Assessing attractiveness in online dating profiles Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4788633, abstract = {Online dating systems play a prominent role in the social lives of millions of their users, but little research has considered how users perceive one another through their personal profiles. We examined how users perceive attractiveness in online dating profiles, which provide their first exposure to a potential partner. Participants rated whole profiles and profile components on such qualities as how attractive, extraverted, and genuine and trustworthy they appeared. As past research in the psychology of attraction would suggest, the attractiveness and other qualities of the photograph were the strongest predictors of whole profile attractiveness, but they were not alone: the free-text component also played an important role in predicting overall attractiveness. In turn, numerous other qualities predicted the attractiveness ratings of photos and free-text components, albeit in different ways for men and women. The fixed-choice elements of a profile, however, were unrelated to attractiveness.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Fiore, Andrew T. and Taylor, Lindsay S. and Mendelsohn, G. A. and Hearst, Marti}, booktitle = {CHI '08: Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {4788633}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1357054.1357181}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357181}, doi = {10.1145/1357054.1357181}, isbn = {978-1-60558-011-1}, keywords = {attractiveness, dating, online}, location = {Florence, Italy}, pages = {797--806}, posted-at = {2009-06-09 17:06:13}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Assessing attractiveness in online dating profiles}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357181}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4788633 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4788633 N2 - Online dating systems play a prominent role in the social lives of millions of their users, but little research has considered how users perceive one another through their personal profiles. We examined how users perceive attractiveness in online dating profiles, which provide their first exposure to a potential partner. Participants rated whole profiles and profile components on such qualities as how attractive, extraverted, and genuine and trustworthy they appeared. As past research in the psychology of attraction would suggest, the attractiveness and other qualities of the photograph were the strongest predictors of whole profile attractiveness, but they were not alone: the free-text component also played an important role in predicting overall attractiveness. In turn, numerous other qualities predicted the attractiveness ratings of photos and free-text components, albeit in different ways for men and women. The fixed-choice elements of a profile, however, were unrelated to attractiveness. CY - Florence, Italy SN - 978-1-60558-011-1 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 806 TI - Assessing attractiveness in online dating profiles PB - ACM T2 - CHI '08: Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 797 KW - attractiveness KW - dating KW - online AU - Fiore, Andrew AU - Taylor, Lindsay AU - Mendelsohn, GA AU - Hearst, Marti PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357181 ER -