Looking for love? Take a cross-cultural walk through the personals

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 223-233

  Parekh, R ^a   Beresin, E V ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LOVE; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035661560     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.25.4.223     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. The new mating game: Matchmaking via the personal columns in the 1980s
2. Advertising as a strategy for meeting people
3. Responses to "lonely hearts" advertisements: Effects of reported physical attractiveness, physique, and coloration
4. Family values
5. Let's make a deal: An analysis of revelations and stipulations in lonely hearts advertisements
6. Courtship in the personals column: The influence of gender and sexual orientation
7. People as products: Analysis of a complex marketing exchange
8. Single white male looking for thin, very attractive
9. Matchmaking via the personal advertisements in China vs. in the United States
10. Uncertain objects of desire