Gender Differences in Online Dating: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Literature Review

Abramova, Olga; Baumann, Annika; Krasnova, Hanna; Buxmann, Peter

doi:10.1109/hicss.2016.481

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“…Similarly, [1] found that men were more likely than women to use Tinder for casual sex. This is in line with evolutionary psychological studies of online dating [4] and of gender differences in social network use [6]. In addition to cultural factors, a successful evolutionary explanation of sex differences in self-presentation generally is the sexual strategies theory of Buss and Schmitt [7].…”

Section: Introduction and Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 57%

“…H1 was not supported: we found no significant difference between numbers of photos uploaded by women and men, with the trend even being in the opposite direction to the prediction. This is in contrast to studies of other social media such as Facebook in which female users typically upload many more photos than male users [4]. This discrepancy may be because Tinder initially asks users to upload a maximum of only six photos when they register with the app.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…In a uses and gratifications study, [1] showed that Casual Sex was just one of several classes of motivations for using Tinder, while Love was more common; and while 46% of users had gone on a date with a Tinder match, only 19% had taken part in a one-night stand with a match. It is thus reasonable to suppose that patterns of gender differences found in other online dating apps and sites (reviewed in [4]) will also apply to Tinder. In particular, theory predicts differences in the gender mix of people who use the site for short-term and long-term mating purposes, as well as differences in the strategies that different genders use to attract a mate.…”

Section: Introduction and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Looking for the Right Swipe: Gender Differences in Self-Presentation on Tinder Profiles

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2019

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Tinder has become a popular online dating tool for people looking for either short- or long-term relationships. In this study we build on existing research on gender differences in the motivations of Tinder users, by analyzing gender differences in self-presentation. We predicted that women would try to attract men to right-swipe (i.e., potentially match) their profiles through largely visual means; while men would put more emphasis on showing off their skills and interests. In a sample of 300 randomly obtained Tinder profiles (150 heterosexual females and 150 heterosexual males), half from Colombia and half from the USA, we found mixed support for our hypotheses. There was no significant difference between numbers of photos uploaded by women and men, but certain types of photos were unique to one gender. Links to other social networks did not differ much between genders; however, men tended to include more textual information in their profiles.

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“…Unfortunately, we do not have comparable data from adults in the general population. Subscribing to online dating sites attracts such sexual demands from men, who report being more interested in sexual relationships, while women subscribers are more interested in long-term romantic relationships (Abramova, Baumann, Krasnova, & Buxmann, 2016;Netimperative, 2012). It is unclear whether our subjects were aware of the risks associated with online dating (Baumgartner et al, 2010;Couch, Liamputtong, & Pitts, 2012), but other studies report that the risk of being alone is perceived as greater than the risk of deceit or disappointment by people with ID and their caretakers (Löfgren-Mårtenson, 2008;Löfgren-Mårtenson et al, 2015;Seale, 2014).…”

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From solitude to solicitation: How people with intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder use the internet

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“…In online dating, there are significant gender differences in terms of attribute preference, self-presentation and interaction [47]. Users usually have a certain preference for mates' age or height.…”

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Gender-specific preference in online dating

2019

EPJ Data Sci.

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In this paper, to reveal the differences of gender-specific preference and the factors affecting potential mate choice in online dating, we analyze the users' behavioral data of a large online dating site in China. We find that for women, network measures of popularity and activity of the men they contact are significantly positively associated with their messaging behaviors, while for men only the network measures of popularity of the women they contact are significantly positively associated with their messaging behaviors. Secondly, when women send messages to men, they pay attention to not only whether men's attributes meet their own requirements for mate choice, but also whether their own attributes meet men's requirements, while when men send messages to women, they only pay attention to whether women's attributes meet their own requirements. Thirdly, compared with men, women attach great importance to the socioeconomic status of potential partners and their own socioeconomic status will affect their enthusiasm for interaction with potential mates. Further, we use the ensemble learning classification methods to rank the importance of factors predicting messaging behaviors, and find that the centrality indices of users are the most important factors. Finally, by correlation analysis we find that men and women show different strategic behaviors when sending messages. Compared with men, for women sending messages, there is a stronger positive correlation between the centrality indices of women and men, and more women tend to send messages to people more popular than themselves. These results have implications for understanding gender-specific preference in online dating further and designing better recommendation engines for potential dates. The research also suggests new avenues for data-driven research on stable matching and strategic behavior combined with game theory.

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Gender Differences in Online Dating: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Literature Review

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Cited by 51 publications

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Looking for the Right Swipe: Gender Differences in Self-Presentation on Tinder Profiles

Looking for the Right Swipe: Gender Differences in Self-Presentation on Tinder Profiles

From solitude to solicitation: How people with intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder use the internet

Gender-specific preference in online dating

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