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Men’s online dating habits more bold than women’s, study finds

Published: 10 February 2016

With the social acknowledgment of popular dating apps such as Tinder and Bumble, online dating has quickly gained traction in recent years. But when human interaction moves online, according to a recent study, behavior might be lost in translation.

“One-Way Mirrors in Online Dating: A Randomized Field Experiment,” a Feb. 2 study published in the Management Science journal, was conducted by ƻԺ, University of Minnesota and National Tsing Hua University researchers. The study found that men tend to be bolder than women in online dating. This study only looked at heterosexual relationships.

“The goal is to find out … the difference in gender. Women don’t initiate matches as much as men do. Men send four times the number of messages as women do,” said Jui Ramaprasad, a professor of information systems at ƻԺ.

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