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Results from an experiment on status symbols an dating success

Description

Data from an online dating/mating app experiment with IV "car as status symbol" (yes vs. no) and DV1 "matching" (number) and DV2 "message sent" (number). The principal research question was whether a luxury sports car (BMW Z4) on the individual profile portrait photo at an online dating app would have an influence on the number of contact requests and messages sent to this profile. Care was taken that the profiles showed no difference besides the car.

Usage

data(dating)

Format

A data frame containing 5063 rows and 7 columns

strawperson

Chr. DThere were 6 straw persons. ie., persons with a profile on the dating portal

sex

Chr. Sex of strawperson

car

Int. Whether a luxury sports car was on the profile picture or not

date

Chr. Date mm/dd/yyyy

Age

Int. Age

ID_hash

Chr. Username anonymized

comm_type

Type of communication by individuals: either matching or contact message

whr

Numeric. Waist hip ratio of strawperson

beauty

Subjective beauty rating of strawperson by rating committee

Details

This dataset was published here: https://osf.io/4hkjm/.

Source

Please cite this dataset as: 'Sauer, S., & Wolff, A. (2016, August 16). The effect of status symbols on success in online dating: an experimental study. Retrieved from osf.io/4hkjm'


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