University of Chicago: John Cacioppo

John Cacioppo: The research led by John Cacioppo, a University of Chicago psychology professor who also works as a paid adviser to the online dating site eHarmony, estimated that more than a third of couples who married between 2005 and 2012 met online. Average marital satisfaction ratings by online meeting place Meeting place Score Online community 5.29 Chat room 5.42 Discussion group 5.57 Message on blog 5.59 Virtual world 5.65 Instant messaging 5.66 Email 5.67 Online dating 5.69 Social network 5.72 Multiplayer game 5.72 Other 5.44 Average for all online 5.64, according to CBC. The study analyzed the online survey responses of 19,131 Americans who said they had been married once between 2005 and 2012 and were not engaged to anyone else. The survey was conducted by the polling firm Harris Decima and commissioned by eHarmony and Couples who meet online are slightly less likely to divorce and somewhat happier with their marriages than those who meet offline, a new study suggests. Source: Study by Cacioppo et al. in PNAS (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.