11/01/2019

A few speculative explanations for lower functional achievement rates on dating sites

If you are "fun-loving, love to laugh and travel", your homologation reduces the diagnostic value on a dating site. IOW, you just sound like the ordinary Tom, Dick and Harry which probably leads to a left-swipe.

Self-presentation and impressions of personality through text-based online dating profiles: A lens model analysis
In online dating, the self-authored profile serves as the primary way for daters to introduce themselves to others and to learn more about potential partners. However, few studies have examined the extent to which daters’ self-authored profile content is consistent with the impressions that others actually form. Using the meaning extraction method, we analyzed 190 profiles. Consistent with the lexical approach to personality, daters were able to encode aspects of themselves through linguistic self-description, and observers were able to decode profile information to form impressions. However, there were few significant associations between a dater’s self-presentation and observers’ judgments. 
The two categories most strongly associated with senders’ encoded personality traits were spending time with others and life aspirations. We offer a few speculative explanations for these lower functional achievement rates: on the senders’ side, dating sites may encourage “formulaic” profile responses, thus reducing the diagnostic value of words and phrases as they appear too often, and can subsequently lead observers to perceive that a profile is too stereotyped. Daters’ dissatisfaction with the homologation of profiles has been documented “‘Everyone’s always fun-loving, loves to laugh, loves to travel, um, loves to hang out with friends, loves to watch Netflix or go out to the bar.” Thus, the standardized nature of online dating profile self-description may be too generic to accurately reflect underlying personality traits.

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