Age, education, and income are surprisingly weak predictors of mate preferences #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #MatePreferences #EvolutionaryPsychology #HumanBehavior
Age, education, and income are surprisingly weak predictors of mate preferences
A new study published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior finds that people’s preferences for desirable and undesirable traits in romantic partners are only weakly tied to their age, income,...
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April 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Age, education, and income are surprisingly weak predictors of mate preferences #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #MatePreferences #EvolutionaryPsychology #HumanBehavior
🚨New paper! I tackle a confound in mate preference research: Are preferences & standards driven by one's own sex or target sex? Two studies show preferences are (mostly) driven by own sex, but overall standards are driven by target sex. Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/0956... #MatePreferences #Research
Deconfounding Sex and Sex of Partner in Mate-Preference Research - Ashley J. Coventry, Selina Mixner, Benjamin Gelbart, Kathryn V. Walter, Daniel Conroy-Beam, Tamsin C. German, 2025
Much of the previous research examining sex differences in human mate preferences has relied exclusively on heterosexual participants. Consequently, prior work ...
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March 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🚨New paper! I tackle a confound in mate preference research: Are preferences & standards driven by one's own sex or target sex? Two studies show preferences are (mostly) driven by own sex, but overall standards are driven by target sex. Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/0956... #MatePreferences #Research