I love your points about how economists have also looked at this issue of selecting vs being selected. If you have any favorite articles, send them my way. I plan to do some digging to add this perspective to the article I am working on related to this. And yes, I agree that it helps women to take agency beyond Bumble. One of the good things about Bumble is that it has surfaced this issue of power, gender and communication, which adds to another structural space where everyone is encouraged to try something outside of traditional norms and normalize it.

Las convenciones de las citas heterosexuales han mantenido durante mucho tiempo que los hombres dan el primer paso: son los primeros en coquetear, los primeros en pedir una cita, los primeros en pedir matrimonio. ¿Y si los papeles se invirtieran? Eso es lo que ha intentado hacer la aplicación de…

Heterosexual dating conventions have long held that men make the first move: first to flirt, first to ask out on a date, first to propose. What if the roles were reversed? That’s what one dating app, Bumble, has tried to do. Bumble brands itself as a feminist dating app that’s…

Treena Orchard & Riki Thompson People are swiping on dating apps in record numbers and roughly half of these individuals identify as women, which may be the reason why the dating app industry recently assigned the top leadership roles to women. Indeed, this past year, the most powerful dating apps…

A few years ago I started conducting interviews with over 100 people about their online dating experiences. I wanted to know how people presented themselves on their profiles, perceived other users on the platforms, and made decisions about whom to date. My participants included single people trying to find “the…

Many were expecting a reprieve from Covid-19 and a return to a sense of normalcy during the summer, but we have now learned that the warmer weather alone won’t save us from coronavirus. With confirmed cases of over 20 million globally and 5 million in the U.S., people are struggling…

How COVID-19 is changing dating and hooking up — Before the pandemic people were swimming in a pool of what felt like endless possibilities on dating and hook up apps. The downside of such abundance has shown up in my research, as people report experiencing what psychologist and professor Barry Schwartz refers to as the paradox of choice which…

I was recently interviewed by Tess Goodwin about online dating for Boise State Public Radio. Read the article or listen at He’s Just Not That Into Zoom: Dating In Boise During COVID-19. Though Goodwin’s title suggests this dating scenario is Boise specific, my research suggests these trends are not regional…

Recently on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Dr. Sanjay Gupta was asked if people should date in the time of Coronavirus to which his answer was “it depends on how much you like the person”. Colbert then asked about blind dates, to which Gupta said, “no, no blind dates.”…