Online Daters Choose Wrong Match due to Overload

Studies
  • Tuesday, July 21 2009 @ 04:08 pm
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In Taiwan at the National Sun Yat-Sen University, a new study has found that when online daters are presented with more choices in matches, they have less of a chance in finding love. The study calls it cognitive overload, since singles made poorer decisions in partner choices, when presented with a larger list of suitors. The researchers found, the longer the list of potential partners, the less selective a person became and the less time they actually spent evaluating each dating profile.

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