TY - GEN
T1 - Online dating coaches' user evaluation strategies
AU - Zytko, Doug
AU - Grandhi, Sukeshini A.
AU - Jones, Quentin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Authors.
PY - 2016/5/7
Y1 - 2016/5/7
N2 - Users of online dating systems want to evaluate each other to predict who they will be attracted to in-person. Prior research into evaluation of online dating profiles has shown how users struggle to evaluate physical attractiveness and demographic traits because of deception. Yet we have little knowledge about successful user evaluation strategies, or evaluation of other traits known to influence attraction like personality. We addressed these gaps in knowledge through an interview study of professional online dating coaches (n=27) to extract their self-proclaimed successful user evaluation strategies for 3 categories of traits derived from attraction literature: physical appearance, demographics & values, and personality. We then interpreted these strategies through the lens of theories germane to attraction-Nisbett and Wilson's theory of introspection, Asch's theory of person perception, and Signaling theory.
AB - Users of online dating systems want to evaluate each other to predict who they will be attracted to in-person. Prior research into evaluation of online dating profiles has shown how users struggle to evaluate physical attractiveness and demographic traits because of deception. Yet we have little knowledge about successful user evaluation strategies, or evaluation of other traits known to influence attraction like personality. We addressed these gaps in knowledge through an interview study of professional online dating coaches (n=27) to extract their self-proclaimed successful user evaluation strategies for 3 categories of traits derived from attraction literature: physical appearance, demographics & values, and personality. We then interpreted these strategies through the lens of theories germane to attraction-Nisbett and Wilson's theory of introspection, Asch's theory of person perception, and Signaling theory.
KW - Impression formation
KW - Online dating
KW - Signaling theory
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U2 - 10.1145/2851581.2892482
DO - 10.1145/2851581.2892482
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85014613944
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1337
EP - 1343
BT - CHI EA 2016
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2016
Y2 - 7 May 2016 through 12 May 2016
ER -