Dating Apps: How our Brains React

Question 1

Cope With

Answer 1

Another way of saying difficult to manage/deal with is “difficult to cope with”.

Whereas the rate of rejection on dating apps is so high it’s often hard to cope with one coming after another.

Question 2

Dust Yourself Off

Answer 2

You can dust yourself off which is a way of saying you think positively to make yourself feel better.
Imagine falling over on the ground, when you get up, you might be covered in dust & dirt, you need to dust yourself off before you can carry on.

… dust yourself off & get on with it. … .

Question 3

Get Over

Answer 3

The phrasal verb “get over”, You might need some time to feel better.

So in real life You’ll have time to, sort of, compute the rejection, get over it a little bit, & dust youself off & get on with it.

Question 4

Instantaneous

Answer 4

The adj. instantaneous which means immediate.

It’s very easy to think that just with these instantaneous swipe left, swipe right, that the process in our brain of how … .
In real life You could meet someone you don’t find attractive instantaneously &
then get to know them & find that you quite like them. Yes, this is true, but then possibly they won’t like You & You have to deal with rejection.

Question 5

Rejection

Answer 5

Rejection is when someone doesn’t find you attractive &
they don’t want to spend time with you or get to know You.

We see that a lot of the pattern associated with rejection in real life & rejection on dating apps are similar, it’s just the exposure to the rate of the amount of rejection you get on dating app is a lot higher than the one in real life.

Question 6

Swipe

Answer 6

To swipe is the movement of your finger on a smartphone to change the screen you are looking @.

What we mean by swipe left & swipe right?

In the UK, approximately how many marriages start with the couple meeting online?
One in three.
We don’t want you to reject us, so … .
It’s the sign of the time Rob, Digital world, Digital dating.