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Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/9/2015 6:20:14 PM

crumpets

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The results of this study haven't been presented yet to the International Communication Association, but I figured I'd let you know that it seems women and men perceive "doctored" photos differently on profiles such as Facebook (and, I dare say, probably Collarme, since men and women don't change stripes as they change web sites), with respect to two major concerns:
A. Trust
B. Willingness to date[image][/image]

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“Trust is an important part of any relationship, and it certainly plays an important role in the forging of new social bonds in the dating context,” McGloin said. “Yet, we found an interesting relationship between attractiveness and trust for males who were viewing female profile pictures.”

Apparently, according to the University of Connecticut researchers, men perceived two things when women doctored their profile photographs with Photoshop:
1. They trusted them less, yet, at the same time,
2. They still found the doctored profiles far more attractive; hence - worth the risk!

Fancy that! :)

According to Professor McGloin, for men, “attraction seems to be more important than trust.”
The Smithsonian has a good article on this, comparing the response of the women to the men, and finding them worlds apart (surprise, surprise).

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/9/2015 8:16:46 PM

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I would think it depends on the level of doctoring. Like, if I photoshop a few extremely minor blemishes out of my picture to increase the overall polished affect, does that make me less trustworthy? But if someone was on the larger side in real life and had a profile picture photoshopped to make them look noticeably skinny, I can see why that might seem deceptive...

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/9/2015 8:18:57 PM

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Confession: I'm not sepia-toned in real life.

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/9/2015 9:52:33 PM

Cell

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This study seems like a waste of time. (But still interesting)
If I told you that the first question I use to dismiss a woman's profile is "is she fat?" Would that make me more trustworthy or less? I've been brutally honest, and yet what exactly is someone trusting in when they "trust". I'd say, it's probably a question of the likelihood of being hurt. In that case my honesty would seem to say being hurt by me is highly likely...

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/9/2015 10:19:06 PM

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ORIGINAL: crumpets

Apparently, according to the University of Connecticut researchers, men perceived two things when women doctored their profile photographs with Photoshop:
1. They trusted them less, yet, at the same time,
2. They still found the doctored profiles far more attractive; hence - worth the risk!

Fancy that! :)

According to Professor McGloin, for men, “attraction seems to be more important than trust.”

It's called "Thinking-With-Dick-itis," and is nothing new. . . nor is this ever going to change any time soon.

DreamLady

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/9/2015 10:26:19 PM

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I've never encountered an instance where compatibility was overturned by aesthetics, personally. This gets me in more trouble than you might believe, as I know far too many women who think I need to consider them pretty before I consider them anything else (kind, trustworthy, reliable, intelligent, irreverent, mischevious, considerate).

For this, I blame marketing, and perhaps my own internal sense of priorities. (If a girl is hawt then that is awesome; if she can enjoy a lazy snuggle with soft music and casual conversation about life, with real wonder and curiosity, then that is simply more important. Oh, and if she thinks I'm too ugly, she can have another bottle of wine; and when the alcohol hits I might seem more appealing or at the very least, more amusing.)

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/9/2015 10:46:19 PM

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ORIGINAL: Cell

This study seems like a waste of time. (But still interesting)
If I told you that the first question I use to dismiss a woman's profile is "is she fat?" Would that make me more trustworthy or less? I've been brutally honest, and yet what exactly is someone trusting in when they "trust". I'd say, it's probably a question of the likelihood of being hurt. In that case my honesty would seem to say being hurt by me is highly likely...

Not likely at all.

You being honest about your preferences is the only way to go.

No one ever gets hurt by honestly stating what they want.

What's amusing though, is men who say they don't like larger women in their profiles and yet constantly write to those women.

So in that respect, I don't believe what anyone says, only what they do.

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/9/2015 11:31:50 PM

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Furthermore, this is what I can deduce from a silly Anglophile avatar on this very site.

- Male sub trying to give impression he is a service-oriented sub is anything but.

- Married-to-a-vanilla player has multiple married and single profiles.

- At least two of them are of Doms from over the past 5-8 years, too many switch & sub profiles to count.

- Most consistent pattern is to describe how well he can spell the alphabet, Shakespeare, the Gettysburg Address, War & Peace, whateverTF out on a woman's clit.

- Likes to also post on his own threads under one of his aliases and/or sock puppets, where he is obsessed with statistical minutiae, inter alia.

There, sheer speculation on my part, of course.

DreamLady

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/10/2015 1:39:36 AM

Cell

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Haven't you ever heard the saying, "the truth hurts" sexyred1?

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/10/2015 2:45:18 AM

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They trusted them less, but still wanted to date them. Great! For what? How did that attitude of lessened trust affect their attitudes going into the dating?

Frankly, although the study proved something that is pretty obvious (men respond to attractive photos), it fall far short of providing new and useful information.

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ORIGINAL: Cell
If I told you that the first question I use to dismiss a woman's profile is "is she fat?" Would that make me more trustworthy or less? I've been brutally honest, and yet what exactly is someone trusting in when they "trust". I'd say, it's probably a question of the likelihood of being hurt. In that case my honesty would seem to say being hurt by me is highly likely...

More trustworthy. And less likely to get a date with me (not that you would try). Not because I'm fat, but because I don't bring overtly (and self-proclaimed) judgmental people into my life knowingly.

Simple incompatibility would trump trust.

