{"id":368252,"date":"2019-03-19T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=368252"},"modified":"2019-03-19T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T15:33:07","slug":"applying-psychology-online-dating-368252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/applying-psychology-online-dating-368252\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying psychology to online dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online dating isn\u2019t for the faint of heart, says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/psy\/people\/faculty\/reis_harry\/\">Harry Reis,<\/a> professor of psychology and the Dean\u2019s Professor in Arts, Sciences, and Engineering at the URochester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s the old saying that you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince\u2014and I think that really applies to online dating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reis, who studies social interactions and close relationships, spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/better\/lifestyle\/how-be-better-online-dating-according-psychology-ncna979791\"><em>NBC News\u2019s <\/em>health and wellness blog<em> Better<\/em><\/a> about how to improve at online dating, based on psychological research.<\/p>\n<p>The apps and sites help you meet more people, Reis told <em>Better<\/em>\u2019s Sarah DiGiulio. However, he cautioned, there are certain things about a person and a potential partner that you just can\u2019t find out from a profile or chatting online. Such as: Do you communicate well? Do you make one another laugh? Do you enjoy one another\u2019s company? Do you feel like you\u2019re a better person when you\u2019re with the other person?<\/p>\n<p>Among other publications, Reis is the coauthor of a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/psy\/people\/faculty\/reis_harry\/assets\/pdf\/PsychologicalScienceinthePublicInterest-2012-Finkel-3-66.pdf\"> study on the psychology of online dating dynamics in the journal <em>Psychological Science in the Public Interest<\/em><\/a>. He also coauthored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/tips-for-successful-dating-in-a-digital-world\/\">\u201cTips for Successful Dating in a Digital World<\/a>,\u201d published in\u00a0<em>Scientific American<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/better\/lifestyle\/how-be-better-online-dating-according-psychology-ncna979791\">Read more on NBC News.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s the old saying that you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince\u2014and I think that really applies to online dating,\u201d says professor Harry Reis in an NBC News post on how to be better at online dating, according to psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"featured_media":368322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29212],"tags":[18592,20302,105],"class_list":["post-368252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voices-opinion","tag-department-of-psychology","tag-harry-reis","tag-relationships"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Applying psychology to online dating<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cThere\u2019s the old saying that you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince\u2014and I think that really applies to online dating,\u201d says professor Harry Reis.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/applying-psychology-online-dating-368252\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Applying psychology to online dating\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cThere\u2019s the old saying that you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince\u2014and I think that really applies to online dating,\u201d says professor Harry Reis.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/applying-psychology-online-dating-368252\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-19T15:30:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-03-19T15:33:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fea-online-dating-kissing-frogs.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sandra Knispel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sandra Knispel\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/applying-psychology-online-dating-368252\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/applying-psychology-online-dating-368252\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sandra Knispel\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/48a5dd20d1ade85ff52a0babb9a550a5\"},\"headline\":\"Applying psychology to online dating\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-19T15:30:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-03-19T15:33:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/applying-psychology-online-dating-368252\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":215,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/applying-psychology-online-dating-368252\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/03\\\/fea-online-dating-kissing-frogs.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Department of Psychology\",\"Harry Reis\",\"relationships\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Voices &amp; 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