Tag: dating
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Dating, Sex, and Herpes
Read more: Dating, Sex, and HerpesDating, Sex, and Herpes, a Q&A at the NYT with Dr. Peter Leone. Starts this way: Can you have herpes but never even know it? Can the herpes simplex virus spread even if you don’t have symptoms? And how do you navigate the maze of sex and dating when you know you are infected with…
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Online Dating Pay Site Takedown
Read more: Online Dating Pay Site TakedownA lively takedown of pay dating sites on the OkCupid Blog–simultaneously demystifying the online dating process. There is a negative correlation between the number of messages a man sends per day to the reply rate he gets.The more messages you send, the worse response rate you get. It’s not hard to see why this would…
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Speed Dating Overwhelm
Read more: Speed Dating OverwhelmToo many choices, at the grocery store or in dating, can lead to hasty decision-making–or so says a study reported at PsychCentral: In this environment, researchers found that people respond by paying attention to different types of characteristics – discarding attributes such as education, smoking status, and occupation in favor of physical characteristics such as…
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Hooking Up v. Dating
Read more: Hooking Up v. DatingIt may not have taken a psych study to figure out that there’s a gender split regarding feelings about hooking up among college students. But of interest: all still prefer dating to hooking up–or at least say they do to a psych researcher.
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Playing Hard-to-Get: The Study
Read more: Playing Hard-to-Get: The StudyPsyBlog digs into psych study history and answers the question, Does Playing Hard To Get Work?: [E]very time psychologists used an experiment to test the idea that playing hard to get is a good dating strategy, their results didn’t make any sense. At least not until 1973 when Elaine Walster and colleagues at the University…