Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios.
Journal: Proceedings. Biological sciences
Volume: 288
Issue: 1955
Year of Publication: 2021
Affiliated Institutions: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA , USA. Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX , USA. Department of Psychology, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT , USA. Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw , Poland. Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu , Estonia. Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu , Uganda. English Language Department, Middle East University, Amman , Jordan. Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm , Sweden. Department of Applied Psychology, NUR International University, Lahore, Pakistan. Institute of Applied Psychology, University of the Punjab, Lahore , Pakistan. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and. Deparment of Anthropology, Istanbul University, Istanbul , Turkey. North Star Alliance, Kampala, Uganda. Department of Psychology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster , USA. Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Laboratory Education-Formation-Travail (EFORT), Department of Sociology, and. Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra , Australia. Laboratory EFORT, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Algiers , Algiers , Algeria. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow , Russia. Department of Psychology, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir , Turkey. Social Behavior Research Center, Faculty in Wroclaw, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw , Poland. Psychology Faculty (Center for the Study of Social Behavior), and. Department of Psychology, Ankara University, Ankara , Turkey. Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden , Germany. Grupo de Psicología Política y Social (GPPS), Departamento de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima , Perú. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República, Motevideo , Uruguay. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Católica Lisbon Research Unit in Business and Economics, Portugal. Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Unidad Morelia UNAM, Morelia , Mexico. Psychology Department, Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, San José , Costa Rica. Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Sétif, Sétif , Algeria. Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Pécs , Hungary. Faculty of Social Sciences and Health Care, Department of Psychological Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra , Slovakia. Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organisations (LOURiM), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium. Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, University of Maribor, Maribor , Slovenia. Department of Psychology, Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb , Croatia. Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia. Organization and Human Resource Management, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing , People's Republic of China. School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Katedra Psychologie, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Faculty of Health Sciences, and. Department of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi , Vietnam. Department of Psychology, Islamabad Model College for Boys, F-/, Islamabad , Pakistan. 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Institute of Psychology, Vilnius University, Vilnius , Lithuania. Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada VT Z. Institute of Psychology, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro -, Brazil. Department of Psychology-Institute of Philosophy and Psychology "C. Rădulescu Motru" of Romanian Academy, UNATC Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania. Department of Environmental Ecology and Landscape Management, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava , Slovakia. Department of Psychology, University of Haripur, , Pakistan. Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago , Chile. Center for Social and Psychological Sciences, Institute of Experimental Psychology SAS, Bratislava, , Slovakia. Department of Applied Psychology, Vivekananda College, University of Delhi, Delhi , India. Department of Management Sciences, DHA Suffa University, Karachi , Pakistan. 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Abstract summary
A wide range of literature connects sex ratio and mating behaviours in non-human animals. However, research examining sex ratio and human mating is limited in scope. Prior work has examined the relationship between sex ratio and desire for short-term, uncommitted mating as well as outcomes such as marriage and divorce rates. Less empirical attention has been directed towards the relationship between sex ratio and mate preferences, despite the importance of mate preferences in the human mating literature. To address this gap, we examined sex ratio's relationship to the variation in preferences for attractiveness, resources, kindness, intelligence and health in a long-term mate across 45 countries ( = 14 487). We predicted that mate preferences would vary according to relative power of choice on the mating market, with increased power derived from having relatively few competitors and numerous potential mates. We found that each sex tended to report more demanding preferences for attractiveness and resources where the opposite sex was abundant, compared to where the opposite sex was scarce. This pattern dovetails with those found for mating strategies in humans and mate preferences across species, highlighting the importance of sex ratio for understanding variation in human mate preferences.Authors & Co-authors: Walter Kathryn V KV Conroy-Beam Daniel D Buss David M DM Asao Kelly K Sorokowska Agnieszka A Sorokowski Piotr P Aavik Toivo T Akello Grace G Alhabahba Mohammad Madallh MM Alm Charlotte C Amjad Naumana N Anjum Afifa A Atama Chiemezie S CS Duyar Derya Atamtürk DA Ayebare Richard R Batres Carlota C Bendixen Mons M Bensafia Aicha A Bizumic Boris B Boussena Mahmoud M Butovskaya Marina M Can Seda S Cantarero Katarzyna K Carrier Antonin A Cetinkaya Hakan H Croy Ilona I Cueto Rosa María RM Czub Marcin M Dronova Daria D Dural Seda S Duyar Izzet I Ertugrul Berna B Espinosa Agustín A Estevan Ignacio I Esteves Carla Sofia CS Fang Luxi L Frackowiak Tomasz T Garduño Jorge Contreras JC González Karina Ugalde KU Guemaz Farida F Gyuris Petra P Halamová Mária M Herak Iskra I Horvat Marina M Hromatko Ivana I Hui Chin-Ming CM Jaafar Jas Laile JL Jiang Feng F Kafetsios Konstantinos K Kavčič Tina T Ottesen Kennair Leif Edward LE Kervyn Nicolas N Khanh Ha Truong Thi TT Khilji Imran Ahmed IA Köbis Nils C NC Lan Hoang Moc HM Láng András A Lennard Georgina R GR León Ernesto E Lindholm Torun T Linh Trinh Thi TT Lopez Giulia G Luot Nguyen Van NV Mailhos Alvaro A Manesi Zoi Z Martinez Rocio R McKerchar Sarah L SL Meskó Norbert N Misra Girishwar G Monaghan Conal C Mora Emanuel C EC Moya-Garófano Alba A Musil Bojan B Natividade Jean Carlos JC Niemczyk Agnieszka A Nizharadze George G Oberzaucher Elisabeth E Oleszkiewicz Anna A Omar-Fauzee Mohd Sofian MS Onyishi Ike E IE Özener Baris B Pagani Ariela Francesca AF Pakalniskiene Vilmante V Parise Miriam M Pazhoohi Farid F Pisanski Annette A Pisanski Katarzyna K Ponciano Edna E Popa Camelia C Prokop Pavol P Rizwan Muhammad M Sainz Mario M Salkičević Svjetlana S Sargautyte Ruta R Sarmány-Schuller Ivan I Schmehl Susanne S Sharad Shivantika S Siddiqui Razi Sultan RS Simonetti Franco F Stoyanova Stanislava Yordanova SY Tadinac Meri M Correa Varella Marco Antonio MA Vauclair Christin-Melanie CM Vega Luis Diego LD Widarini Dwi Ajeng DA Yoo Gyesook G Zaťková Marta Marta MM Zupančič Maja M
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Citations : Kvarnemo C, Ahnesjo I. 1996. The dynamics of operational sex ratios and competition for mates. Trends Ecol. Evol. 11, 404-408. (10.1016/0169-5347(96)10056-2)Authors : 108
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Doi : 20211115SSN : 1471-2954