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, United States |
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| Abstract: | New online dating platforms, such as Tinder, are dramatically changing the context in which people seek romantic relationships. In these platforms, users select partners they are willing to start a conversation with by “swiping” on them. These platforms provide exciting possibilities for applying new methods to test how user (e.g., demographic, personality) and target/partner (e.g., attractiveness, race) factors predict attraction. Across four laboratory studies (total N = 2,679), target physical attractiveness and target race were the largest predictors of decisions in this hypothetical dating context, whereas user individual difference traits were poor predictors. The current studies provide substantive information about the factors that predict romantic attraction in the context of mobile-based dating applications. |
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| Keywords: | Tinder Dating decisions Individual differences Mating behavior Race Attraction |
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