TC article: Bumble is testing a speed-dating feature

 

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/03/bumble-is-testing-a-speed-dating-feature-where-users-chat-before-matching/


Two papers debunking speeddating for serious dating
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2011/01/two-papers-debunking-speeddating-for.html

article: Facebook Dating (MAY 2018) Was Set To Take Over The Market – Instead It Was Dead In The Water
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2022/05/article-facebook-dating-may-2018-was.html

January 20, 2022: Meta (Facebook) shuts down its video speed-dating service, Sparked
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-20-2022-meta-facebook-shuts.html

Personality and speed daters
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2010/03/personality-correlates-of-different.html

SA article: Sparked / Facebook testing new video speed-dating app

 

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3681354-facebook-testing-new-video-speed-dating-app
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/13/22381511/facebook-video-speed-dating-npe-team-sparked-feature

Two papers debunking speeddating for serious dating
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2011/01/two-papers-debunking-speeddating-for.html

Posing personality: Is it possible to enact the Big Five traits in photographs?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2013/01/posing-personality-is-it-possible-to.html

SA article: "Facebook Dating comes to Europe after long delay"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/10/sa-article-facebook-dating-comes-to.html

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.   

Posing personality: Is it possible to enact the Big Five traits in photographs?

NEW AND FRESH PAPER!

"Posing personality: Is it possible to enact the Big Five traits in photographs?"


Abstract: Person perception research has focused on the accuracy of observers receiving truthful target information; however, in real life people may often wish to manage the impression that they convey. We investigated whether people can "pose personality" in photographs. Sixty target participants posed each in 10 photographs in which they sought to express the high and low poles of the Big Five traits by means of physical appearances. Observers (N=401) rated targets' personality and likability from each photograph. The results showed that targets successfully posed as Extravert and, to lesser extent, as Introvert, Neurotic, Non-Conscientious, and Open, and that targets could not convey impressions of high and low Agreeableness.

People often wish to adjust and control the image that they convey to others, but this tendency has received relatively little attention in the literature. Given the hugely increased possibilities for connecting with others online, the present findings according to which people are, in portrait photographs, able to "fake" some of their personality characteristics (e.g., high Extraversion, high Openness), but not others (e.g., high Agreeableness) are important.

This paper is a BIG PUNCH to online dating sites offering Personality Traits analysis based on facial features (like  Soul2Match, FindYourFaceMate, FaceReader from Profiler1) helping to detect levels of soulmate love and friendship like the Digital Physiognomy software.
BIG PUNCH also to speeddating events.

AND
BIG PUNCH also to Behavioural Recommender Systems / Recommendation Engines for Online Dating sites.

NO INNOVATIONS SINCE YEARS IN THE ONLINE DATING INDUSTRY.

C level executives do not  pay attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.

The ineffectiveness of

The ineffectiveness of speed dating and why you should not pay for a dating service

I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.

ONLY ONE ROAD TO ACHIEVE INNOVATIONS  
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar test) to assess personality of its members.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry

Does our personality affect our level of attractiveness?

Is there's something about personality that makes some people better at predicting whether others will want to meet them?

Dr. Lars Penke, one of the brains behind PERSOC is leading research in the speed dating events arena.
In a previous article, I had posted "Two papers debunking speeddating for serious dating"

Now a new study conducted by Dr. Lars Penke et al finds that certain personality traits contribute to being a good judge of whether someone else thinks you're worth meeting again.
In 17 groups, a total of 190 men and 192 women met members of the opposite sex—basically the standard speed dating routine, but that time, with psychologists collecting a lot of data. Among that data was personality information and the all-important question after each three-minute date: for each person you talk to, do you want to see that person again? They were also asked if they thought the other person would want to meet them.
On the whole, people are very bad at guessing how many of the other persons will want to meet them. Some people had no clue at all. But others did better. Success was correlated with particular traits that are stereotypically associated with the sexes: Men who have a more promiscuous orientation were better at guessing if a woman would want to meet them, and women whose personality was very agreeable were better at guessing if a man would meet them.

Back, M. D., Penke, L., Schmukle, S. C., & Asendorpf, J. B. (in press). Knowing your own mate value: Sex-specific personality effects on the accuracy of expected mate choices. Psychological Science.

