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crumpets -> RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You (5/11/2015 1:21:36 PM)
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ORIGINAL: NookieNotes
*smiles* I have overall physical preferences, too.
What I find very interesting about physical preferences, is, for example, that I have none - but - wait!
She must be female (yes, from the beginning of time); and, she must be mature enough (age doesn't matter as much as maturity); plus, she must be sensual, at least to me (where the measurement is highly subjective); and, it's often best if she's shorter than I, based on a look at the profile (not because I care - I don't - but many women do - so why waste my time); she must be local (we're talking about profiles, so, this is all stuff you try to figure out before wasting time contacting a person's profile), etc.
The more I think about it, the more "preferences" seem to arise - but most of those ancillary preferences wouldn't be found in a profile itself but only after a few meetings.
For example, she should be healthy (duh). It would be nice if she can converse intelligently. She should probably smell like a woman does (it's one of the measures of femininity, like it or not) and she should likely dress as a woman does (within the norms of culture, of course); she could even sound like a woman (I love the click of heels, for example); and the list seems to go on ...
Then there are the things that we don't prefer...
For example, I don't prefer tattoos; I don't prefer druggies or smokers; I don't prefer women who speak with poor grammar; etc., and I'm sure the not-prefer list exists, in some shape or form, in all our preferences.
But, most of that information won't be in most profiles.
In most profiles, you get the bare basics, one of which is a profile photo.
I guess a strange outcome, from the standpoint of the research, was that the women in the study tended to put more faith (perhaps too much) in the profile photos, than the men did.
EDIT: Here's a summary of the research from the Smithsonian's article:
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In a recent study of about 300 heterosexual volunteers, researchers found that men and women place very different levels of trust in an attractive profile picture.
Men shown images of “beautified” women—with enhanced lighting, hair and makeup—rated them to be hotter but less trustworthy than regular pictures of the same people.
However, women shown enhanced pictures of men said they seemed both more attractive and more trustworthy than their unenhanced counterparts.
“It seems that the women were placing faith in the attractiveness of the males.
It's almost hopeful, as opposed to the fellas who may have taken a more kind of realistic approach,” says co-author Rory McGloin of the University of Connecticut. McGloin and colleagues Amanda Denes and Olivia Kamisher will present their findings this month at the 65th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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