Nothing earth shattering, more confirmations of what we already knew: women are extremely picky, only become pickier with more choice, are less satisfied with their picks than men, etc. It's sort of brutal and amusing how the authors straight say women have a REJECTION-MINDSET.
This study really shows how online dating and social media have completely obliterated the dating market by making women's inherent pickiness much worse than it already was.
BUT REMEMBER, PEOPLE TELL
MEN THAT THEY ARE THE ONES WHO NEED TO LOWER THEIR STANDARDS
CLOWN FUCKING WORLD
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Here are some direct quotes from the study itself, in the style of the inkwel wiki
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The dating landscape has changed drastically over the past decade, with more and more people looking for a partner online People have never been able to select partners among such an enormous pool of options. [...] The rise of online dating coincided with an increase in the amount of singles in society
People become increasingly likely to reject potential partners to the extent that they are presented with more options
Overall, the adverse effects of choice abundance in dating thus seem to apply particularly to women—the gender that is already much less likely to accept potential partners to begin with, possibly consistent with evolutionary pressures (Buss & Schmitt, 1993).
In all studies, women became increasingly likely to reject potential partners, while for men this effect was either weaker (Study 1), similar (Study 2), or not significant (Study 3).
[...] across all three studies, there was a negative relationship between overall rejection behavior and satisfaction with the partner options participants accepted [...] people who were more rejecting were more likely to be less satisfied with the smaller number of partner options they did accept compared to people who were overall more accepting.
Because women typically reject more, they might also cumulate rejections more quickly and thus more easily adopt a rejection mind-set.
[...] when a choice set increases, people end up being less satisfied with their ultimate partner choice and more prone to reverse their decision [...] when asked to pick the best partner, access to more partner profiles resulted in more searching, more time spent on evaluating bad choice options, and a lower likelihood of selecting the option with the best personal fit
[...] the stream of partner profiles can set in motion an overall feeling of dissatisfaction and pessimism about finding a mate, which leads users to gradually “close off” from mating opportunities. Our findings might therefore explain why people are increasingly dissatisfied and frustrated by modern dating.
[...]across all studies, acceptance rate decreased over the course of online dating.
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Figure 1. The effect of sequence on choice behavior for women and men in Studies 1 and 3. Higher scores represent a higher chance on acceptance of the picture of a potential partner. The lines in the figure represent smoothed predicted means, using the “loess” algorithm of the ggplot2 package (version 2.2.1). The gray area around the lines represent the 95% confidence intervals around these predicted means.
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Figure 2. The effect of sequence on choice behavior for women and men in Study 2. Higher scores represent a higher chance on acceptance of the picture. The lines in the figure represent smoothed predicted means, using the “loess” algorithm of the ggplot2 package. The gray area around the lines represent the 95% confidence intervals around these predicted means.
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Figure 3. The effect of sequence on match rate for women and men in Study 2. Higher scores represent a higher chance on having a match with a potential partner. The lines in the figure represent smoothed predicted means, using the “loess” algorithm of the ggplot2 package. The gray area around the lines represent the 95% confidence intervals around these predicted means.
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