Tag: dating
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The New, New Dating
Read more: The New, New DatingNYT: The New Dating Tools: A Card and a Wink Move over, Match.com. This is the next generation of online dating. Unlike traditional dating sites where members spend hours on computers writing autobiographies and scrutinizing photographs, a raft of newfangled dating tools are striving to better bridge the gap between online and real-world romance.
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Dostoyevsky, Halitosis, and Online Dating Lies
Read more: Dostoyevsky, Halitosis, and Online Dating LiesThree from the morning feed… Brooding Russians: Less distressed than Americans (ScienceDaily) Bad Breath Troubles? (WebMD) The Big Lies People Tell In Online Dating (OKCupid)
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Breakup Predictor
Read more: Breakup PredictorA study finds a new way t o predict whether or not a couple is going to stay together–word matching. The researchers found that volunteers who found it easy to associate their partner with bad things and difficult to associate the partner with good things were more likely to separate over the next year.
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The Look of Love
Read more: The Look of LoveA pair of studies looks at the look of love: First: Attitudes Towards Sexual Relationships Can Be Judged From Photos Of Your Face And in another: Volunteers looked at faces with exaggerated or reduced male or female features; the faces had been morphed to look either more or less masculine or feminine. As the faces…
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Your Best Face
Read more: Your Best FaceNew feature at OKCupid helps ID your most alluring profile picture with the help of other users. Comes alongside this iffy move: OKCupid Hides Good-Looking People From Less Attractive Users. Unsavory–though a Consumerist commenter may be onto something re the attractive users thing: I think it’s just a ploy, I received the same email too and…