Evaluations of online dating profiles by race, gender, and history of incarceration

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Frankie Kennedy, Syracuse University; Sara Emily Burke, Syracuse University; Mackenzie Ess, Syracuse University; William Chopik, Michigan State University

Version:  View help for Version V1

Name File Type Size Last Modified
  Study-1 07/26/2021 12:15:AM
  Study-2 07/26/2021 12:16:AM

Project Citation: 

Kennedy, Frankie, Burke, Sara Emily, Ess, Mackenzie, and Chopik, William. Evaluations of online dating profiles by race, gender, and history of incarceration. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-07-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/E146022V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary In two studies, we exposed participants to novel online dating profiles varying in apparent race, gender, and history of incarceration. We led participants to believe that we were testing unconventional dating profile formats in order to develop a new dating service. Participants rated the profiles on various dimensions, including their appeal to potential mates.

Data for Study 1 were collected via Amazon Mechanical Turk from 2018-06-06 to 2018-06-07. Data for Study 2 were collected via Prolific from 2019-10-31 to 2019-11-05.

In the data files, a value of -99 indicates that the participant saw the item in question but chose not to respond to it. For other notes, see the text files included in this archive.

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Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms online dating; incarceration; stigma; race; prejudice
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States of America
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 6/6/2018 – 6/7/2018; 10/31/2019 – 11/5/2019


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