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In the late 1990s, dating was still fairly low tech. In my search for love, I had to place a personal in an actual physical magazine and they would send the actual physical replies to my flat. Guardian Soulmates took it up a notch: you recorded a greeting, and then phoned in nervously to listen to any messages left for you. I received just the one. It said: 'Actually, you sound rather boring, I don't think I'll bother.'
So has the dawn of apps made the game of love even more cruel? On p.46, Hannah Potts looks at the evidence. If that leaves you hankering for a bit of kindness and compassion, Lee Rowland (p.30) and Paul Gilbert (p.36) have it covered.
For more on dating and attraction, why not revisit the very ï¬rst episode of our Research Digest podcast PsychCrunch, via digest (bps.org.uk/podcast).
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Good grief
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Kindness - Society's golden chain?
Lee Rowland
'Compassion is an antidote to cruelty'
Kal Kseib meets Paul Gilbert
'I'm happy to be an academic and a psychologist committed to positive change'
We talk to Ashley Weinberg
'You can always press delete'
Should we keep playing the game of love? Hannah Potts wonders.
The age of illusions
Nicholas Wade on a new world in the 19th century
Looking back
Chris Timms on Field Marshal Montgomery
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