![]() Online dating isn’t one of those see-all-of-your-options-and-then-make-a-decision games. “There are small subtleties that can help,” he says. But Chaudhry’s findings do offer some pointers on how to share information about yourself and how decide who to take a chance on. Setting up a dating profile a certain way is by no means a guarantee for meeting the love of your life. Sameer Chaudhry, MD, an internist at the University of North Texas in Dallas, coauthored a 2015 BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine paper for which he and his coauthor considered nearly 4,000 studies across psychology, sociology, neurocognitive science, and other disciplines to come up with a series of guidelines for how to set up a profile, how to select matches, and how to approach online interactions. ![]() “Most of what we can say about online dating from research is really more extrapolating from other kinds of studies,” Reis says. If you meet someone via a friend or family member, just having that third-party connection is a way of helping validate certain characteristics about someone (physical appearance, values, personality traits, and so on). Where online dating differs from methods that go farther back are the layers of anonymity involved. “People have always used intermediaries such as mothers, friends, priests, or tribe members, to find a suitable partner,” Hallam says. ![]() (Her research currently focuses on online dating, including a study that found that age was the only reliable predictor of what made online daters more likely to actually meet up.) “The idea behind online dating is not a novel idea,” says Lara Hallam, a researcher in the Department of Communication Studies at University of Antwerp, where she’s working on her PhD in relationship studies. And similarly, when you meet someone offline, you may know a lot of information about that person ahead of time (such as when you get set up by a friend) or you may know very little (if, let’s say, you go out with someone you met briefly at a bar).
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