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There are four very common types of dating app photos that you should never post on any dating site or dating app, as they will always lower your social value or will make you look downright lame, especially in the eye of the more discerning viewer – someone how care not only about how you look but also about what your photos say about who you are.

1. Selfies

This girl is undeniably cure, but … what does this type of photo say about her?

Some people talk about which selfies are good and which aren’t. I don’t think there is such a thing is a good selfie. A photo of you where you are holding a camera with your hand close to your face is never a good picture. You should not be posting selfies not only on dating sites but anywhere else either, and this includes Facebook. The only reason I can think of to ever take a selfie is when you want to say hello to someone, you take a quite shot spontaneously, and you send it to them. However, there is no reason to ever post a selfie publicly, because they are never flattering. It takes a minimal amount of effort to ask someone to take a normal picture of you, or, when all else fails, use a tripod and a timer function on your camera to take the right type of photo. There is no reason for you not to have “normal” pictures. Bathroom mirror selfies are ever worse than regularly selfies, and unless you are a 14 year-old girl who experiments with her sex appeal, you should never even think about taking a picture in front of a bathroom mirror.

2. Gym / Fitness / Yoga Photos

A beautiful photo, but so overused and unoriginal.

Gym photos make you look lame, no matter what you look like. If you are ripped guy, it makes you look like a self-absorbed, fitness obsessed narcissist, especially if you pose shirtless. If you are out of shape, then you will look even more unattractive if you are standing at a gym. If you are an attractive woman, a gym photo will attract the wrong type of attention. And if you are out of shape, then it’s going to be a turn off. Also, the gym background in a photo doesn’t exactly add anything interesting or unique. It can look kind of depressing, suggesting that you spend way too much time at a gym. TRX , Crossfit and spin class photos are no better. And yoga pose photos have been soooooo overused, that they also look lame. If you want to make it a point that you are active, you can just mention in your profile that you like to work out and leave it at that. Save the details for later for those people you actually met and get to know. The people who are looking at your profile are not looking for a work-out buddy, so you don’t have to convince them that you love going to the gym.

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3. “Indiana Jones” Photos

Many people post photos of themselves standing in a very exotic remote location or hanging off some cliff, or wearing a scuba diving gear or skydiving. This has all become too cliche and unoriginal, because everyone is doing this. I will also let you in on a little “secret” – snowboarding or scuba diving grear is not the most flattering look for a woman. But, if you really want to post something like this, limit it to one or may be two photos, but not more.

4. “Seductive” Pictures

Any photos with duck lips or any type of seductive pose or bedroom facial expression will necessarily make you look lame. And if you are a woman who thinks that posting a very suggesting picture is flattering to you and will get you the right type of attention from men online, just watch the amount of dirty messages and comments you get. Women who post borderline soft-porn pictures and who complain about the rude messages they get from guys always puzzled me. If you work so hard to invite this type of attention, why would you expect anything else. And if you are craving attention from anyone and everyone, then be honest about it, at least with yourself.

And any guy who is flexing muscles in front of a mirror is guaranteed to have any half decent woman roll her yes.

It’s really a good idea for you to go through their dating profile or dating app photos and make sure that you don’t have any of the above three types of photos posted. This is especially important if you want to attract the attention of higher quality people – the ones who are pickier and are looking for some substance behind the pictures.

In this day and age, dating apps are pretty much the best way to meet potential romantic partners. Whether you're looking for a casual hookup buddy, a platonic friend, or the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with, they've got it all. That being said, like everything else in life, you're only going to get as much out of the dating app game as you put into it. For example, certain types of pictures are going to attract more matches than others. What are the best photos to use on dating apps, you ask? Well, luckily, a new study has narrowed it down to one type of picture.

Professor Alixandra Barasch at the NYU Stern School of Business and Professor Jonah Berger at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania found that candid photos are the most well-liked when it comes to both dating apps and social media. They chronicled their findings in a paper called “A Candid Advantage? The Social Benefits of Candid Photos' that was recently published in Social Psychological & Personality Science.

They concluded that candid photos are more likely to trigger positive responses than posed photos do. In other words, if you post that picture your friend took of you laughing at the bar when you weren't paying attention to the camera, it's bound to get more likes on Instagram and more right swipes on Tinder and Bumble than the posed picture you made your friend take of you that same night.

According to Barasch, people are more drawn to candid photos because they seem more genuine than posed ones... which, obviously, makes sense. It's hard to get a feel for what a person is really like based on a few of their pictures. It's even harder when all of their pictures are forcefully posed. A candid picture gives a quick glimpse into who they really are and, as a result, makes us more drawn to them as both friends and potential lovers.

“In some cases, viewers prefer an unvarnished picture because it seems more genuine,” Barasch explained. “People value authenticity because it feels more accurate.”

In order to make this revelation, the researchers conducted five different experiments to see if candid photos really make people more desirable friends and partners.

In addition to finding that candid photos make people seem more genuine and, thus, more desirable for dating or friendship, the researchers made one other interesting discovery throughout the five experiments. If you (like me) are way too awkward to take a cute candid photo and were, instead, hoping to fool your followers and potential matches with a carefully executed 'plandid,' don't bother. If people catch onto you, the plan will totally backfire.

In fact, the study found that, if people learned that you knew the 'candid' photo was being taken, it would take away from your 'perceived genuineness' and, as a result, wouldn't give you the same uptick in likes and right swipes.

If you want your candid photo to work, it's gotta be truly candid.

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“People often assume that a curated, polished version of the self will generate the most favorable responses—that by smoothing rough edges and presenting one’s best side, others will like and want to interact with them more. But this assumption is not always correct,” the authors write in their paper.

That being said, the researchers did find that there's one place on the Internet where posed photos actually do perform better than planned photos: LinkedIn.

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So, in conclusion, save your candids for Tinder and Instagram. Keep the professional headshot for LinkedIn.