Sentences with phrase «mating on attractiveness»

Leveling the playing field: Acquaintance length predicts reduced assortative mating on attractiveness.

Not exact matches

Of the 19 mate preferences that researchers considered, five varied significantly based on gender: good financial prospects, physical attractiveness, chastity, ambition and age.

12 CDs each contain 60 minutes of guidance and insight on the most important areas of mate selection, with accompanying online self - assessments that help to pinpoint strengths, weaknesses and attractiveness to the opposite sex.

In Study 1, nearly 200 participants completed an online questionnaire about their own mate value / self - worth based on their physical attractiveness, self - esteem, likeability, warmth, kindness, and trustworthiness.

For example, the entire literature on sex differences in mate preferences (e.g., men valuing attractiveness more than women) focuses on one trait at a time, and no one said that this literature was absurd because it tested hypotheses that focused on a single trait in isolation.

Based on economic models of mating psychology (Kenrick et al., 1993; Li et al., 2002), we predict that (self - perceived) mate value will be correlated with desire for all of the mate preference factors in the long - term context but just physical attractiveness in the short - term mating context.

This is because the greatest investment goes into long - term mate preferences for both sexes (Buss & Schmitt, 1993; Li et al., 2002) and short - term mating focuses on physical attractiveness (Buss & Schmitt, 1993; Li & Kenrick, 2006).