Swipe Right or Left – Café Psychologique 31 May

Relationships in the age of mobile and online dating

The popular mobile dating app, Tinder, allows its users to swipe left or right on potential partners in order to establish compatibility. A recent BBC Horizon program about how to find love online, explored the intricacies of meeting a potential partner through mobile apps like Tinder and other online dating forums. A Ted Talk entitled How I Hacked Online Dating has had nearly 5 million hits.

How does this new way of meeting potential partners change our perspectives and values of relationships? How does this experience compare to how things were before technology could be used in this way? Is it easier or harder to find love in the age of technology?

Of course, Café Psychologique is the perfect environment to talk about this, as it’s been described by one participant as ‘like Twitter, but in person with real people’. So you might learn something, and might even meet someone new. In any case you’ll have chance to talk, listen, think and understand online dating from a psychological perspective

This Café Psychologique will explore dating, relationships, and the digital world. Stephen Mayer is a Clinical Psychologist in training and will introduce our conversation at Café Psychologique Leeds, on Tuesday 31 May from 8.00 pm to 9.45 pm in Seven Arts, Chapel Allerton, Leeds. The Café costs £4 on the door.

There is a poster to download here:
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