Effects of race, visual anonymity, and social category salience on online dating outcomes

Alhabash, Saleem; Hales, Kayla D.; Baek, Jong Hwan; Oh, Hyun Jung

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.02.016

Cited by 26 publications

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“…Similar to other forms of online-based interactions, Tinder lacks the majority of non-verbal communicative cues, leading individuals to focus on elements such as users' pictures or names, features that more commonly reveal a person's ethnic background, to determine their degree of similarity (Alhabash, Hales, Baek, & Oh, 2014;Hitsch, Hortaçsu, & Ariely, 2010). This raises the question what happens when people are presented with a Tinder profile of someone outside their own ethnic group.…”

Section: Dating In the Age Of Tindermentioning

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It’s a match (?): Tinder usage and attitudes toward interracial dating

Ranzini

Rosenbaum

2020

Communication Research Reports

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The increased popularity of dating apps such as Tinder coupled with the rise in interracial marriages form the foundation of this study which explores the role played by visual and cultural cues in people's dating decisions. Using a within-group 2*3 experimental design (N = 331) among a convenience sample of adults in the Netherlands, this study provides insight into how the ethnicity associated with profile pictures and names impact the evaluation of a potential date on Tinder. Overall, respondents ranked Caucasian-looking Tinder users as more attractive and more likely to be their date of choice. Interestingly, this finding did not hold when narrowed down to respondents identifying as Western-European only: They did not prefer Caucasian-looking or sounding profiles. Perceived attractiveness was shown to partially mediate the choice of a Caucasian-looking profile, regardless of name.

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Section: Dating In the Age Of Tindermentioning

confidence: 99%

It’s a match (?): Tinder usage and attitudes toward interracial dating

Ranzini

Rosenbaum

2020

Communication Research Reports

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“…Social identity theory, proposed by Turner (1979, 1986), posits that people have a social identity (in addition to a personal identity), constituted from group memberships, that affects their self-concept. Social identity, likewise, regulates online identity and outcomes from social media (Akhilesh, Sindhuja, & Kahai, 2013;Alhabash, Hales, Baek, & Oh, 2014) and virtual contexts (Behm-Morawitz & Schipper, 2015;Boellstorff, 2008). Individuals are motivated, both online and offline, to maintain a positive social identity, which is derived from advantageous comparisons made between their ingroup and outgroup (i.e., the comparison focuses on the ingroup's positive identifiers and the outgroup's negative identifiers).…”

Section: Social Identity Theory In An Interactive Media Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effects of virtual racial embodiment in a gaming app on reducing prejudice

Behm-Morawitz

Pennell

Speno

2016

Communication Monographs

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This research experimentally examined the effectiveness of the use of virtual racial embodiment in a digital gaming application for reducing bias against a non-dominant group. The findings of this study advance theory and have practical implications for the design of immersive diversity initiatives. We tested avatar creation and the gaming app as a new modality for stimulating perspective-taking. In addition, we explored how sex and race intersect in virtual embodiment and stereotyping. Results showed that creating and embodying a Black avatar produced more favorable beliefs about African American men, but not African American women, and greater support for "pro-minority" policies in comparison to creating and playing a White avatar. Avatar liking was a significant moderator, but self-presence had no effect.

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“…Defendant race was manipulated by including a color photograph [matched in a pilot study (N = 30) on perceived age, likeability, and attractiveness] of the defendant, along with varying his name (Charles Smith for the White defendant and Jamaal Washington for the Black defendant) to strengthen our race manipulation. Previous research has used names to manipulate race (e.g., Bertrand and Mullainathan, 2004;Widner and Chicoine, 2011;Alhabash et al, 2014), as names can reinforce racial stereotypes and elicit biased judgments (Bodenhausen and Wyer, 1985;Watson et al, 2011;Garcia and Abascal, 2016). In half of the transcripts, an expert witness specializing in confession research testified for the Defense.…”

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The Interactive Effects of Race and Expert Testimony on Jurors’ Perceptions of Recanted Confessions

Ewanation

Maeder

2021

Front. Psychol.

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We examined the effect of defendant race and expert testimony on jurors’ perceptions of recanted confessions. Participants (591 jury-eligible community members) read a first-degree murder trial transcript in which defendant race (Black/White) and expert testimony (present/absent) were manipulated. They provided verdicts and answered questions regarding the confession and expert testimony. When examining the full sample, we observed no significant main effects or interactions of defendant race or expert testimony. When exclusively examining White participants, we observed a significant interaction between expert testimony and defendant race on verdicts. When the defendant was White, there was no significant effect of expert testimony, but when the defendant was Black, jurors were significantly more likely to acquit when given expert testimony. These findings support the watchdog hypothesis, such that White jurors are more receptive to legally relevant evidence when the defendant is Black.

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Effects of race, visual anonymity, and social category salience on online dating outcomes

Cited by 26 publications

References 35 publications

It’s a match (?): Tinder usage and attitudes toward interracial dating

It’s a match (?): Tinder usage and attitudes toward interracial dating

The effects of virtual racial embodiment in a gaming app on reducing prejudice

The Interactive Effects of Race and Expert Testimony on Jurors’ Perceptions of Recanted Confessions

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