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/10/2015 2:59:24 AM

Cell

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What's judgemental about finding obesity unattractive? Or are you referring to something else I've said somewhere?

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/10/2015 3:56:01 AM

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They trusted them less, but still wanted to date them. Great! For what? How did that attitude of lessened trust affect their attitudes going into the dating?

The little head doesn't care.

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/10/2015 3:56:38 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Cell

This study seems like a waste of time. (But still interesting)
If I told you that the first question I use to dismiss a woman's profile is "is she fat?" Would that make me more trustworthy or less? I've been brutally honest, and yet what exactly is someone trusting in when they "trust". I'd say, it's probably a question of the likelihood of being hurt. In that case my honesty would seem to say being hurt by me is highly likely...

I'm not sure what that has to do with being trustworthy. It does tell me you are more interested in appearance then who a person is, but that just says you are shallow, not dishonest. And in that case you being ignored is much more likely than me being hurt by you.

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/10/2015 4:25:04 AM

Kaliko

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ORIGINAL: Cell

What's judgemental about finding obesity unattractive? Or are you referring to something else I've said somewhere?

Oh. Are you new here? :)

There is nothing judgmental about it. Whatever a person bases someone's compatibility potential on is their business and is not wrong.

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/10/2015 3:04:31 PM

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So is it this article that prompted your comfort food pic for your avatar? A nice hot cup of tea and some cookies have universal appeal I would think.

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/10/2015 6:32:02 PM

Cell

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

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ORIGINAL: Cell

This study seems like a waste of time. (But still interesting)
If I told you that the first question I use to dismiss a woman's profile is "is she fat?" Would that make me more trustworthy or less? I've been brutally honest, and yet what exactly is someone trusting in when they "trust". I'd say, it's probably a question of the likelihood of being hurt. In that case my honesty would seem to say being hurt by me is highly likely...

I'm not sure what that has to do with being trustworthy.

That was pretty much what I was trying to point out.

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It does tell me you are more interested in appearance then who a person is, but that just says you are shallow,

I'm interested in both to some extent. I'm probably more picky, than shallow.
But I understand how body image is a touchy subject.

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/10/2015 6:37:19 PM

Cell

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Lol. Good to know Kaliko. Thanks.

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/11/2015 2:59:46 AM

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ORIGINAL: Cell
What's judgemental about finding obesity unattractive? Or are you referring to something else I've said somewhere?

It's not that you find obesity unattractive. It's that it is the first thing you consider, and you imply that you use it as a black-or-white issue.

I have found through experience that people who think that way, or rather people who specifically proclaim that they think that way, are not overall good fits for me, at least in an intimate relationship, as it points to particular rigid patterns of thought.

Not that we could not be friends or buddies or whatever. We could, potentially, since stating a preference does not make you a bad person by any stretch. Hell, I have my own preferences, for sure.

Does that help clarify?

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ORIGINAL: Kana

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They trusted them less, but still wanted to date them. Great! For what? How did that attitude of lessened trust affect their attitudes going into the dating?

The little head doesn't care.

Oh, I know. I knew that before reading this study.

I'm talking more about the Madonna/Whore dichotomy, and whether the lack of trust might lead to a more casual and "see what I can get" relationship, versus something of more substance.

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ORIGINAL: Cell

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi
It does tell me you are more interested in appearance then who a person is, but that just says you are shallow,

I'm interested in both to some extent. I'm probably more picky, than shallow.
But I understand how body image is a touchy subject.

Yes, it is, for many. Like sexuality. For example, in OkCupid, when someone contacts me, I immediately go check out the "unacceptable answers."

If they have answered that they believe homosexuality is a sin (without a good explanation of their personal beliefs and how that leads them to interact with people), then I will know we are not a good match. Not because I don't believe they have a right to that faith, or that they are bad people. Because I have people in my life I care about very much who would be hurt by someone judging them that way... and I have no desire to have a partner who cannot accept my best friend for who he is and love him as I do.

Oh, and because I am bi.

It's a simple thing.

And I'm being just as judgmental, in my own way, really. I'm just basing it on what you actually say about yourself and who you show yourself to be as a person, rather than how you look.

In this case. *smiles* I have overall physical preferences, too.

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/11/2015 4:05:46 AM

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i'd like to put on record that i am not black and white in reality. oh and for that matter thats not even me. meh.

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RE: Your Profile Picture Affects Whether People Trust You - 5/11/2015 8:15:27 AM

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ORIGINAL: dreamlady

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ORIGINAL: crumpets

Apparently, according to the University of Connecticut researchers, men perceived two things when women doctored their profile photographs with Photoshop:
1. They trusted them less, yet, at the same time,
2. They still found the doctored profiles far more attractive; hence - worth the risk!

Fancy that! :)

According to Professor McGloin, for men, “attraction seems to be more important than trust.”

It's called "Thinking-With-Dick-itis," and is nothing new. . . nor is this ever going to change any time soon.

DreamLady

What does that say then about those women who have pictures of themselves bent over displaying a rear view, spread, showing their Tits...clamped or not, bound or not? Is it a recognition of "dick-itis", do they think it increases their chances? Why would they need to? Aren't there more dominant males than submissive females on here? And the FemDoms who display a great deal of skin...Or toys...who state that they have no desire to indulge the sub males' masochistic and/or sexual wants? Are they addressing "dick-itis" also?

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