Assortative (online) dating: Insights into partner choice from an experimental dating app

Ranzini, Giulia; Rosenbaum, Judith E.; Tybur, Joshua M.

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2021.107039

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“…These protective factors relate to physical, personality, communicative, and interactive characteristics. For instance, we found that physical attractiveness acted as a protective factor in ghosting, which would align with Ranzini et al’s (2022) findings who found that attractiveness is the most important factor in partner choice on a dating app but the discussion around protective factors on the whole was a novel contribution to this field of research. While these factors may not eradicate the chances of ghosting or being ghosted, they do reduce the likelihood of either performing or being the recipient of such behavior.…”

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“I expect it as part of the kind of package deal when you sign up to these things”—Motivations and experiences of ghosting.

Dean Marshall,

O'Shea,

Akhtar

et al. 2024

Psychology of Popular Media

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

“I expect it as part of the kind of package deal when you sign up to these things”—Motivations and experiences of ghosting.

Dean Marshall,

O'Shea,

Akhtar

et al. 2024

Psychology of Popular Media

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“…In psychology, assortative mating (AM) refers to the tendency of two partners' personal characteristics to be matched in a systematic manner, usually in the form of similarity (homogamy) (Luo, 2017). Ranzini et al (2022) examined whether principles of assortative mating apply to dating apps. Their results pointed to educational assortativity for higher-educated participants (those with higher education seek a partner also with higher education).…”

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construction of matches in dating platforms

Pettersen

Døving

2023

NJSTS

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Dating platforms play the role of the traditional village matchmaker when they suggest potential partners that would be a good fit (‘match’). This paper reports from an in-depth study of the matching machinery of four dating platforms using a recommendation system based on a matchmaker model to suggest matches. While content-based recommendation systems form suggestions based on the users’ behaviour and interaction patterns, a matchmaker model uses information about the user to form recommendations. In the matchmaker model, what the IT system characterises as the ideal formation and a ‘good match’ is revealed. By using the reverse-engineering method, we find that of the four platforms investigated, three construct and form matches based on the couple’s degree of similarities along psychological and personal aspects, while one platform is based on a ‘the more similar along all kinds of axes, the better’-model. None of the platforms employs the anthropological hypergamy principle, which refers to the tendency of women to choose partners of similar or higher social status, while men do the opposite, into its matching account. Match value, which we conceptualise as the match score assigned by the platforms to couples, is a key component in the platforms’ matching machinery. Match value is a numeric value presented as an objective and scientific score, representing the degree of how well two persons ‘fit’ together. The platforms reduce individuals and relationships to a numeric value based on a psychological personality model, which ignores the person’s wider social network, class and context. The ranked order of matches does not consequently correspond with the match value, which suggests that the platforms provide benefits for paying members.

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“…BlackPeopleMeet.com, ChristianMingle.com, FarmersOnly.com). Socially networked dating processes facilitate consumers’ efforts to rein-in or screen-out potential romantic partners based on relative handfuls of similar characteristics (Hitsch et al , 2010a; Lee, 2016; Neyt et al , 2020; Ranzini et al , 2022).…”

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Investigating assortative mating processes inside Internet-dating-service settings

Schibik

Strutton

Thompson

2022

JSM

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate assortative mating processes inside Internet-dating-service settings. Unattached consumers traditionally sought to satisfy their need for love through conventional search processes, including old-fashioned match-making. That was then, this is now; dozens of internet-mediated dating websites promising romantic-love-matches currently operate internationally. These dating services cultivate dating-exchanges by offering new-fashioned match-making processes. Despite these trends, theoretical and practical questions related to how and why dating services marketers might induce superior romantic exchanges between customers by managing assortative mating processes remain unanswered until now. Design/methodology/approach A survey-based approach was used to test hypotheses. Pretests were conducted to develop reliable measures of assortative mating propensity. Seven subconstructs of assortative mating were identified by analyzing data from a representative sample. The measurement model was validated before hypotheses testing. The focal assortative mating construct was measured formatively; assortative mating subdimensions functioned as indicators. The model was tested by structural equation modeling. Findings Assortative mating processes facilitated superior preference-selection outcomes for individuals seeking consumer-to-consumer romantic relationships inside internet-mediated service settings. Insights were generated about how and why assortative mating processes exercised positive effects on consumers’ attitudes toward online dating and about how dating services marketers might leverage assortative mating tendencies to benefit consumers. Originality/value A novel concept was introduced to the services marketing literature, as were several theoretical implications. The study simultaneously measured consumers’ propensities to engage in assortative mating and captured the effects of various physical/behavioral consumer characteristics. This study develops new and practical insights about how dating service marketers could manage the effects of assortative mating processes.

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Assortative (online) dating: Insights into partner choice from an experimental dating app

Cited by 18 publications

References 45 publications

“I expect it as part of the kind of package deal when you sign up to these things”—Motivations and experiences of ghosting.

“I expect it as part of the kind of package deal when you sign up to these things”—Motivations and experiences of ghosting.

construction of matches in dating platforms

Investigating assortative mating processes inside Internet-dating-service settings

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