Abstract
Scholars have recently begun to harness the immense power of speed-dating procedures to achieve important and novel insights into the dynamics of romantic attraction. Speed-dating procedures allow researchers to study romantic dynamics dyadically, with regard to potentially meaningful relationships, and with strong external validity. This article highlights the strengths and promise of speed-dating procedures, reviews some of their most exciting contributions to our understanding of the social psyche, and illustrates how scholars can employ speed-dating and its straightforward variants to study topics relevant to diverse subfields of psychological science.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 193-197 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Current Directions in Psychological Science |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2008 |
Keywords
- Relationships
- Romantic attraction
- Social relations model
- Speed-dating
- Thin slices
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Psychology