doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246350engBarrada, J.R.Castro, Á.Fernández del Río, E.Ramos-Villagrasa, P.J.Do young dating app users and non-users differ in mating orientations?ART-2021-123222In recent years, dating apps have changed the way people meet and communicate with potential romantic and/or sexual partners. There exists a stereotype considering that these apps are used only for casual sex, so those apps would not be an adequate resource to find a long-term relationship. The objective of this study was to analyze possible individual differences in the mating orientations (short-term vs. long-term) between users and non-users of dating apps. Participants were 902 single students from a mid-size Spanish university, of both sexes (63% female, and 37% male), aged between 18 and 26 years (M = 20.34, SD = 2.05), who completed a battery of online questionnaires. It was found that, whereas dating apps users had a higher short-term mating orientation than non-users (more frequent behavior, higher desire, and more positive attitude), there were no differences in the long-term orientation as a function of use/non-use. Considering this, dating apps are a resource with a strong presence of people interested on hooking-up while, simultaneously, not a bad (nor good) option for finding long-term love.2021http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/9972310.1371/journal.pone.0246350http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/99723oai:zaguan.unizar.es:99723info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FSE/Building Europe from Aragoninfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S31-20Dinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/PGC2018-097086-A-I00PLoS ONE 16, 2 February (2021), e0246350[11 pp]byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess