Online Dating Fibbing Women - Social Experiment

When a woman shows up for a blind date from an online dating site but looks nothing like her photo.

We've discussed one of the errors in the Attribution Theory - the idea of Primacy Effect. Once we have already established an impression of someone, even when confronted with opposing information we are slow to change our impression. These people, having exchanged emails and photos, would have established an impression of what each other were like. Even when confronted with a completely different person, some of them are uncertain and just continue on, or they are confused at the very least.

Is this a benefit with online dating - that impressions formed by attractiveness only counts for so much but the interaction through emails etc draws the majority of interest from their personality instead? Maybe this is a way to get away from those impressions formed initially by looks, since we in generally are so apt to do that.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• social
• behaviour
• primacy
• effect
• psychology
• impressions
• attribution
• theory

[jm2trash]

AWWW danny makes me feel good about humanity! : )

[SpoonsForks]

ooo i like that bartender...

[Gootch82]

lol this is awesome!

[SwissDHD]

They were mic'd... 

[Seniorsinoz]

Its generally true loads of people make fake profiles or put different/edited photographs and one should not do this as it puts a very bad impression on a guy/girl with whom you are going to date.

[EllaBelle18]

teddy reminds me of ted from how i met your mother

[xMrShady3x]

WHAT moron whould actually volunteer for that role.

[CleverDjembe]

Yes, the beauty of women is skin deep.

We don't care for their strength or brain power.

BTW, Danny is a mangina pussy.

[thaking51]

@jm2trash Agreed, although I stay away from relationships. This is interesting as it shows the 3% of people who actually aren't just fishing for sex.

[Dollxhie]

Awww danny is so niceeeee ((: !!

[Dollxhie]

Dude I would be pissed too .... ! Totally different frm what they expected though,