Speed-Dating
- 1 June 2008
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Vol. 17 (3), 193-197
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00573.x
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.Keywords
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