To Tinder or not to Tinder: A Critical Review of Personality Traits and Motives

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Introduction to Research Methods: A Critical Review
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To Tinder or not to Tinder, that's the question: An individual differences perspective to
Tinder use and motives.
(2017)

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................3
How Five Factor Model of Personality relates to popular dating app Tinder................................3
Summary...........................................................................................................................................3
Critical Evaluation.............................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................7

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INTRODUCTION
Tinder is an American networking and online dating application and has become the
world’s most popular dating app, wherein people get an opportunity to meet new people. The
app is increasingly emerging as a popular platform for meeting new people (Boudouresque
and et.al., 2021). Also, there are not a lot of critical review articles that have been conducted
for this research article. This report will provide a critical report and review of a research
article on the topic, “To Tinder or Not to Tinder, that’s the Question: An Individual
Differences Perspective to Tinder Use and Motives”. This critical review will include an
analysis of the respective article.
How Five Factor Model of Personality relates to popular dating app Tinder.
The five factors of the respective model include extraversion, agreeableness,
contentiousness, neuroticism as well as openness to experience. These ae the five traits of a
person’s personality and it can be said that it relates to the popular dating app Tinder because
different people with different personalities get an opportunity to interact with each other.
These traits describe stable patterns of behaviors among different people.
Summary
The authors of the respective article are Timmermans, E., & De Caluwé, E and they
have clearly mentioned the research hypothesis. The respective research article aims at
investigating how the Five-Factor Model of personality relates to both Tinder use and
motives. The strengths of the study that were analysed during the critical review were that
the authors have divided the research into different sections so that it is easy for the readers to
develop an understanding of the research study in an effective manner (Lai and et.al., 2021).
The major arguments of the research are based on the Big Five personality traits that have
often been studied in relation to the use of online dating sites (To Tinder or not to Tinder,