Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios /

Kathryn V Walter; Daniel Conroy-Beam; David M Buss; Kelly Asao; Agnieszka Sorokowska; Piotr Sorokowski; Toivo Aavik; Grace Akello; Mohammad Madallh Alhabahba; Charlotte Alm; Naumana Amjad; Afifa Anjum; Chiemezie S Atama; Derya Atamtürk Duyar; Richard Ayebare; Carlota Batres; Mons Bendixen; Aicha Bensafia; Boris Bizumic; Mahmoud Boussena; Marina Butovskaya; Seda Can; Katarzyna Cantarero; Antonin Carrier; Hakan Cetinkaya; Ilona Croy; Rosa María Cueto; Marcin Czub; Daria Dronova; Seda Dural; Izzet Duyar; Berna Ertugrul; Agustín Espinosa; Ignacio Estevan; Carla Sofia Esteves; Luxi Fang; Tomasz Frackowiak; Jorge Contreras Garduño; Karina Ugalde González; Farida Guemaz; Petra Gyuris; Mária Halamová; Iskra Herak; Marina Horvat; Ivana Hromatko; Chin-Ming Hui; Jas Laile Jaafar; Feng Jiang; Konstantinos Kafetsios; Tina Kavčič; Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair; Nicolas Kervyn; Truong Thi Khanh Ha; Imran Ahmed Khilji; Nils C Köbis; Hoang Moc Lan; András Láng; Georgina R Lennard; Ernesto León; Torun Lindholm; Trinh Thi Linh; Giulia Lopez; Nguyen Van Luot; Alvaro Mailhos; Zoi Manesi; Rocio Martinez; Sarah L McKerchar; Norbert Meskó; Girishwar Misra; Conal Monaghan; Emanuel C Mora; Alba Moya-Garófano; Bojan Musil; Jean Carlos Natividade; Agnieszka Niemczyk; George Nizharadze; Elisabeth Oberzaucher; Anna Oleszkiewicz; Mohd Sofian Omar-Fauzee; Ike E Onyishi; Baris Özener; Ariela Francesca Pagani; Vilmantė Pakalniškienė; Miriam Parise; Farid Pazhoohi; Annette Pisanski; Katarzyna Pisanski; Edna Ponciano; Camelia Popa; Pavol Prokop; Muhammad Rizwan; Mario Sainz; Svjetlana Salkičević; Rūta Sargautytė; Ivan Sarmány-Schuller; Susanne Schmehl; Shivantika Sharad; Razi Sultan Siddiqui; Franco Simonetti; Stanislava Yordanova Stoyanova; Meri Tadinac; Marco Antonio Correa Varella; Christin-Melanie Vauclair; Luis Diego Vega; Dwi Ajeng Widarini; Gyesook Yoo; Marta Marta Zaťková; Maja Zupančič

doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.1115

Title	Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios /
Authors	Walter, Kathryn V ; Conroy-Beam, Daniel ; Buss, David M ; Asao, Kelly ; Sorokowska, Agnieszka ; Sorokowski, Piotr ; Aavik, Toivo ; Akello, Grace ; Alhabahba, Mohammad Madallh ; Alm, Charlotte ; Amjad, Naumana ; Anjum, Afifa ; Atama, Chiemezie S ; Duyar, Derya Atamtürk ; Ayebare, Richard ; Batres, Carlota ; Bendixen, Mons ; Bensafia, Aicha ; Bizumic, Boris ; Boussena, Mahmoud ; Butovskaya, Marina ; Can, Seda ; Cantarero, Katarzyna ; Carrier, Antonin ; Cetinkaya, Hakan ; Croy, Ilona ; Cueto, Rosa María ; Czub, Marcin ; Dronova, Daria ; Dural, Seda ; Duyar, Izzet ; Ertugrul, Berna ; Espinosa, Agustín ; Estevan, Ignacio ; Esteves, Carla Sofia ; Fang, Luxi ; Frackowiak, Tomasz ; Garduño, Jorge Contreras ; González, Karina Ugalde ; Guemaz, Farida ; Gyuris, Petra ; Halamová, Mária ; Herak, Iskra ; Horvat, Marina ; Hromatko, Ivana ; Hui, Chin-Ming ; Jaafar, Jas Laile ; Jiang, Feng ; Kafetsios, Konstantinos ; Kavčič, Tina ; Kennair, Leif Edward Ottesen ; Kervyn, Nicolas ; Khanh Ha, Truong Thi ; Khilji, Imran Ahmed ; Köbis, Nils C ; Lan, Hoang Moc ; Láng, András ; Lennard, Georgina R ; León, Ernesto ; Lindholm, Torun ; Linh, Trinh Thi ; Lopez, Giulia ; Luot, Nguyen Van ; Mailhos, Alvaro ; Manesi, Zoi ; Martinez, Rocio ; McKerchar, Sarah L ; Meskó, Norbert ; Misra, Girishwar ; Monaghan, Conal ; Mora, Emanuel C ; Moya-Garófano, Alba ; Musil, Bojan ; Natividade, Jean Carlos ; Niemczyk, Agnieszka ; Nizharadze, George ; Oberzaucher, Elisabeth ; Oleszkiewicz, Anna ; Omar-Fauzee, Mohd Sofian ; Onyishi, Ike E ; Özener, Baris ; Pagani, Ariela Francesca ; Pakalniškienė, Vilmantė ; Parise, Miriam ; Pazhoohi, Farid ; Pisanski, Annette ; Pisanski, Katarzyna ; Ponciano, Edna ; Popa, Camelia ; Prokop, Pavol ; Rizwan, Muhammad ; Sainz, Mario ; Salkičević, Svjetlana ; Sargautytė, Rūta ; Sarmány-Schuller, Ivan ; Schmehl, Susanne ; Sharad, Shivantika ; Siddiqui, Razi Sultan ; Simonetti, Franco ; Stoyanova, Stanislava Yordanova ; Tadinac, Meri ; Correa Varella, Marco Antonio ; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie ; Vega, Luis Diego ; Widarini, Dwi Ajeng ; Yoo, Gyesook ; Zaťková, Marta Marta ; Zupančič, Maja
DOI	10.1098/rspb.2021.1115
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Is Part of	Proceedings of the Royal Society B: biological sciences.. London : Royal Society Publishing. 2021, vol. 288, iss. 1955, art. no. 20211115, p. [1-10].. ISSN 0962-8452. eISSN 1471-2954
Keywords [eng]	cross-cultural ; mate preferences ; mating market ; sex differences ; sex ratio
Abstract [eng]	A wide range of literature connects sex ratio and mating behaviours in non-human animals. However, research examining sex ratio and human mating is limited in scope. Prior work has examined the relationship between sex ratio and desire for short-term, uncommitted mating as well as outcomes such as marriage and divorce rates. Less empirical attention has been directed towards the relationship between sex ratio and mate preferences, despite the importance of mate preferences in the human mating literature. To address this gap, we examined sex ratio's relationship to the variation in preferences for attractiveness, resources, kindness, intelligence and health in a long-term mate across 45 countries (n = 14 487). We predicted that mate preferences would vary according to relative power of choice on the mating market, with increased power derived from having relatively few competitors and numerous potential mates. We found that each sex tended to report more demanding preferences for attractiveness and resources where the opposite sex was abundant, compared to where the opposite sex was scarce. This pattern dovetails with those found for mating strategies in humans and mate preferences across species, highlighting the importance of sex ratio for understanding variation in human mate preferences.
Published	London : Royal Society Publishing
Type	Journal article
Language	English
Publication date	2021
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