Research

As part of the article series Hidden gems from the world of research, The Guardian has covered two academic studies

2019 research published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships explored the issue of dating app addiction as relates

New research published in the journal Applied Economics has used data from Adultmatchmaker.com.au to investigate aspects of Sexual Economic Theory

New research published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships has considered the correlates of compulsive dating app use.

2019 research from Stanford University has shown a rise in the percentage of new heterosexual couples that begin their relationships

New research published in the journal New Media and Society has investigated the personality-based correlates of dating app use. The

New research published in the Journal of Financial Crime has considered the different factors that may help in predicting whether

New survey data from Stanford University has shown that among English literate adults in the United States, couples who meet

A new study has examined the ways in which AI can be used to tackle dating service scammers and fraudsters.

2019 research published in the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science has considered the different motivations users have for joining Tinder. The

Researchers at Queensland Behavioural Economics Group (QuBE) have partnered with the Australian online dating group Giga Pty Ltd to conduct

A new study published in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction has explored the issue of sexual racism. The study acknowledges

2018 research published in Computers in Human Behavior examines the kind of social media posts which cause users to experience

A collaboration between the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in the

2016 Research in the Journal of Behavioural Addictions works to develop a Problematic Tinder Use Scale. The study notes that

2018 research published in the journal Science Advances has used online dating data to explore the idea of a ‘market’

2017 research published in the Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness has considered how lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals make

2017 research out of the Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech has investigated user perceptions of crossing paths on the dating

According to a recent study, women are pickier than men when it comes to the education of potential partners. They

2017 research published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences explores the reasons why people may leave one relationship to

A study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has found Tinder use does not cause users to

2016 research published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences explored the reasons individuals have for staying friends with ex-partners.

2017 research published in the journal Psychological Science has investigated whether answers to a personality test can help to predict

2018 research published in The Journal of Social Psychology has examined the factors that influence whether or not someone is

2017 research published in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour examines the extent to which people can determine the sexuality of

Late 2017 research from the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories and Kyoto University, Japan has shown an AI capable of visualising

2018 research at The University of New Mexico is investigating the effect of the internet on building bridges across traditionally

2017 work published in The Journal of Sex Research investigates the extent to which a prospective partner’s sexual history is

2016 research published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior has devised a scale for social media addiction. The Social