Revealing the ‘real’ me, searching for the ‘actual’ you: Presentations of self on an internet dating site

Whitty, Monica T.

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Revealing the ‘real’ me, searching for the ‘actual’ you: Presentations of self on an internet dating site

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Online dating has become a very popular and almost normative activity in Western society.
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The Study purpose section describes the site as one of Australia's largest online dating sites, and section 3.2 refers to thousands of profiles. These passages indicate substantial use of online dating in an Australian setting, but they do not establish that it was almost normative across Western society. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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In HHRs, actors typically check in the conversation for signs of reciprocity.
“In HHRs, actors will typically be 'checking in the conversation for signs of reciprocity' (Whitty, 2008, p. 28).”
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Self-disclosure is important to relationship building and is typically described as a mutual process.
“Self-disclosure is important to relationship building and is typically described as a mutual process (Altman et al., 1981;Whitty, 2008).”
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Most online daters try to meet their person from the site fairly quickly, often within weeks after initial contact on the site.
“most online daters try to meet their person from the site fairly quickly, often within weeks after initial contact on the site.”
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Authors: Whitty, M. T.
Affiliations: Nottingham Trent University (GB)
Corresponding author: Whitty, Monica T.
ORCID: Whitty, Monica T.
Venue: Computers in Human Behavior
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2008-07
Volume: 24
Issue: 4
Pages: 1707-1723
ISSN: 0747-5632 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2007.07.002
OpenAlex: W2137792114
Cited by: 345
References: 34
Citations by year: 2026: 13 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 18 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 18
FWCI: 14.25
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
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Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
Locations: Computers in Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick) (acceptedVersion)
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Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository) (submittedVersion)
Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Keywords: self-presentation, online dating, self-disclosure, online profiles, gender differences, romantic relationships, relationship initiation

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