Online Dating Paper
With the advancing tool for online dating, individuals have the option to deceive in their self-presentation for these online profiles. Hancock and Toma knew that research had been done to detect that deception has always been prevalent in self-presentation on online profiles. However, the authors also realized that with the rise of social media platforms profile-based networks are no longer limited to text-based descriptions. Photographs are now the front of profile-based networks. Hancock and Toma realized that photographs have received miniscule scholarly attention in the situation of self-presentation. This study primarily inspects the accuracy of pictures posted by heterosexual daters on their online dating profiles. This study also studies
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The procedure of this study began with the participants being asked to rate their own printout of their online dating profile picture from 1 to 5. The scale went from 1 being completely inaccurate, to 5 being completely accurate. After this the participants were photographed as they posed like they did in their profile photo. The participants were then interviewed about the accuracy of their dating profile photograph, and if any kind of manipulation was done on the picture. After the interview, the researchers had a group of independent judges compare the two photos, the profile picture and the current one taken in the lab, and then rate the accuracy of the two. The last step in the process finished with a group of four trained coders evaluated the discrepancies between the photographs taken in the lab and the profile photographs. The results showed that forty-six of the fifty-four photographs contained at least one of the following discrepancies. Discrepancies about physical characteristics, or photographic process discrepancies, such as retouching or hiring professional photographers. The study also revealed that the female photographs had three times the number of discrepancies than the male photographs. The present study makes some theoretical contributions. The researchers establish what counts as deception and accuracy in dating photographs. Also, this study provides support for evolving psychology theories that predict gender differences in the subject of
The procedure of this study began with the participants being asked to rate their own printout of their online dating profile picture from 1 to 5. The scale went from 1 being completely inaccurate, to 5 being completely accurate. After this the participants were photographed as they posed like they did in their profile photo. The participants were then interviewed about the accuracy of their dating profile photograph, and if any kind of manipulation was done on the picture. After the interview, the researchers had a group of independent judges compare the two photos, the profile picture and the current one taken in the lab, and then rate the accuracy of the two. The last step in the process finished with a group of four trained coders evaluated the discrepancies between the photographs taken in the lab and the profile photographs. The results showed that forty-six of the fifty-four photographs contained at least one of the following discrepancies. Discrepancies about physical characteristics, or photographic process discrepancies, such as retouching or hiring professional photographers. The study also revealed that the female photographs had three times the number of discrepancies than the male photographs. The present study makes some theoretical contributions. The researchers establish what counts as deception and accuracy in dating photographs. Also, this study provides support for evolving psychology theories that predict gender differences in the subject of