Gender and courtship entitlement: Responses to personal ads

Goode, Erich

doi:10.1007/bf01544293

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“…Research in the 1990s uncovered continuity with the cultural script of the previous decade in terms of dating preferences. Young men valued physical attractiveness, submissiveness, and vulnerability in women dating partners, while young women preferred dominant and financially successful men partners (Goode 1996;Rainville and Gallagher 1990;Smith et al 1990). When forced to choose between a romantic relationship and another life goal (e.g., finance, education, physical fitness), research found that similar number of men and women chose the relationship rather than the life goal (75% of the women and 71% of the men), but consistent with gender stereotypes, women rated relationships as more important than men did, whereas men were more likely to give priority to the goals of "being financially well-off" or "owning one's own home" (Hammersla and Frease-McMahan 1990).…”

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Has Dating Become More Egalitarian? A 35 Year Review Using Sex Roles

2011

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In this selective review, we examined research on heterosexual dating published in Sex Roles since its inception to determine if dating practices have become more egalitarian over the past 35 years. An analysis of current best-selling dating advice books suggests that gender roles continue to be institutionalized in cultural scripts. A sexual scripts framework was used to categorize research findings to determine if the empirical evidence confirmed the durability of gender roles over time or revealed that dating has become less gendertyped. Research in Sex Roles suggests that heterosexual dating among young adults in the U. S. remains highly gender-typed in terms of cultural scripts (e.g., beliefs, ideals, and expectations), as well as interpersonal scripts (e.g., actual interpersonal emotions, interpersonal behaviors, or behaviors aimed at achieving or signaling a partner). Some variability was observed in interpersonal scripts in terms of occasional initiation of dates by women, for instance, but was not sufficiently widely used to challenge the dominant script. Functional reasons for the persistence of gender stereotypes in dating are presented. In addition, a friendship script is proposed as an alternative, egalitarian model of dating that might fulfill the same functions.

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Section: Cultural Scriptsmentioning

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Has Dating Become More Egalitarian? A 35 Year Review Using Sex Roles

2011

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“…Specifically, it seems possible that the particular processes involved in evaluating a potential dating partner determine what factors individuals consider important in a potential mate and whether or not they like a particular potential partner. If individuals engage in a deliberate validation of whether their subjectively desired characteristics are present or absent in a potential partner stated mating preferences should have a strong impact on partner evaluations (e.g., Goode, 1996;Rajecki et al, 1991). In this case, people may integrate different kinds of information in their evaluations, including facial attractiveness and self-described ambition.…”

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I think I like you: Spontaneous and deliberate evaluations of potential romantic partners in an online dating context

Sritharan

Heilpern

Wilbur

et al. 2009

Euro J Social Psych

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The present research examined processes of impression formation within an online dating context. Across two studies, female participants formed impressions of a potential partner based on an online dating profile containing information about the target's facial attractiveness and self-described ambition. Afterwards, deliberate evaluations of the target were assessed with a self-report measure and spontaneous evaluations were measured with an affective priming task. The results showed that deliberate evaluations varied as a function of both self-described ambition and facial attractiveness. In contrast, spontaneous evaluations varied only as a function of facial attractiveness. Experiment 2 further showed that these effects were independent of the order in which the two types of information had been encoded. The results are discussed in terms of associative and propositional processes, and the conditions under which these processes can lead to conflicting evaluations of the same potential romantic partner. Copyright # 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Over the past decade, online dating has dramatically risen in popularity, with over 40 million unique visitors to dating websites in the United States (Mulrine, 2003), and more than 800 different websites currently in existence (Marsan, 2008). In the United States alone, approximately 7 million online dating site users have gone on to meet a fellow user face-to-face and 3 million individuals have formed long-term romantic relationships with someone they met on the internet (Boyd, 2007). This rise in popularity of online dating has been simultaneously linked with a corresponding reduction in the stigma historically associated with meeting romantic partners through the internet. A survey commissioned by the Pew Internet and American Life Project (2006) found that 61 per cent of respondents disagreed with the view that online daters are desperate. Evidently, online dating is now more popular and socially acceptable than it has ever been, and this trend is likely to continue.The users of online dating websites, like any mating pool, are individuals possessing varying levels of attributes that influence their interpersonal likeability as a potential mate. Thus, a pertinent question arises: What factors influence the likeability of potential romantic partners in an online dating context? By examining a dataset from a major online dating site, Hitsch, Hortaçsu, and Ariely (2005) determined that physical attractiveness was a significant predictor of receiving messages from other users of the site for both men and women. Furthermore, the researchers found that women were more likely to contact men with higher annual incomes and men seeking long-term relationships. Similarly, Evans and Brase (2007) found that after examining an online dating profile of an opposite-sex individual, women tended to discuss the target's ambitiousness, whereas men tended to comment on the target's attractiveness when asked open-ended questions about the target in the dating profile.

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“…Sitton e Blanchard (1995) colocaram dois anúncios, um descrevendo uma mulher com excesso de peso (8 respostas) e outro uma mulher em processo de recuperação de uma dependência química (30 respostas). Noutro estudo do mesmo tipo (Goode, 1996) foram colocados quatro anúncios fictícios que descreviam uma bonita empregada de mesa (668 respostas), uma advogada de aspecto normal (240 respostas), um advogado de aspecto normal (64 respostas) e um belo condutor de táxi (15 respostas). Os resultados destas investigações parecem indicar que, enquanto que os respondentes aos anúncios femininos claramente são atraídos pelo aspecto físico das supostas anunciantes, as mulheres que responderam aos anúncios masculinos parecem estar mais à procura de estatuto.…”

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“…Das diferenças entre homens e mulheres heterossexuais, evidenciou-se um padrão em que mulheres tendem a oferecer atractividade física e idade jovem e a procurar estabilidade financeira e estatuto, e em que homens procuram atracção física e oferecem estabilidade financeira e idade superior (Cameron, Oskamp & Sparks, 1977;Deaux & Hanna, 1984;Goode, 1996;Harrison & Said, 1977;Koestner & Wheeler, 1988;Neto, 2005;Rajecki, Bledsoe & Rasmussen, 1991;Sitton & Blanchard, 1995;Willis & Carlson, 2004).…”

Section: Anúncios Pessoais Na Era Vihunclassified

A vida sexual dos anúncios pessoais: Uma revisão da literatura

Nodin¹

2012

Análise Psicológica

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Gender and courtship entitlement: Responses to personal ads

Cited by 56 publications

References 26 publications

Has Dating Become More Egalitarian? A 35 Year Review Using Sex Roles

Has Dating Become More Egalitarian? A 35 Year Review Using Sex Roles

I think I like you: Spontaneous and deliberate evaluations of potential romantic partners in an online dating context

A vida sexual dos anúncios pessoais: Uma revisão da literatura

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