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Category Archives: Dating
Hidden Brain — Hook-up Culture
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Episode 61: Just Sex
Sliding vs. Deciding– Scott Stanley
A major feature of Professor Scott Stanley’s work on commitment in marriage and issues of cohabitation and marriage is his idea of “sliding vs. deciding.” He has given many talks on this topic. Here is his talk in 2016. It is about an hour, but very informative.
Online Dating Resources
There are many sources about online dating. Here are some that may be useful. Some of these articles are only available by logging into the U of Illinois Library system.
The online dating romance scam: causes and consequences of victimhood
“Where Have All the Good Men Gone?” Gendered Interactions in Online Dating
An exploration of online communication in dating relationships:
The impact of cyber dating harassment on self-esteem and academic engagement
Profile as promise: A framework for conceptualizing veracity in online dating self-presentations
Do’s and don’ts of online Dating– Dr. Phil
eHarmony: do’s and don’ts of email in online dating
Self-presentation and Impression Formation through Photographs in an LGBT Online Dating Community
What you need to know before you try online dating.
Premarital Experiences & Marital Quality
In this report, researchers consider the following questions:
1. What happens when Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas? How do our past experiences, especially when it comes to love, sex, and children,linked to our future marital quality?
2. Some couples slide through major relationship transitions, while others make intentional decisions about moving through them. What does this mean for the couples?
3. How do choices about weddings say something about the quality of marriages?
Online Dating Experiments– Science or Deception?
Okcupid, an online dating site, just posted an explanation of how they “experiment” with their users to “test” their algorithm. See Experiment #3 about how people were matched, but didn’t really match. Is this really science? Is this a violation of ethical behavior? How would you feel if you were the “subject” in this experiment? What other ways could have Christian Rudder answered this question besides deception? In this interview, TLDR reporters ask questions about the ethics of this “experiment.”