Homophily in online dating: When do you like someone like yourself?

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1371-1374

  Fiore, Andrew T ^a   Donath, Judith S ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Attraction; Computer mediated communication; Online dating; Online personals; Relationships

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTION; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; ONLINE DATING; ONLINE PERSONALS; RELATIONSHIPS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84869116196     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1056919     Document Type: Conference Paper

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