The Journal of Speed Dating Studies

Speed-Dating

Eli J. Finkel and Paul W. Eastwick

KEYWORDS

speed-dating • romantic attraction • relationships • thin slices • social relations model

ABSTRACT—Scholars have recently begun to harness the immense power of speed-dating procedures to achieve important and novel insights into the dynamics of romantic attraction. Speed-dating procedures allow researchers to study romantic dynamics dyadically, with regard to potentially meaningful relationships, and with strong external validity. This article highlights the strengths and promise of speed-dating procedures, reviews some of their most exciting contributions to our understanding of the social psyche, and illustrates how scholars can employ speed-dating and its straightforward variants to study topics relevant to diverse subfields of psychological science.

Current Directions in Psychological Science, Volume 17 Issue 3, Pages 193 - 197.