Do you believe in love at first sight: Effects of media richness via modalities on viewers' overall impressions of online dating profiles

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 332-339

  Lee, Seoyeon ^a   Sun, Yuan ^a   Thiry, Elizabeth ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Impression formation; MAIN model; Media richness theory; Modality; Online dating; Social information processing

Indexed keywords

IMPRESSION FORMATION; MAIN MODEL; MEDIA RICHNESS THEORY; MODALITY; ONLINE DATING; SOCIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 79952594037     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1940761.1940807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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