TY - GEN
T1 - Romantic Selectivity and Sexual Assertiveness on Dating Apps
T2 - 57th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2024
AU - Alexopoulos, Cassandra
AU - Sharabi, Liesel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - biological market theory
KW - dating apps
KW - romantic selectivity
KW - sexual assertiveness
KW - sexual coercion
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85199782356
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 2586
EP - 2592
BT - Proceedings of the 57th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2024
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 3 January 2024 through 6 January 2024
ER -