Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication
Authors:
- Kathryn V. Walter,
- Katarzyna Cantarero,
- Mohd Sofian Bin Omar-Fauzee,
- Edna Lύcia Tinoco Ponciano
Abstract
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 ( N = 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.
- Record ID
- SWPSad86591d308543198e800e167d7ef367
- Collective author
- Daniel Conroy-Beam , David M. Buss , Kelly Asao , Agnieszka Sorokowska , Piotr Sorokow.....
- Author
- Journal series
- Psychological Science, ISSN 0956-7976, e-ISSN 1467-9280
- Issue year
- 2020
- Vol
- 31
- No
- 4
- Pages
- 408-423
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.75
- Keywords in English
- mate preferences, sex differences, cross-cultural studies, evolutionary psychology, biosocial role theory, open data, preregistered
- ASJC Classification
- DOI
- DOI:10.1177/0956797620904154 opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797620904154 opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
- File
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- File: 1
- Sex_oswiadczenie.jpeg
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- File: 2
- Sex_tekst.pdf
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- Score (nominal)
- 200
- Score source
- journalList
- Publication indicators
- : 2018 = 2.637; : 2017 = 6.128 (2) - 2017=7.370 (5)
- Citation count
- 42
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- Uniform Resource Identifier
- http://bw.swps.edu.pl/info/article/SWPSad86591d308543198e800e167d7ef367/
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