Romantic Selectivity and Sexual Assertiveness on Dating Apps: An Experimental Test
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2024-01-03
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This study uses biological market theory to examine the effects of dating app user interest (i.e., the number of people who have expressed interest either by sending a person a “like” or having matched with them) and user availability (i.e., the number of viable partners who are available and meet one’s criteria) on romantic and sexual decision-making. Participants (N = 332) were randomly assigned to view messages showing high user interest, low user interest, high user availability, or low user availability. Findings showed that participants in the high interest (vs. low interest) condition were more selective, and that greater partner selectivity was associated with lower willingness to refuse unwanted sex. Findings also revealed differential effects for messages conveying high interest compared to high availability with partner selectivity explaining these effects. The implications of these findings for research on romantic and sexual decision-making in online dating are discussed.
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Decision Making in Online Social Networks, biological market theory, dating apps, romantic selectivity, sexual assertiveness, sexual coercion
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Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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