Is there a difference between men’s and women’s perception of intelligence, attractiveness and dating intentions regarding dating profile owners based on whether their bio-texts contain errors or not?
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2022-06-27
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The article presents an experimental study investigating men’s and women’s perception of intelligence, attractiveness and dating intentions towards online dating profile owners, based on whether their bio-texts contain errors or not. The study also researches possible differences between the two genders’ evaluations. In this 2 (error/no error) x 2 (male/female) between-subjects design experiment, an online questionnaire was created where the participants were presented with three dating profiles of potential matches of theirs (either with or without errors), whom they then evaluated. The results showed that the presence of errors in dating profile owners’ bio texts has a negative effect on how intelligent the writer is perceived by males, as well as by females. However, the errors did not affect neither the perceived attractiveness nor the perceived dating intentions of men and women. A difference between men and women is observed in the finding that men overall evaluated the dating profiles as more attractive than women, and were more likely to date. The results suggest that presence of errors lead to lower evaluations of the writer’s intelligence, but it does not affect others’ perceived attractiveness and dating intentions towards the writer.
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