Browsing by Subject "Online dating"

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Online dating through lies: the effects of lie fabrication for personal semanticinformation on predicted and actual memory performance
(Routledge, 2023-02-16) Kaya, Samet; Besken, Miri; Bal, Ceren; Berjin İke, Selin
Research shows that people lie on online dating sites often but might fail to remember this information subsequently. This study investigated participants’ predicted and actual memory performance for personal semantic information after telling the truth versus a lie in two experiments in a setup similar to online dating sites. In Experiment 1, participants responded to open-ended questions either truthfully or fabricated lies in a within-subjects design, followed by predictions for remembering their responses. Subsequently, they recalled their responses through free-recall. Using the same design, Experiment 2 also manipulated the type of retrieval task by using a free- or cued-recall test. The results showed that participants consistently had higher memory predictions for truthful than deceptive responses. However, the actual memory performance did not always produce similar results to their predictions. The results suggest that the difficulties during lie fabrication, measured through response latencies, partially mediated the relationship between lying and memory predictions. The study has important applied implications for lying about personal semantic information in online dating contexts.
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Putting your best self or no self at all? an analysis of young adult's dating app profiles in Turkey
(Springer New York LLC, 2025-01-20) Cöbek, Gözde; Baş, Özen; Audry, Aylin Sunam; İnceoğlu, İrem; Kaya, Yiğit Bahadır; Özenç, Aslı
Since the widespread use of dating apps across the globe, presenting one’s best self has become a prior issue in attracting potential partners. The literature gener- ally focuses on a single group’s profiles on a single app and examines the role of gender and sexual orientation in putting one’s best face and body or lying about it. However, very few studies draw attention to the role of cultural geography in profile construction, which may suggest that presenting a self in the first place, or self-dis- closure, becomes a more significant issue than presenting an ideal self in some cul- tural settings. This study examines young adults’ profiles on five dating apps popular in Turkey, where there is a powerful social stigma around LGBTI+ individuals and online dating and a sharp cultural division between Eastern and Western regions. It aims to understand the role of cultural geography across users from different genders and sexual orientations in self-disclosure. Based on a quantitative content analysis of 1976 dating app profiles collected across the country, our study finds statistically significant differences in self-disclosure between men and women, heterosexual and non-heterosexual users, and metropolitan and non-metropolitan individuals. In other words, showing one’s face, body, and other verbal information that might reveal one’s identity is highly influenced by one’s gender, sexual orientation, and geographical location. Our research contributes to the literature by not only under- lining the significance of cultural geography but also revealing the intersecting role of gender, sexual orientation, and geographical location in self-disclosure.