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Contrasting Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Countries

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Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States of America. dconroybeam@ucsb.edu
  • 2 Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 78712, United States of America
  • 3 Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, 50-137, Poland
  • 4 Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 50090, Estonia
  • 5 Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda
  • 6 English Language Department, Middle East University, Amman, 11181, Jordan
  • 7 Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 10691, Sweden
  • 8 Institute of Applied Psychology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan
  • 9 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 410002, Nigeria
  • 10 Deparment of Anthropology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, 34452, Turkey
  • 11 North Star Alliance, Kampala, Uganda
  • 12 Department of Psychology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, 17603, United States of America
  • 13 Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU), Trondheim, 7491, Norway
  • 14 EFORT, Department of Sociology, University of Algiers 2, Algiers, 16000, Algeria
  • 15 Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia
  • 16 EFORT, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Algiers 2, Algiers, 16000, Algeria
  • 17 Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia
  • 18 Department of Psychology, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, 35300, Turkey
  • 19 Social Behavior Research Center, Faculty in Wroclaw, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw, 53-238, Poland
  • 20 Psychology Faculty (CECOS), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348, Belgium
  • 21 Department of Psychology, Ankara University, Ankara, 6560, Turkey
  • 22 Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, 1069, Germany
  • 23 Grupo de Psicología Política y Social (GPPS), Departamento de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, 15088, Perú
  • 24 Deparment of Anthropology, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, 58140, Turkey
  • 25 Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República, Motevideo, 11200, Uruguay
  • 26 Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIS-IUL, Lisboa, 1649-026, Portugal
  • 27 Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 28 Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Unidad Morelia UNAM, Morelia, 58190, Mexico
  • 29 Psychology Department, Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, San José, 11501, Costa Rica
  • 30 EFORT, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Setif 2, Setif, 16000, Algeria
  • 31 Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Pécs, 7624, Hungary
  • 32 Faculty of Social Sciences and Health Care, Department of Psychological Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra, 94974, Slovakia
  • 33 Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organisations (LOURiM), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348, Belgium
  • 34 Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, University of Maribor, Maribor, 2000, Slovenia
  • 35 Department of Psychology, Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia
  • 36 Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia
  • 37 Organization and Human Resource Management, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, 100081, China
  • 38 Psychology Department, University of Crete, Rethymno, 70013, Greece
  • 39 Faculty of Education, University of Primorska, Koper, 6000, Slovenia
  • 40 VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, 100000, Vietnam
  • 41 Department of Psychology, IMCB, F-10/4, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan
  • 42 Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Mating, Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081, Netherlands
  • 43 Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, 20123, Italy
  • 44 Department of Experimental & Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081, Netherlands
  • 45 Department of Social Psychology, University of Granada, Granada, 18010, Spain
  • 46 Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110021, India
  • 47 Department of Animal and Human Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba
  • 48 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Maribor, 2000, Slovenia
  • 49 Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 22451-000, Brazil
  • 50 Department of Social Sciences, Free Unviersity of Tbilisi, Tbilisi, 2, Georgia
  • 51 Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, 1090, Austria
  • 52 School of Education, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, 6010, Malaysia
  • 53 Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 410002, Nigeria
  • 54 Institute of Psychology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, 1513, Lithuania
  • 55 Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, Canada
  • 56 Institute of Psychology, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-901, Brazil
  • 57 Department of Psychology, Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, UNATC-CINETIc, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 30167, Romania
  • 58 Department of Environmental Ecology, Comenius University, Bratislava, 842 15, Slovakia
  • 59 The Delve Pvt Ltd, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan
  • 60 School of Psychology, University of Monterrey, San Pedro Garza Garcia, 66238, Mexico
  • 61 Center for Social and Psychological Sciences, Institute of Experimental Psychology SAS, Bratislava, 841 04, Slovakia
  • 62 Department of Applied Psychology, Vivekananda College, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110021, India
  • 63 Department of Management Sciences, DHA Suffa University, Karachi, 75500, Pakistan
  • 64 School of Psychology, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, 8331150, Chile
  • 65 Department of Psychology, South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Blagoevgrad, 2700, Bulgaria
  • 66 Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-030, Brazil
  • 67 Department of Communication, University Prof. Dr. Moestopo (Beragama), Jakarta, 10270, Indonesia
  • 68 Department of Child & Family Studies, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 024-47, Republic of Korea
  • 69 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia
Sci Rep, 2019 11 15;9(1):16885.
PMID: 31729413 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52748-8

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 human mating markets. Across cultures, people higher in mate value appear to experience greater power of choice on the mating market in that they set higher ideal standards, better fulfill their preferences in choice, and pair with higher mate value partners. Furthermore, we find that this cross-culturally universal pattern of mate choice is most consistent with a Euclidean model of mate preference integration.

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