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Online daters do better in the marriage stakes

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Those who first find each other through the Internet are more likely to stay hitched.

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  1. Cacioppo, J. T., Cacioppo, S., Gonzaga, G. C., Ogburn, E. L. & VanderWeele, T. J. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1222447110 (2013).

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Nuzzo, R. Online daters do better in the marriage stakes. Nature (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2013.13120

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