OII | Partner Compatibility and Online Dating Sites: Interview with Erina Lee

Recorded:
10 Dec 2011

Speakers:
With Professor Bernie Hogan and Erina Lee

Erina Lee of eHarmony Labs discusses the importance of similarity between partners in the context of different kinds of online relationship. She explains how similarity is indelibly intertwined with long-term relationship satisfaction, and reveals the surprisingly high levels of cultural variation in the way that similarity can be constructed. She goes on to discuss some of the many dimensions of compatibility that have been considered by eHarmony, before giving her thoughts on future directions for research on matchmaking to the OII’s own Bernie Hogan.

Speakers

Professor Bernie Hogan

Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow

Bernie Hogan examines how to capture, represent and think about social networks, especially personal social networks. His work focuses on the role of design in social media, network capture techniques and theories of relationships.

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Erina Lee

eHarmony Labs