Name: Dating apps: How our brains react
Uploaded: 2018-09-14T10:09:33.000Z
Duration: 6 min 18 s
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Dan: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Dan.

imagine turning the page in a book, well,

If you do like them, you swipe right. If you

shortly, but first, a question. In the UK,

a) One in three, b) One in four, or c) One in five.

Rob: Well, all of those seem quite high to me,

Dan: Well, we'll find out if you're right later in the

people in real life. What difference does

Alice Gray: It's very easy to think that just with

right, that the process in our brain of how

we pick out a suitable mate would be very

different, when actually it's really similar

Rob: So she says that what goes on in our

brains is actually very similar. Online we

'instantaneous' for this. So we make these

swipe left or swipe right. In real life, we do

see someone, if we find them attractive or not.

Dan: Although of course in digital dating,

once you've swiped left you will never see

attractive instantaneously and then get to

know them and find that you do quite like them.

Rob: Yes, this is true, but then possibly

they won't like you. And then you have to

they don't want to spend time with you or

Dan: So, what's the difference in our brains

patterns associated with rejection in real

similar, it's just the exposure to the rate of the

apps is a lot higher than the ones in real

life. So in real life you'll have time to, sort

little bit, and dust yourself off and get on

on dating apps is so high it's often hard

to cope with one coming in after another.

Rob: So, she says that our brain's response

to real life and online rejection is quite

similar, but in the digital world you can be

Dan: In real life you have a bit more time

to recover from the rejection, to get over it,

and dirt, you need to dust yourself off to

Rob: In the online world though, you don't

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