Research has indicated that
online daters may pick up on language cues connected to personality traits in
online dating profile texts, and act upon those cues. This research seeks to
investigate the level of accuracy of detection of personality in dating profile
texts, and the extent to which perceived or actual similarity of personality
has an effect on attractiveness of the author.
An online survey was conducted
collecting the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) for each participant and
text author, a peer-report TIPI score by participants for each text author, and
an attractiveness rating on a Likert scale for each author. Participants
correctly identified Extraversion, though the effect size was small.
Contrary
to the hypotheses, participants preferred texts when written by an author with
a personality they perceived as dissimilar to their own, specifically in
Openness and Conscientiousness, and no relationship was found between actual
similarity of personality and attractiveness.
Online daters may choose partners
with complementary or desirable traits rather than similar traits, or other
factors in attraction may be more salient in the initial stages of determining
attraction.
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By: Fox Hamilton N1, Fullwood C1, Kirwan G2.
- 1University of Wolverhampton.
- 2Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire.
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