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After a summer break, The Science London Dating Games is back!

We’ve got a new game and a new venue but we’re asking the same question; can science help us to find love? This time we are investigating the idea of symbiotic similarities and we are looking to recruit 15 girls and 15 guys looking for a shot at love.

In this edition of The Dating Games, we will be using facial recognition technology to explore previous findings that we are more likely to be physically attracted to people with similar features to our own. Fancy testing this idea? Then come and join the Science London team and research scientists from Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) for the latest instalment of The Dating Games: Rules of Attraction.

Ongoing research at QMUL is looking at how we perceive and recognise facial features in potential partners. The research utilises newly developed facial recognition software to describe faces quantifiably. The software assesses how similar two people look.

How it works
We will be running two speed dating rounds:
1) Virtual dating, which will record the app scores of facial similarity between pairs of participants;
2) Traditional dating, where daters will rate each partner to record heart flutter scores.

Will the app scores sync with the racing hearts? Will we find evidence for the ‘similarities attract’ claim, or will dazzling conversational wit supersede aesthetic appeal? Come along and find out! Read the rest of this entry »

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