Online Dating Profiles
Participants
The participants in this study were recruited from Towson University. The participants were recruited through snowball sampling, in which the researcher starts with one person and he give the name(s) of other people in the population. To be eligible for this study the participants had to be undergraduate college males of White, Black, or Latino descent. In the end, the sample consisted of 30 males in total ranging from (__ to __) with a mean age of (__)(SD_). The sample contained 10 White males, 10 Black males, and 10 Latino males.
Measures and Procedures In this study, attraction among heterosexual college males was researched. More specifically, which race men were more likely to “like” or respond to on online dating profiles. To determine, who men were attracted to, three different dating profiles were created. First, when creating the profiles, it was important to find women of each background who were viewed as equally attracted. Therefore, pictures of different women were found and surveyed among the wider Towson University population including women, staff, and homosexual men to rank them on a scale from one to ten. One being not attractive and ten being very attractive. This led to the three women who were used in the profiles and all had an average ranking of eight. Also, when creating the …show more content…
The three questions were: 1. Would you swipe right on this girl? 2. Do you want to get to know this girl? 3. Would you message this girl? An informed consent form was not necessary for this study because it was anonymous. Participants were only asked to provide age and race in the questionnaire. Next, participants were told they would be viewing online dating profiles by seeing the picture and reading the biography. After looking at the profile they would answer the three questions
The participants in this study were recruited from Towson University. The participants were recruited through snowball sampling, in which the researcher starts with one person and he give the name(s) of other people in the population. To be eligible for this study the participants had to be undergraduate college males of White, Black, or Latino descent. In the end, the sample consisted of 30 males in total ranging from (__ to __) with a mean age of (__)(SD_). The sample contained 10 White males, 10 Black males, and 10 Latino males.
Measures and Procedures In this study, attraction among heterosexual college males was researched. More specifically, which race men were more likely to “like” or respond to on online dating profiles. To determine, who men were attracted to, three different dating profiles were created. First, when creating the profiles, it was important to find women of each background who were viewed as equally attracted. Therefore, pictures of different women were found and surveyed among the wider Towson University population including women, staff, and homosexual men to rank them on a scale from one to ten. One being not attractive and ten being very attractive. This led to the three women who were used in the profiles and all had an average ranking of eight. Also, when creating the …show more content…
The three questions were: 1. Would you swipe right on this girl? 2. Do you want to get to know this girl? 3. Would you message this girl? An informed consent form was not necessary for this study because it was anonymous. Participants were only asked to provide age and race in the questionnaire. Next, participants were told they would be viewing online dating profiles by seeing the picture and reading the biography. After looking at the profile they would answer the three questions