Mate preferences do predict attraction and choices in the early stages of mate selection

• Main Authors: LI, Norman P., YONG, Jose C., TOV, William, SNG, Oliver, FLETCHER, Garth J. O., VALENTINE, Katherine A., JIANG, Yun F., BALLIET, Daniel
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: mate preferences; speed-dating; long-term mating; short-term mating; evolutionary psychology; Gender and Sexuality; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1396; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2652/viewcontent/Mate_Preferences_do_Predict_Attraction_and_Choices_2013_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Although mate preference research has firmly established that men value physical attractiveness more than women do and women value social status more than men do, recent speed-dating studies have indicated mixed evidence (at best) for whether people’s sex-differentiated mate preferences predict actu...