Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2007
Abstract
People were given highly constrained low budgets of mate dollars to allocate across various characteristics pertaining to their ideal partners and to their ideal selves for long- and short-term mating. First, results replicated findings from LI et al. (2002) and LI and KENRICK (2006). For ideal long-term mates, men prioritized physical attractiveness and women prioritized social status. For ideal short-term mates, both sexes prioritized physical attractiveness. Second, people's design of their ideal selves mirrored what the opposite sex ideally desired in their mates. For a long-term mating context, men prioritized social status in themselves and women prioritized physical attractiveness in themselves. For ideal short-term selves, both sexes prioritized physical attractiveness. Findings were consistent with a domain-specific view of psychological mechanisms, in that processes for valuing potential mates and processes for valuing one's own mate value may be specialized mechanisms.
Keywords
human mate selection, long-term mating, short-term mating, self-ideals, gender differences, physical attractiveness, social status
Discipline
Gender and Sexuality | Social Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
Acta Psychologica Sinica
Volume
39
Issue
3
First Page
528
Last Page
535
ISSN
0439-755X
Publisher
Institute of Psychology (China)
Citation
LI, Norman P..(2007). Mate Preference Necessities in Long- and Short-Term Mating: People Prioritize in Themselves What Their Mates Prioritize in Them. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 39(3), 528-535.
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