Testing Media Richness Theory in the New Media: the Effects of Cues, Feedback, and Task Equivocality
Information Systems Research
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Homophily in online dating: when do you like someone like yourself?
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Sounds good to me: effects of photo and voice profiles on gaming partner choice
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Cyberspace Romance: The Psychology of Online Relationships
Cyberspace Romance: The Psychology of Online Relationships
The truth about lying in online dating profiles
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Making sense of strangers' expertise from signals in digital artifacts
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Thirtyyears after Harrison and Saeed: Does the medium make the message?
Computers in Human Behavior
Evaluating truthfulness of modifiers attached to web entity names
WAIM'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Web-age information management
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Social network analysis of an online dating network
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
Not just a wink and smile: an analysis of user-defined success in online dating
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
Hustling online: understanding consolidated facebook use in an informal settlement in Nairobi
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Online dating systems play a prominent role in the social lives of millions of their users, but little research has considered how users perceive one another through their personal profiles. We examined how users perceive attractiveness in online dating profiles, which provide their first exposure to a potential partner. Participants rated whole profiles and profile components on such qualities as how attractive, extraverted, and genuine and trustworthy they appeared. As past research in the psychology of attraction would suggest, the attractiveness and other qualities of the photograph were the strongest predictors of whole profile attractiveness, but they were not alone: the free-text component also played an important role in predicting overall attractiveness. In turn, numerous other qualities predicted the attractiveness ratings of photos and free-text components, albeit in different ways for men and women. The fixed-choice elements of a profile, however, were unrelated to attractiveness.