PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eharmony, Tinder, Matching Principle
3 Jan 2019
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Video dating - social psych of match making. Research of stanley wall - cal state university. Eharmony, tinder christian mingle, plenty of fish. Not having to face personal rejection - they will do the choosing for you. Stigma associated: you may think that im such a loser, i can"t find someone myself. Fill out a questionnaire protocol, attach a photo on the back and do a videotape interview. When see someone you like, great expectations ask them out for you. From these protocols, you decide which videos you want to view, and then you select the people you want to actually date. Clientele - more likely to have been divorced and have children. Think aloud protocols - you tape record what they say as they are reading another person"s profile. Self monitoring - snyder - scale in monitoring and controlling expressive behaviour. Nonverbal social expressiveness - measures how expressive one actually is.
