DHB: Large-Scale Analysis of Computer-Mediated Social Relationship

这是一项关于社会关系形成和发展的大规模研究，利用了一个非常大的在线个人网站。几十年来，心理学家一直在研究人际吸引和社会关系。然而，关系的形成--吸引力和稳定关系之间的中介过程--一直没有得到充分的研究。这在很大程度上是因为在这个微妙的阶段招募研究参与者很困难；第二次约会的二人(对)不会响应夫妇研究的招募请求，因为在这一点上，人们自己不知道他们是否会成为伴侣。理解是什么导致了成功的关系，是理解成功关系的关键一步。这项研究将捕捉到关系形成的早期阶段。通过跟踪交流双方在面对面见面之前、通过面对面的会面以及建立关系的过程，研究人员将能够在关键但含糊的关系形成过程中了解他们对彼此的看法。在每一步，都会有一些二元体融化--也就是说，有些二元体永远不会见面，而在那些见面的人中，只有一小部分会形成关系--但通过在数十万人中进行初步抽样，这项研究将确保有一大批参与者确实会发展到一段全面的关系。心理学家长期以来一直在寻找这种规模和范围的纵向数据，但到目前为止还没有实际的方法获得。这项工作是社会心理学、人机交互和定量社会学领域方法的跨学科组合。它将使用人格研究中的问卷技术，其结果将通过统计方法进行分析，包括结构方程模型和事件历史分析。将根据统计分析的结果开发替代用户界面。随后将进行新一轮问卷调查和分析，以确定干预的效果。这项研究将通过加深我们对关系形成过程的总体理解来推动科学知识的发展，规模足够大，足以广泛推广，并具有统计学上的威力。这一结果应该会为社会心理学中的几个重要问题提供新的解释，包括个性和态度相似性在长期关系满意度和成功中的作用，以及积极和真实的自我表现之间的平衡，以形成关系。这项研究也将有助于我们进一步了解网络沟通对人际关系形成的影响。了解人际关系与计算机沟通的兼容性应有助于改进许多领域的协作流程，包括在远程教育中共同工作的学生，并促进企业、政府和其他组织在地理上分散的团队形成。

This is a study of social relationship formation and development, on a massive scale, making use of a very large online personals website. For decades, psychologists have studied interpersonal attraction and social relationships. Yet relationship formation - the intervening process between attraction and a stable relationship - has been understudied. This is due in large part to the difficulty of recruiting study participants at this delicate stage; a dyad (pair) on a second date will not respond to a recruitment call for a couples study because, at that point, the people themselves do not know if they will become a couple. Understanding what leads to successful formation is a critical step in understanding successful relationships generally. The research will capture relationship formation at its early stages. By tracking communicating dyads before they meet in person, through their face-to-face meeting, and on to the establishment of a relationship, researchers will have access to their perceptions of each other throughout the crucial but ambiguous process of relationship formation. At each step, some dyads will dissolve - that is, some will never meet in person, and of those that do, only a fraction will form a relationship - but by taking an initial sample in the hundreds of thousands, the research will be assured of a large set of participants who do progress to a full-fledged relationship. Psychologists have long sought longitudinal data of this scale and scope but until now have had no practical way to obtain it.The work is an interdisciplinary combination of methods from the fields of social psychology, human-computer interaction, and quantitative sociology. It will use questionnaire techniques from personality studies, the results of which will be analyzed with statistical methods including structural equation models and event-history analysis. An alternative user interface will be developed on the basis of results of the statistical analyses. This will be followed by a new round of questionnaires and analysis to determine the effects of the intervention. The research will advance scientific knowledge by deepening our understanding of relationship formation processes in general, on a scale large enough to be broadly generalizable and statistically powerful. The results should shed new light on several important questions in social psychology, including the role of personality and attitudinal similarity in long-term relationship satisfaction and success, and the balance between positive and authentic self-presentation for relationship formation. This research will also contribute further to our understanding of the effects of computer-mediated communication on interpersonal relationship formation. An understanding of interpersonal compatibility over computer-mediated communication should help improve collaborative processes in many spheres, including students working together in distance education, and facilitate geographically dispersed team formation for businesses, government, and other organizations.