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than initial contacts with
people she does not know.
"It's something where you
have more control and you
don't have to sort of hang out
at different places. You have
the opportunity to really be
selective and I enjoy that."
Sarver and Woods not only
stand by their product, they
literally have put their money
where their mouths are. Sar-
ver was a GE member in Port-
land several months before
she was hired by GE. "I met
a couple men that were very,
very nice, that I still keep in
touch with," she reports.
"They're back in Oregon. But
I would have never met them
without the program . . .
What I used to do is go to
bars. Because I didn't know
what else to do. It saved me
from having to go on dates
that I didn't want to go on,
just to go to find out if I liked
the person. So I was very
pleased!"
Sarver plans to re-join here,
as soon as she can get new
pictures and a new video shot.
She says company employees
who want to date GE mem-
bers must become members
and follow the membership
rules. So many GE employees
are familiar with the process
first-hand. Woods, who travels
the country but is based in
Seattle, is not only familiar
with the process, she is cur-
rently dating a member from
Seattle. "He was here today,"
she said with a smile, "he
flew out here (from Seattle) to
see me. It works!' ❑

On her profile, Sloan wrote
that she was attracted by men
with "sparkling eyes and a
nice smile." The videotaper
misread that and asked Sloan
why she was attracted to
sparkling eyes and "a nice
smell." "I was trying to figure
out what she was talking
about," recalls Sloan, "and
then it dawned on me and I
said, 'oh I think you mean
smile, not smell, and she said
`oh, you're right! " Sloan left
that sequence on the tape.
"So there's some humor in it,"
says Sloan.
The staff also advises peo-
ple on how to search other
members' written materials.
"We encourage everyone to
look at the thing that is the
most important and key their
eye to that thing. Then, as
they're flipping through the
pages, they stop at that thing,
and then they'll look at the
age or then they'll look if that
person does want children!'
Since religion is listed, a
Jewish person who wishes to
date other Jews can look at
that listing first, then can
scan the rest of the data.
There are some absolute
rules as to who may join the
service. Anyone with a felony
conviction, or someone who
has been arrested for drunk
driving more than twice in
five years cannot join. Addi-
tionally, explains Sarver, "If
we feel somebody cannot get
a date on their own, we real-
ly can't help them. Every-
thing is based on mutual con-
sent here."
A January 1985 article in
Psychology Today gave video-
dating in general a mixed
review. The article cited a
study by psychologists Stan-
ley Woll and Paul Cozby of the
University of California at
Fullerton. They asked 100
participants in a video-dating
service to evaluate four poten-
tial dates. The members were
given a written profile of one
potential date, a photo and a
written profile for a second, a
videotaped interview for a
third and a video and written
profile for a fourth. The
members felt they knew the
fourth candidate the best, due
to "the variety of verbal and
nonverbal cues in the video-
taped interview in combina-
tion with the written profile!'
But the article added,
"Predictions the members
made about the videotaped
and profiled dates' per-
sonalities turned out not to be
accurate at all. In fact, the
predictions were no more ac-
curate than those made about
any of the other potential
dates and were less accurate
than some!'
Sloan says meeting people
she has already seen is easier

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