The study found most use Tinder casually because they’re bored, playing with the app like a kind of smartphone game - even though many use it to find true love.
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Dating on apps is the new reality, but do they really make dating easier? A Cape Town study finds Tinder complicates it further.
What is it about Anna Delvey and Simon Leviev and how do gender and gender relations play a role in their schemes?
“It can’t happen to me”: why we think we’re immune to con artist scams, how they go about swindling regular people - and why we love shows about them.
Despite the belief that people are deeply skeptical of strangers, study after study shows that humans are primed to trust one another.
It’s easy to say “I’d never fall for that” when confronted with the stories of women who were conned by romance fraudster Simon Leviev. But a determined scammer can be very convincing and persuasive.
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