Two papers debunking speeddating for serious dating

Two NEW & FRESH papers debunking speeddating for serious dating (also a big punch to Behavioural recommender systems like IntroAnalytics, VisualDNA, the one used at PlentyOfFish or other system that learns your preferences)


"Why Mate Choices are not as Reciprocal as we Assume: The Role of Personality, Flirting and Physical Attractiveness" (2010)
..... Lars Penke, ....

Results show that actual mate choices are not reciprocal although people strongly expect their choices to be reciprocated and flirting behaviour is indeed strongly reciprocal. This interesting pattern of results was explained by investigating individual and dyadic effects of flirting, self-perceived mate value and physical attractiveness on mate choices. Results have important implications for understanding mating behaviour, sex differences and the (in)accuracies of mating decisions.


"From Dating to Mating and Relating: Predictors of Initial and Long-Term Outcomes of Speed-Dating in a Community Sample" (2010)
..... Lars Penke, ....

We studied initial and long-term outcomes of speed-dating over a period of 1 year in a community sample involving 382 German participants aged 18–54 years. They were followed from their initial choices of dating partners up to later mating (sexual intercourse) and relating (romantic relationship). Using Social Relations Model analyses, we examined evolutionarily informed hypotheses on both individual and dyadic effects of participants' physical characteristics, personality with Five Factor Model (FFM), education and income on their dating, mating and relating.
The online questionnaire assessed demographic details, health status, stable personality traits and relationship and sexual history including questions about women's contraception usage and menstrual cycle.
Both men and women based their choices mainly on the dating partners' physical attractiveness, and women additionally on men's sociosexuality, openness to experience, shyness, education and income. Choosiness increased with age in men, decreased with age in women and was positively related to popularity among the other sex, but mainly for men.
Partner similarity had only weak effects on (speed)dating success. The chance for mating with a speed-dating partner was 6%, and was increased by men's short-term mating interest; the chance for relating was 4%, and was increased by women's long-term mating interest.
Another way of looking at the probabilities of 6% and 4% is to convert them into time and money spent on multiple speeddating events, assuming independence of the outcomes of each event. Assuming that one has to pay 30 Euros for a speed-dating event lasting 3 hours including everything, finding a relationship partner requires investing 75 hours and 750 Euros on average.
Also confirmed was our expectation that similarity of the dating partners facilitates reciprocated choices. However, after controlling for individual effects the similarity effect was only significant for facial attractiveness. Kurzban and Weeden (2005) found similarity effects for height and BMI, whereas Luo and Zhang (2009) did not find any significant effect for 44 tests of similarity. Together, these findings suggest that similarity effects are weak in studies of brief real dating interactions. This result is different from the conclusions from questionnaire studies of attraction to hypothetical partners, from dyadic interaction studies where similarity effects are confounded with individual effects, and from studies of similarity in couples that regularly find clear similarity effects even after controlling for individual effects (Klohnen & Luo, 2003). It seems that similarity effects need more time to emerge than the 3 minutes provided by speed-dating.

Finally, our expectation that women's mating is predicted by the short-term mating preferences of their male matches, whereas men's relating is predicted by the long-term preferences by their female matches was confirmed both 6 weeks and 1 year after speeddating.


[Remember: People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. uncovered by Eastwick & Finkel (2008); Kurzban & Weeden (2005-2007); Alison P. Lenton,  Lars Penke, Peter M. Todd and Barbara Fasolo (2007)]

Personality and speed daters

"Personality correlates of different romantic intentions in speed daters"


"Research on Sociosexuality has identified patterns of mating that reflect a range of mating preferences and strategies (Gangestad & Simpson, 2000). Previous research suggests that short-term mating behavior is associated with high extraversion, low agreeableness, and low conscientiousness for both men and women (Shackleford & Schmitt, 2008). Given the increasing prevalence of practices such as speed-dating and online dating, we searched for correlates of romantic intentions in the context of speed-dating. Prior to an experimental speed-dating session, 112 participants (55 male, 57 female; mean age= 21.97 years SD= 3.16) seeking a range of romantic interactions indicated the primary type of romantic interaction they were seeking (casual sex, dating, a relationship, or marriage) and completed self-ratings on the Big Five and other personality traits (e.g., athleticism, wealth and intelligence). Persons seeking casual sex showed high self-reported levels of wealth, narcissism and self esteem, while those seeking dating showed lower levels of intelligence and higher levels of religiosity. Additionally, persons seeking long-term relationships or marriage showed relatively high levels of intelligence and honesty. Future attention should focus on how these self views relate to impressions formed by others as well as actual behavior of the daters."