ABSTRACT

This study investigated the impact of (the lack of) audiovisual cues during conversations preceding a first face-to-face meeting among prospective daters on daters’ perceptions of partners’ social and romantic attraction. Additionally, the study examined the effect of modality switching, from online to offline interaction. Thirty-nine individuals participated in a round-robin speed dating event, resulting in 95 unique conversation pairings. For their first conversations they were randomly assigned to meet via text-based CMC or videoconferencing. The dyads then had a second encounter, which was face-to-face. Results showed more social attraction between interactants who used text-based CMC than videoconferencing, supporting the hyperpersonal model of CMC. Furthermore, after a modality switch to a face-to-face encounter the hyperpersonal effect persisted for social attraction, while romantic attraction declined.

摘要

这项研究调查了预期约会者在第一次面对面会议之前的对话期间（缺乏）视听线索对约会者对伴侣的社交和浪漫吸引力的感知的影响。此外，研究检查了从在线到离线交互的模态转换的影响。三十九个人参加了一次循环快速约会活动，产生了95个独特的对话配对。对于他们的第一次对话，他们被随机分配通过基于文本的CMC或视频会议开会。然后，二元组进行了第二次面对面的接触。结果显示，使用基于文本的CMC的交互者比使用视频会议的社交者更具社会吸引力，从而支持CMC的超人格模型。此外，