How do you sell something that people want, but aren’t prepared to admit to? No, the online dating industry doesn’t know either.
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When it comes to forming relationships it turns out opposites certainly don’t attract, that love is blind and we tend to love our neighbours.
When it comes to dating, take Nietzsche’s advice and have the big picture – finding a lifelong friend – in mind.
Flashing in public is illegal, shouldn’t its online equivalent be treated the same way?
Exploring the joys and pitfalls of digital romance.
Dating has gone from seeking soulmates to swiping faces to kill time. What happened?
Technology brings us together, but also creates distance – which doesn’t bode well for relationships.
In the online dating world it was once enough just to “Like” a person to indicate your interest. So what does it mean to “Super Like” a potential love interest?
While fallout from the Ashley Madison hack continues to spread, it’s worth remembering that views on infidelity have not always been so severe.
What we see in online dating is not always what we get.
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. So said Kevin Arnold in The Wonder Years. Now that we spend so much time online, our digital…
Take care lovers, wherever you are, as Valentine’s Day is soon upon us. Whether you’re in a relationship or want to be in a relationship, research over a number of years shows that February 14 can be a…
Online dating and romance scams continue to lure in Australians with figures this week showing people have lost more than A$23 million this year alone, with average individual losses at A$21,000 – three…
Singld Out, an online dating service based on “cutting-edge” science, has the solution for busy singles to sniff out the perfect companion. Literally. The dating site, in conjunction with a company called…
The world’s most popular gay social networking app, Grindr, is having a tough time. William Saponaro Jr is suing its developers for negligence, after he was arrested for sexual assault and endangering…
Online daters continue to express outrage about the revelation that OkCupid has been experimenting on users by telling them they matched well with people they had nothing in common with to see if they…
You might have noticed recently that a plague of “selfies” with tigers appears to have overtaken mobile dating app Tinder (where users “swipe right” to indicate interest; left to reject). Globally, so…
Older adults are the fastest-growing demographic on online dating websites, so much so that there has been a recent proliferation of sites catering specifically for the senior market, such as DatingOver60s…
Regulation of our intimate lives has always been a thorny issue. The anti-sodomy laws of the past and the same-sex marriage issue today illustrate times when policymakers can get it very, very wrong. Legislation…
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British Academy postdoctoral fellow, University of Warwick
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Concordia University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Relationships, University of South Wales
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Professor of Media and Communication and Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, School of Health Studies, Western University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Federation University Australia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Windsor
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PhD student, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Sex & Sexuality, La Trobe University
