{"id":127293,"date":"2021-05-27T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=127293"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:39","slug":"what-do-we-look-for-in-a-romantic-partner-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/05\/27\/what-do-we-look-for-in-a-romantic-partner-during-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"What do we look for in a romantic partner during the pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is the pandemic doing to our partner preferences? Nine international academics, including communications scientist Elisabeth Timmermans, sought to answer that question by creating a survey, to which 540 single persons responded.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019d be interested in setting up a study on the impact of coronavirus on dating life and relationships,\u201d communications scientist Elisabeth Timmermans said on twitter<\/a> in March 2020, at the start of the pandemic. \u201cSo, relationship researchers, who\u2019s in?\u201d<\/p>\n

Timmermans had conducted research on singles before. In that previous study, she examined what she called the \u2018Bridget Jones Effect\u2019: women who watch a lot of romantic TV shows or films are more afraid of remaining single than women who don\u2019t. \u201cSo what we\u2019re talking about here is the fact that the context may have an impact on your fear of being single. If certain types of content make you feel more afraid of being single, how might the experience of a global pandemic impact your fear of being single?\u201c<\/p>\n\n\t

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