Men aim higher but matches favor similarity: Study reveals online dating patterns

Men Keep Swiping Out Of Their League On Dating Apps, And Research Shows It Rarely Works

Dating app users have long suspected it, and now science confirms it: men often pursue women who are significantly more desirable than themselves, while women, who receive more attention overall, tend to be more selective. The post Men Keep Swiping Out Of Their League On Dating Apps, And Research Shows It Rarely Works appeared first on Study Finds.

Men aim higher but matches favor similarity: Study reveals online dating patterns

An analysis of heterosexual users of a Czech dating app found that men tended to pursue women who were more desirable than themselves, but most instances of reciprocated interest occurred between men and women with more similar levels of desirability.

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(Photo by Tim Samuel: By Stephen Beech Men tend to “punch up” by pursuing the most attractive women when online dating, suggests new research. But mutual matches mostly showed more similar desirability, according to the findings. Dr. Renata Topinkova, of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and Dr. Tomas Diviak, of the University of Manchester, analyzed heterosexual users of a Czech dating app. They found that men tended to pursu…