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The Shaky Science of Online Dating
Businessweek: Ten years ago, online dating was seen as the last refuge of the desperate; today it’s mainstream enough that the worried parents of some of my unmarried friends urge them to keep their online
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Everybody’s Talking About Online Dating
According to the latest Psychological Science in the Public Interest study, the matchmaking algorithms used by online sites aren’t necessarily based on good science. So leading up to Valentine’s Day, the hottest topic wasn’t chocolates
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Why Online Dating Doesn’t Work
Scientific American: Online dating might give you something, but it’s probably not a soul mate. Most sites rely on what’s called an “exclusive process”—they use an algorithm to find romantic matches based variables, from interests
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The search engine for love
The Sydney Morning Herald: It’s easy to play Cupid when both parties are motivated to find love, writes Nicky Phillips. In the winter of 1959, two Stanford University students used the institution’s room-size IBM 650
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Q & A With Eli Finkel – The Science Behind Online Dating (Part 2)
Eli Finkel, a social psychologist at Northwestern University, is one of five authors on a new study in Psychological Science in the Public Interest. The study, ‘Online Dating: A Critical Analysis from the Perspective of
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Looking for Love in All the Web Places
Huffington Post: With Valentine’s Day upon us, there are some interesting conclusions to note from soon-to-be-published research regarding that most 21st-century of romantic developments: the dating website. In this past weekend’s New York Times Sunday
