Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Online dating services enable individuals to use the internet to find a romantic partner, which results in an abundance of potential online romantic partners.This overload of potential romantic partners increases temptation and ease with which an initial partner choice can be reversed (i.e., a decrease in choice satisfaction regarding initial partner choice).Not only characteristics of the choice itself, also individual differences in decisiveness could affect choice satisfaction.This experiment investigates the effects of individual differences in decisiveness (action versus state orientation) and choice reversibility on dating choice satisfaction, while drawing on decision reversibility and action control theory frameworks.Participants were instructed to review 24 profiles on an online dating website and choose a potential romantic partner.Subsequently, participants filled in a questionnaire regarding action-/state-orientation of the individual.Participants' decisions were characterized as either reversible or irreversible.A week after making a selection, no difference was found in experienced choice satisfaction between state oriented individuals (versus action oriented individuals) in a(n) (ir)reversible condition.
Author: Ouden, Ward den
Language: English
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7027579487