People who use saucy images on dating apps are seen as stupid and unlikeable - study

According to a University of Arizona study, users of popular dating platforms, such as Bumble, Tinder and Hinge, are less likely to find love if they ham up their sex appeal in their snaps as people think you seem incompetent and unlikeable.

These findings came after they asked 262 heterosexual people to look at what they thought were real dating profiles. Men were judged more harshly than women The report – led by Kun Yan and a team of researchers, said “Our results found that sexualised dating profiles incurred social costs (e.g., less perceived task competence, less liking and social attractiveness) and were also at an increased likelihood of experiencing sexual cyber dating abuse than were their non-sexualised counterparts.”

Men were judged more harshly than women

“We theorise that the norms of the heterosexual script may partially explain this.”

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