Looks and status are still essential: Testing the mate preference priority model with the profile-based experimental paradigm

• Main Authors: YONG, Jose C., TAN, Yi Wen, LI, Norman P., MELTZER, Andrea L.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: mate preferences; mate preference priority model; sex differences; culture; replication; Applied Behavior Analysis; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3516; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4774/viewcontent/Testing_the_Mate_Preference_Priority_Model_with_the_Profile_Based_Experimental_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Objective: Although the mate preference priority model (MPPM; Li et al., 2002) has advanced our understanding of mate preferences, tests of the MPPM have relied on methods using text labels and thus lack ecological validity. We address this gap by testing the MPPM using Townsend and colleagues’ (199...