It's not that people's profiles are dishonest, says Catalina Toma of Wisconsin-Madison University, "but they portray an idealised version of themselves".

威斯康星麦迪逊大学的卡特琳娜·托马说，这并不是说人们的简介不真实，“而是他们描绘了一个理想化的自己”。

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Academics asked 50 female university students to examine profiles and pictures of 100 men aged 22-25 who had posted on a popular dating website.

研究人员请50个女大学生在一家很流行的约会网站上看了100位年龄在22 - 25岁之间男性的个人信息与照片。

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Researchers at Villanova University in Philadelphia asked 50 college-aged women to study the profiles of 100 men ages 22 to 25 who posted on a popular dating website.

费城Villanova大学的研究者让50名二十出头的女性研读了100名22 - 25岁男性在某著名交友网站上填写的资料。

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As students at the university created profiles, he noticed that they wanted to see what other students at the school are working on.

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Jason Kaufman, a research science fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, examined the Facebook profiles of a group of college students over four years and found that even within Facebook, there's evidence of self-segregation.

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In an experiment, three "raters" comprising one university professor and two students were presented with the Facebook profiles of 56 college students with jobs.

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