I wonder if the dating apps just make it more salient to men that many (most?) women don’t find them attractive? And that there really are men with a lot more sexual partners than other men? When people were meeting each other in real life, there would be a lot of clues that a woman was interested in a man, so men could focus their atten…
I wonder if the dating apps just make it more salient to men that many (most?) women don’t find them attractive? And that there really are men with a lot more sexual partners than other men? When people were meeting each other in real life, there would be a lot of clues that a woman was interested in a man, so men could focus their attention on women who showed indications of interest. I bet the success rate of getting a date per approach was a lot higher then, so maybe men felt better because they were focusing their attention on women who they had some reason to think were interested in them, and not focusing on all the women who weren’t.
I wonder if the dating apps just make it more salient to men that many (most?) women don’t find them attractive? And that there really are men with a lot more sexual partners than other men? When people were meeting each other in real life, there would be a lot of clues that a woman was interested in a man, so men could focus their attention on women who showed indications of interest. I bet the success rate of getting a date per approach was a lot higher then, so maybe men felt better because they were focusing their attention on women who they had some reason to think were interested in them, and not focusing on all the women who weren’t.