Swiping right: Sociosexuality, intentions to engage in infidelity, and infidelity experiences on Tinder

Weiser, Dana A.; Niehuis, Sylvia; Flora, Jeanne; Punyanunt‐Carter, Narissra Maria; Arias, Vladimir Santiago; Baird, Rachel H.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.10.025

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“…The analyses were run for three outcomes separately: joviality, sadness and anxiety. The control variables were used as they served as significant predictors in previous Tinder research (e.g., Strubel & Petrie, 2017;Weiser et al, 2018). Moreover, it is important to account for the participants' current mood in order to ensure their response to well-being is not biased by their mood during participation.…”

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Tinder blue, mental flu? Exploring the associations between Tinder use and well-being

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Timmermans

2020

Information, Communication & Society

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While Tinder (i.e., a popular mobile dating app) has received quite some research attention, its effects on users' well-being have rarely been addressed. The present study investigates the extent to which Tinder users' compulsive use, motives, subjective online success and self-conscious social comparison are associated with their well-being (i.e., joviality, sadness, and anxiety). In total, 296 (39% females; 90% heterosexuals) emerging adults who were currently using Tinder completed an online survey. The results suggest that while using Tinder compulsively and for relationship seeking can increase joviality, they may trigger more negative than positive affect. Moreover, feeling unsuccessful on Tinder and making self-conscious social comparisons were positively associated with sadness and anxiety, and negatively associated with joviality. The results seem to imply that Tinder users need to be aware of their compulsive Tinder use, relationship seeking motive, unsuccessful feeling, and/or self-conscious social comparison tendency on Tinder to better understand the consequences of their Tinder use. Although the current study is based on cross-sectional data, the findings suggest an association between using Tinder and users' well-being. Future research could extend these findings by utilizing a longitudinal research design and including other aspects of well-being and psychopathology such as life satisfaction and depression.

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Tinder blue, mental flu? Exploring the associations between Tinder use and well-being

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Timmermans

2020

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“…For instance, emerging research on Tinder (2018) 4 , a mobile dating application with over 20 billion matches to date, suggest that users see Tinder as a tool for love and casual sex ( LeFebvre, 2017 ; Sumter et al., 2017 ). There is evidence that Tinder may be used to facilitate infidelity, a pattern that seems to be moderated by individual intentions to engage in sexual activities outside the context of a romantic relationship, but not necessarily by gender ( Weiser et al., 2017 ). With regard to this issue, we believe that future studies should incorporate implicit measures to the study of the link between infidelity and Tinder or other dating apps/sites.…”

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An investigation of Facebook users' implicit associations between Facebook, sexual and prosocial behavior

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Despite growing research on online social networking, implicit associations of Facebook users have been largely understudied. In Study 1, we used the Single-Target Implicit Association Test (ST-IAT; Karpinski and Steinman, 2006) in order to assess implicit associations between Facebook and two evolutionary relevant constructs: sexual and prosocial behavior. Additionally, we controlled for the role of participant's relationship status as a potential moderator of Facebook implicit associations. In Study 2, we extended these findings and explored the relationship between implicit and explicit associations towards Facebook. Across two studies, we found that Facebook is more strongly associated with prosocial than with sexual behavior. This effect was not sensitive to sex differences. Further, Study 2 results revealed that implicit and explicit associations did not correlate. We discuss the implications of these findings, underlining the role of implicit measures in cyberpsychology research.

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“…The importance of photos is not self-evident because other means of communication are available, such as text, voice messages, or phone calls. Related research on Tinder has focused mainly on the platform itself and pointed toward a variety of uses that it has, such as for casual sex, for finding long-term partners, or for purposes of excitement (Sumter et al, 2016;Weiser et al, 2018). As well, the negative uses have been studied, such as issues related to body image concerns when using the app (Strubel & Petrie, 2017), the possible addiction to a swipe logic (David & Cambre, 2016), or harassment and sexist abuse (Thompson, 2018).…”

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“…Related research on Tinder use has focused on understanding the motives that different users have for using the service, ranging from finding long-term love or casual sex for self-worth validation to the thrill of excitement, trendiness, and travel information (e.g., Newett , Churchill, & Robards, 2017;Sumter, Vandenbosch, & Ligtenberg 2016;Timmermans, & De Caluwé, 2017;Weiser et al, 2018). Other researchers have investigated problematic uses of the dating app, such as harassment and sexist abuse (Thompson, 2018), toxic masculinity (Hess & Flores, 2018), racism (Mason, 2016), body image concerns (Strubel & Petrie, 2017), or trolling (March, Grieve, Marrington, & Jonason, 2017).…”

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Photo use while dating: From forecasted photos in Tinder to creating copresence using other media

2019

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While studying Finnish users of the online dating app Tinder searching for longterm partnerships, we paid attention to the importance of photos in their social interactions. Based on our study, we argue that photos play an important role in online dating. Initially, photos are chosen and uploaded to influence future interactions, particularly regarding who will contact them via their profile. We term this particular future tense of photography forecasted photos. Second, photos enabled the creation of copresence between dates, especially via instant messaging services instantly after capture. Third, the classic notions of photos depicting the past became important when wanting to be reminded of previous meetings. Taken together, we argue that photos enhance intimacy building while dating on social media. This role should be accounted for by paying attention not only to photography's relation to the past or the present, but also to a future tense of photography.

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Swiping right: Sociosexuality, intentions to engage in infidelity, and infidelity experiences on Tinder

Cited by 55 publications

References 21 publications

Tinder blue, mental flu? Exploring the associations between Tinder use and well-being

Tinder blue, mental flu? Exploring the associations between Tinder use and well-being

An investigation of Facebook users' implicit associations between Facebook, sexual and prosocial behavior

Photo use while dating: From forecasted photos in Tinder to creating copresence using other media

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