Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication.
Journal: Psychological science
Volume: 31
Issue: 4
Year of Publication: 2023
Affiliated Institutions: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara. Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin. Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw. Institute of Psychology, University of Opole. Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu. Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University. English Language Department, Middle East University. Department of Psychology, Stockholm University. Institute of Applied Psychology, University of the Punjab. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Nigeria. Department of Anthropology, Istanbul University. North Star Alliance, Kampala, Uganda. Department of Psychology, Franklin and Marshall College. Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Laboratory Education-Formation-Travail (EFORT), Department of Sociology, University of Algiers. Research School of Psychology, Australian National University. Laboratory EFORT, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Algiers. Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Department of Psychology, Izmir University of Economics. Social Behavior Research Center, Faculty in Wroclaw, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. Psychology Faculty (Center for the Study of Social Behavior), Université Catholique de Louvain. Department of Psychology, Ankara University. Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden. Grupo de Psicología Política y Social, Departamento de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Department of Anthropology, Sivas Cumhuriyet University. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República. Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CIS-IUL). Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Unidad Morelia. Psychology Department, Universidad Latina de Costa Rica. Laboratory EFORT, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Setif. Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs. Faculty of Social Sciences and Health Care, Department of Psychological Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University. Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organisations, Université Catholique de Louvain. Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, University of Maribor. Department of Psychology, Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, University of Malaya. Organization and Human Resource Management, Central University of Finance and Economics. Psychology Department, University of Crete. Faculty of Education, University of Primorska. Department of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Department of Psychology, Islamabad Model College for Boys, F-/, Islamabad. Department of Economics, Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Mating, University of Amsterdam. Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Department of Social Psychology, University of Granada. Department of Psychology, University of Delhi. Department of Animal and Human Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Department of Social Sciences, Free University of Tbilisi. Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna. School of Education, Universiti Utara Malaysia. Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria. Institute of Psychology, Vilnius University. Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia. Institute of Psychology, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Department of Psychology, Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, Universitatea Nationala de Arta Teatrala si Cinematografica-Centrul Internațional de Cercetare şi Educație în Tehnologii Inovativ Creative (UNATC-CINETIc), Romanian Academy. Department of Environmental Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University. Delve Business Network, Islamabad, Pakistan. School of Psychology, University of Monterrey. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Center for Social and Psychological Sciences, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences. Department of Applied Psychology, Vivekananda College, University of Delhi. Department of Management Sciences, DHA Suffa University. School of Psychology, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile. Department of Psychology, South-West University "Neofit Rilski". Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo. Faculty of Communication, University Prof. Dr Moestopo (Beragama), Jakarta, , Indonesia. Department of Child and Family Studies, Kyung Hee University. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
Abstract summary
Considerable research has examined human mate preferences across cultures, finding universal sex differences in preferences for attractiveness and resources as well as sources of systematic cultural variation. Two competing perspectives-an evolutionary psychological perspective and a biosocial role perspective-offer alternative explanations for these findings. However, the original data on which each perspective relies are decades old, and the literature is fraught with conflicting methods, analyses, results, and conclusions. Using a new 45-country sample ( = 14,399), we attempted to replicate classic studies and test both the evolutionary and biosocial role perspectives. Support for universal sex differences in preferences remains robust: Men, more than women, prefer attractive, young mates, and women, more than men, prefer older mates with financial prospects. Cross-culturally, both sexes have mates closer to their own ages as gender equality increases. Beyond age of partner, neither pathogen prevalence nor gender equality robustly predicted sex differences or preferences across countries.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 Atamtürk Duyar Derya D 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 Kennair Leif Edward Ottesen LEO 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 Van Luot Nguyen N 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 Varella Marco Antonio Correa MAC Vauclair Christin-Melanie CM Vega Luis Diego LD Widarini Dwi Ajeng DA Yoo Gyesook G Zat'ková Marta M Zupančič Maja M
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Doi : 10.1177/0956797620904154SSN : 1467-9280