Presenting Your Best Self(ie): The Influence of Gender on Vertical Orientation of Selfies on Tinder

When taking a self-portrait or “selfie” to display in an online dating profile, individuals may intuitively manipulate the vertical camera angle to embody how they want to be perceived by the opposite sex. Concepts from evolutionary psychology and grounded cognition suggest that this manipulation ca...

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Main Authors: Lorin J. Elias, Jennifer R. Sedgewick, Meghan E. Flath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00604/full