The necessities and luxuries of mate preferences: Testing the tradeoffs

• Main Authors: LI, Norman P., BAILEY, J. Michael, KENRICK, Douglas T., LINSENMEIER, Joan A. W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2002
• Subjects: mate preferences; mate selection; differential priorities; necessities vs luxuries; gender differences; Personality and Social Contexts; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/718; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1717/viewcontent/matepreferences.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Social exchange and evolutionary models of mate selection incorporate economic assumptions but have not considered a key distinction between necessities and luxuries. This distinction can clarify an apparent paradox: Status and attractiveness, though emphasized by many researchers, are not typically...