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Why Tinder is so 'evilly satisfying'

  • Written by Jeanette Purvis, Ph.D. Student in Psychology, University of Hawaii

In America, 60 percent of digital media consumption now occurs on mobile or tablet devices instead of desktop computers.

As people and technology have become increasingly mobile, so have their efforts to find love and sex. According to app analytics website AppAnnie, the dating application Tinder is one of the most popular tools to pursue modern...

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