Contrasting Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Countries
University of California, Santa Barbara · The University of Texas at Austin · +68 more institutions
Abstract
Humans express a wide array of ideal mate preferences. Around the world, people desire romantic partners who are intelligent, healthy, kind, physically attractive, wealthy, and more. In order for these ideal preferences to guide the choice of actual romantic partners, human mating psychology must possess a means to integrate information across these many preference dimensions into summaries of the overall mate value of their potential mates. Here we explore the computational design of this mate preference integration process using a large sample of n = 14,487 people from 45 countries around the world. We combine this large cross-cultural sample with agent-based models to compare eight hypothesized models of…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 351.91
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 38
Authors
107- DCDaniel Conroy‐BeamCorresponding
University of California, Santa Barbara
- DMDavid M. Buss
The University of Texas at Austin
- KAKelly Asao
The University of Texas at Austin
- ASAgnieszka Sorokowska
University of Wrocław, Institute of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden
- PSPiotr Sorokowski
University of Wrocław, Institute of Psychology
Topics & keywords
- Mate choice
- Preference
- Mating preferences
- Mating
- Ideal (ethics)
- Set (abstract data type)
- Sample (material)
- Value (mathematics)