Current facets (Pre-Master)
dr. (Elisabeth) E.B.R. Timmermans
- Location
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Room
- -
- Telephone
- timmermans@eshcc.eur.nl
Profile
Elisabeth Timmermans received a LEaDing Fellows scholarship and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Media & Communication. In 2017 she obtained her doctoral degree in communication science at the KU Leuven (Belgium). In her dissertation, she explored the mediatization of casual sexual intimacy by examining 1) whether Belgian emerging adults engage in casual sex, 2) how popular U.S. television shows portray casual sexual scripts, and 3) whether Tinder leads to more casual sex. At the Erasmus University Rotterdam, she will continue research in the line of mobile dating. While she questioned in her dissertation whether Tinder leads to…
Elisabeth Timmermans received a LEaDing Fellows scholarship and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Media & Communication. In 2017 she obtained her doctoral degree in communication science at the KU Leuven (Belgium). In her dissertation, she explored the mediatization of casual sexual intimacy by examining 1) whether Belgian emerging adults engage in casual sex, 2) how popular U.S. television shows portray casual sexual scripts, and 3) whether Tinder leads to more casual sex. At the Erasmus University Rotterdam, she will continue research in the line of mobile dating. While she questioned in her dissertation whether Tinder leads to more casual sex, she now moves her focus to mobile dating practices. Although more and more people are these days actively pursuing relationships on mobile dating apps and online dating websites, her dissertation findings showed that only a minority actually succeed in finding a romantic partner. It seems that much of the confusion already starts online, as people often have different motives and expectations on online dating platforms. By applying both interpersonal communication theories and media theories, she hopes to find out where it goes wrong and help online daters improve their dating practices.
You can find more information about Elisabeth’s research findings on her personal website www.liefdeintijdenvantinder.be
Elisabeth also tweets as @MissCarpenters about interesting research findings related to her topics of interest (https://twitter.com/MissCarpenters).
- E.B.R. Timmermans, E. De Caluwé & C. Alexopoulos (2018). Why are you cheating on tinder? Exploring users' motives and (dark) personality traits. Computers in Human Behavior, 89, 129-139. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2018.07.040
- E.B.R. Timmermans & J. Van den Bulck (2018). Casual Sexual Scripts on the Screen: A Quantitative Content Analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47 (5), 1481-1496. doi: 10.1007/s10508-018-1147-1
- E.B.R. Timmermans & C. Courtois (2018). From swiping to casual sex and/or committed relationships: Exploring the experiences of Tinder users. The Information Society, 34 (2), 59-70. doi: 10.1080/01972243.2017.1414093[go to publisher's site]
- C. Courtois & E.B.R. Timmermans (2018). Cracking the Tinder Code: An Experience Sampling Approach to the Dynamics and Impact of Platform Governing Algorithms. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 23 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1093/jcmc/zmx001[go to publisher's site]
- E.B.R. Timmermans, L. Coenen & J. Van den Bulck (2017). The Bridget Jones Effect: The Relationship Between Exposure to Romantic Media Contents and Fear of Being Single Among Emerging Adults. Psychology of Popular Media Culture. doi: 10.1037/ppm0000175
- E. Dorrance Hall, J. McNallie, K. Custers, E.B.R. Timmermans, S.R. Wilson & J. Van den Bulck (2017). A cross-cultural examination of the mediating role of family support and parental advice quality on the relationship between family communication patterns and first-year college student adjustment in the United States and Belgium. Communication Research (print), 44 (5), 638-667. doi: 10.1177/0093650216657755
- E.B.R. Timmermans & E. De Caluwé (2017). To Tinder or not to Tinder, that's the question: An individual differences perspective to Tinder use and motives. Personality and Individual Differences, 110, 74-79. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.01.026
- E.B.R. Timmermans & E. De Caluwé (2017). Development and validation of the Tinder Motives Scale (TMS). Computers in Human Behavior, 70, 341-350. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.01.028
- E.B.R. Timmermans & G.G. Sparks (2017). Personality Traits: Influence on Media Effects. In P. Rössler (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Media Effects. Wiley Blackwell: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Academic Researcher
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- Department
- Department of Media and Communication
- Country
- The Netherlands
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