But if you're hoping to show your in a positive light, that's where your friends may come in handy.

"Unfamiliar people appeared to select images that were at once all three"—that is, attractive, competent, and trustworthy—lead author David White told .

There's a guy in a banana suit holding a startlingly obese cat. Perhaps you'll be entranced by the creature's lifeless eyes. There's something that banana man, Bambi-killer and the Jeep fan have in common: They're all hoping you see something in their photos that pulls you in, that you'll want to find out what's beneath the banana suit, if you will. More than 90 percent of America's 54.3 million singles have tried online dating, according to the Statistic Brain Research Institute.

Swipe left and find a guy holding a dead deer by the antlers. You should keep this in mind because Cupid has traded in his arrows for a swipe-right on his phone.

It definitely isn't a totally realistic photo of me.

And according to Davis, that's all because of the angle.

Since we don’t see our own face in the same way others do, he explained, we don't have a great sense of how others perceive it.

It makes sense that you'd want to post only the best photos on your dating profile. Read on for her tips and learn how to best represent yourself through online dating photos.we may be better off leaving that task to our friends.University of New South Wales Sydney researchers asked 100 college students which of 12 pictures of themselves they'd use for their Facebook, Linked In, and online dating profiles.We're all guilty of editing and filtering and editing and filtering and editing again.I'm really feeling this selfie of mine, but I have never looked the way I look in that picture — not even the day it was taken, honestly.