Martin Graff, PhD

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY - LOVE DIGITALLY

Love Digitally features a series of articles on how people conduct romantic relationships online. 

1.  Successful Online Dating

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• Five Steps to Online Dating

• Why Dating Site Profile Pictures Differ

• Five Ways to Improve Your Chances of Successful Online Dating

• Five Quick Ways to Enhance Your Online Dating Profile

• This can Give you the Advantage in Online Dating

• Which is the Best Dating Site or App to Use

• Four Clues Your Online Relationship Will be Happy Ever After

• Seven Steps to Being Successful in Online Dating

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2.  Making Decisions in Online Dating

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• What’s Your Online Dating Style?

• What can Online Dating Really Tell You?

• Is There ‘Someone for Everyone’?

• What’s Behind a Dating Profile

• Do Attractive Men Want Everything?

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3.  Messaging

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• What to Say (Or Not) When Introducing Yourself

• What you Should Say in Your First Online Dating Message

• Why do we Flirt by Text?

• Be More Successful in Online Dating – Use Humour

• How Does Online Communication Influence First Date Success?

• Is Romantic Success Related to Emoji Use?

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4.  Tinder

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• Tinder Users are Different to Online Daters and Here’s How

• Improving Your Chances on Tinder

• Why do we use Tinder?  It may not be What you Think

• Who Trolls on Tinder?

• Are we Making the Right Dating Decisions?

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5.  Problems in Online Dating

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• Seven Research-Based Reasons Internet Dating Doesn't Work

• Do You Find Online Dating Confusing?  This May be Why

• Is Online Dating the Best way to find a Partner?

• Four Possible Reasons Explaining Online Dating Rejection

• Online Dating: Is Age and Issue?

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6.  Face-to-Face Meeting

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• The Function of Nonverbal Behaviour in Human Courtship

• It’s What Online Dating Can’t Tell You

• Can Being Scared Make Someone Appear More Attractive?

• How Other People Make you More Attractive

• How to Prepare for a First Date

7.  Online Jealousy

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• Should you Check Your Partner’s Texts?

• Does Social Media Help or Hurt Relationships?

• Are you Facebook Official?

• Can Snapchat Cause Jealousy?

• How Your Partner’s Phone Causes Jealousy

8.  Online Infidelity

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• Why Women Have Affairs

• What is Online Infidelity?

• Is Online Infidelity Really Infidelity?

• Is Online Infidelity Just Micro-cheating?

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9.  Online Surveillance

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• Who’s Checking on Whom?

• Should You Remain Facebook Friends With Your Ex?

• Who Gets Suspicious on Facebook?

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10.  Dating Scams

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• Online Dating – The Dark Side

• How Likely are you to be Scammed in Online Dating

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11.  Special Occasion Dating

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• Constructing a Valentine’s Day Dating Profile

• Will you Fall In Love ‘Online’ This Valentine’s Day?

• Five Reasons for Online Dating at Christmas

• Is LGBT Online Dating Different?

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12.  Smartphones

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• Is Your Smartphone Your Best Friend?

• Why You Can’t be Without Your Phone

• Why You use Your Smartphone too Much

• Why is Your Partner’s Smartphone use an Issue?

• Is Ignoring Someone to use Your Phone Acceptable?

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13.  Sexting

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• Does Sexting Have Benefits for Your Relationship?

• What Your Sexting Style Says About you and Your Relationship

14.  Facebook

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• What People are Looking at in Your Facebook Profile

• Do you Crave Facebook Likes?

• What Influences Facebook Friendship Acceptance?

• Are you Taking too Many Selfies?

• Is It Ever Acceptable to Self-Promote on Facebook?

• Is Using Instagram Beneficial to our Wellbeing?