Browsing by Subject "Human mating"

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A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference matching
(American Psychological Association, 2025-01) Eastwick, Paul W.; Sparks, Jehan; Finkel, Eli J.; Meza, Eva M.; Adamkovic, Matus; Adu, Peter; Ai, Ting; Akintola, Aderonke A.; Al-Shawaf, Laith; Apriliawati, Denisa; Arriaga, Patricia; Aubert-Teillaud, Benjamin; Banik, Gabriel; Barzykowski, Krystian; Batres, Carlota; Baucom, Katherine J.; Beaulieu, Elizabeth Z.; Behnke, Maciej; Butcher, Natalie; Charles, Deborah Y.; Chen, Jane Minyan; Cheon, Jeong Eun; Chittham, Phakkanun; Chwilkowska, Patrycja; Cong, Chin Wen; Copping, Lee T.; Corral-Frias, Nadia S.; Adoric, Vera Cubela; Dizon, Mikaela; Du, Hongfei; Ehinmowo, Michael I.; Escribano, Daniela A.; Espinosa, Natalia M.; Exposito, Francisca; Feldman, Gilad; Freitag, Raquel; Armenta, Martha Frias; Gallyamova, Albina; Gillath, Omri; Gjoneska, Biljana; Gkinopoulos, Theofilos; Grafe, Franca; Grigoryev, Dmitry; Groyecka-Bernard, Agata; Gunaydin, Gul; Ilustrisimo, Ruby; Impett, Emily; Kacmar, Pavol; Kim, Young-Hoon; Kocur, Miroslaw; Kowal, Marta; Krishna, Maatangi; Labor, Paul Danielle; Lu, Jackson G.; Lucas, Marc Y.; Malecki, Wojciech P.; Malinakova, Klara; Meissner, Sofia; Meier, Zdenek; Misiak, Michal; Muise, Amy; Novak, Lukas; Jiaqing, O.; Ozdogru, Asil A.; Park, Haeyoung Gideon; Paruzel, Mariola; Pavlovic, Zoran; Puski, Marcell; Ribeiro, Gianni; Roberts, S. Craig; Roer, Jan P.; Ropovik, Ivan; Ross, Robert M.; Sakman, Ezgi; Salvador, Cristina E.; Selcuk, Emre; Skakoon-Sparling, Shayna; Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Sorokowski, Piotr; Spasovski, Ognen; Stanton, Sarah C. E.; Stewart, Suzanne L. K.; Swami, Viren; Szaszi, Barnabas; Takashima, Kaito; Tavel, Peter; Tejada, Julian; Tu, Eric; Tuominen, Jarno; Vaidis, David; Vally, Zahir; Vaughn, Leigh Ann; Villanueva-Moya, Laura; Wisnuwardhani, Dian; Yamada, Yuki; Yonemitsu, Fumiya; Zidkova, Radka; Zivna, Kristyna; Coles, Nicholas A.
Ideal partner preferences (i.e., ratings of the desirability of attributes like attractiveness or intelligence) are the source of numerous foundational findings in the interdisciplinary literature on human mating. Recently, research on the predictive validity of ideal partner preference matching (i.e., Do people positively evaluate partners who match vs. mismatch their ideals?) has become mired in several problems. First, articles exhibit discrepant analytic and reporting practices. Second, different findings emerge across laboratories worldwide, perhaps because they sample different relationship contexts and/or populations. This registered report-partnered with the Psychological Science Accelerator-uses a highly powered design (N = 10,358) across 43 countries and 22 languages to estimate preference-matching effect sizes. The most rigorous tests revealed significant preference-matching effects in the whole sample and for partnered and single participants separately. The "corrected pattern metric" that collapses across 35 traits revealed a zero-order effect of beta = .19 and an effect of beta = .11 when included alongside a normative preference-matching metric. Specific traits in the "level metric" (interaction) tests revealed very small (average beta = .04) effects. Effect sizes were similar for partnered participants who reported ideals before entering a relationship, and there was no consistent evidence that individual differences moderated any effects. Comparisons between stated and revealed preferences shed light on gender differences and similarities: For attractiveness, men's and (especially) women's stated preferences underestimated revealed preferences (i.e., they thought attractiveness was less important than it actually was). For earning potential, men's stated preferences underestimated-and women's stated preferences overestimated-revealed preferences. Implications for the literature on human mating are discussed.
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Disgust and mating strategy
(Elsevier Inc., 2015-05) Al-Shawaf, L.; Lewis, D. M. G.; Buss, D. M.
An evolutionary task analysis predicts a connection between disgust and human mating, two important but currently disconnected areas of psychology. Because short-term mating strategies involve sex with multiple partners after brief temporal durations, such a strategy should be difficult to pursue in conjunction with high levels of sexual disgust. On this basis, we hypothesized that individuals with a stronger proclivity for short-term mating would exhibit dispositionally lower levels of sexual disgust. Two independent studies provided strong support for this hypothesis: among both men and women, an orientation toward short-term mating was associated with reduced levels of sexual disgust, but not with suppressed moral or pathogen disgust. Our discussion highlights an unexpected finding and suggests important questions for future research.
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Why (and when) straight women trust gay men: ulterior mating motives and female competition
(Springer New York LLC, 2017) Russell, E. M.; Ta, V. P.; Lewis, D. M. G.; Babcock, M. J.; Ickes, W.
Previous findings indicate that heterosexual women experience a greater sense of comfort and trust in their friendships with gay men than in their friendships with heterosexual individuals. In the present studies, we tested a hypothesis that not only explains why women exhibit increased trust in gay men but also yields novel predictions about when (i.e., in what contexts) this phenomenon is likely to occur. Specifically, we propose that gay men’s lack of motives to mate with women or to compete with them for mates enhances women’s trust in gay men and openness to befriend them. Study 1 demonstrated that women placed greater trust in a gay man’s mating—but not non-mating (e.g., career) advice—than in the same advice given by heterosexual individuals. Study 2 showed that women perceived a gay man to be more sincere in scenarios relevant to sexual and competitive mating deception. In Study 3, exposing women to a visualization of increased mating competition enhanced their trust in gay men; when mating competition was salient, women’s trust in mating information from a gay man was amplified. Study 4 showed that women who perceived higher levels of mating competition were more open to befriending gay men. Together, these converging findings support our central hypothesis, which not only provides a distal explanation for the trust that straight women place in gay men, but also provides novel insights into previously unidentified contexts that facilitate the formation and strengthening of this unique bond.