Mate preference priorities in the East and West: A cross-cultural test of the mate preference priority model.
cultural differences
evolutionary psychology
mate choice
mate preferences
sex differences
Journal
Journal of personality
ISSN: 1467-6494
Titre abrégé: J Pers
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 2985194R
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2020
06 2020
Historique:
received:
09
05
2019
revised:
14
08
2019
accepted:
28
08
2019
pubmed:
9
9
2019
medline:
28
8
2021
entrez:
9
9
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Mate choice involves trading-off several preferences. Research on this process tends to examine mate preference prioritization in homogenous samples using a small number of traits and thus provide little insight into whether prioritization patterns reflect a universal human nature. This study examined whether prioritization patterns, and their accompanying sex differences, are consistent across Eastern and Western cultures. In the largest test of the mate preference priority model to date, we asked an international sample of participants (N = 2,477) to design an ideal long-term partner by allocating mate dollars to eight traits using three budgets. Unlike previous versions of the task, we included traits known to vary in importance by culture (e.g., religiosity and chastity). Under low budget conditions, Eastern and Western participants differed in their mate dollar allocation for almost every trait (average d = 0.42), indicating that culture influences prioritization. Despite these differences, traits fundamental for the reproductive success of each sex in the ancestral environment were prioritized by both Eastern and Western participants. The tendency to prioritize reproductively fundamental traits is present in both Eastern and Western cultures. The psychological mechanisms responsible for this process produce similar prioritization patterns despite cross-cultural variation.
Types de publication
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
606-620Informations de copyright
© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Références
Begley, T. M., & Tan, W.-L. (2001). The socio-cultural environment for entrepreneurship: A comparison between East Asian and Anglo-Saxon countries. Journal of International Business Studies, 32, 537-553. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490983
Bendixen, M., Asao, K., Wyckoff, J. P., Buss, D. M., & Kennair, L. E. O. (2017). Sexual regret in US and Norway: Effects of culture and individual differences in religiosity and mating strategy. Personality and Individual Differences, 116, 246-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.054
Bennett, P., Lowe, R., & Petrova, H. (2015). Heterosexual men’s ratings of sexual attractiveness of adolescent girls: A cross-cultural analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 2201-2206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0504-6
Bovet, J., Barkat-Defradas, M., Durand, V., Faurie, C., & Raymond, M. (2018). Women's attractiveness is linked to expected age at menopause. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31, 229-238. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13214
Buss, D. M. (1989). Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 1-49. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00023992
Buss, D. M., Abbott, M., Angleitner, A., Asherian, A., Biaggio, A., Blanco-Villasenor, A., … Yang, K.-S. (1990). International preferences in selecting mates: A study of 37 cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 21, 5-47. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022190211001
Buss, D. M., & Schmitt, D. P. (1993). Sexual strategies theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating. Psychological Review, 100, 204-232. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.100.2.204
Buss, D. M., Shackelford, T. K., & LeBlanc, G. J. (2000). Number of children desired and preferred spousal age difference: Context-specific mate preference patterns across 37 cultures. Evolution and Human Behavior, 21, 323-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(00)00048-9
Chang, L., Wang, Y., Shackelford, T. K., & Buss, D. M. (2011). Chinese mate preferences: Cultural evolution and continuity across a quarter of a century. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 678-683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.12.016
Chen, R., Austin, J. P., Miller, J. K., & Piercy, F. P. (2015). Chinese and American individuals’ mate selection criteria: Updates, modifications, and extensions. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46, 101-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022114551793
Confer, J. C., Easton, J. A., Fleischman, D. S., Goetz, C. D., Lewis, D. M., Perilloux, C., & Buss, D. M. (2010). Evolutionary psychology: Controversies, questions, prospects, and limitations. American Psychologist, 65, 110-126. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018413
Conroy-Beam, D., Goetz, C. D., & Buss, D. M. (2016). What predicts romantic relationship satisfaction and mate retention intensity: Mate preference fulfillment or mate value discrepancies? Evolution and Human Behavior, 37, 440-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.04.003
Cornwell, R. E., & Perrett, D. I. (2008). Sexy sons and sexy daughters: The influence of parents' facial characteristics on offspring. Animal Behaviour, 76, 1843-1853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.07.031
Gangestad, S. W., Haselton, M. G., & Buss, D. M. (2006). Evolutionary foundations of cultural variation: Evoked culture and mate preferences. Psychological Inquiry, 17, 75-95.
Geary, D. C. (2000). Evolution and proximate expression of human paternal investment. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 55-77. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.126.1.55
Greengross, G., & Miller, G. F. (2008). Dissing oneself versus dissing rivals: Effects of status, personality, and sex on the short-term and long-term attractiveness of self-deprecating and other-deprecating humor. Evolutionary Psychology, 6, 393-408. https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490800600303
Greengross, G., Silvia, P. J., & Nusbaum, E. C. (2019). Sex differences in humor production ability: A meta-analysis. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Hackett, C., Grim, B., Stonawski, M., Skirbekk, V., Potančoková, M., & Abel, G. (2012). The global religious landscape: A report on the size and distribution of the world's major religious groups as of 2010. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center.
Hall, J. A. (2017). Humor in romantic relationships: A meta-analysis. Personal Relationships, 24, 306-322. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12183
Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). The weirdest people in the world? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 61-83. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X0999152X
Hermans, H. J., & Kempen, H. J. (1998). Moving cultures: The perilous problems of cultural dichotomies in a globalizing society. American Psychologist, 53, 1111-1120. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.53.10.1111
Higgins, L. T., Zheng, M., Liu, Y., & Sun, C. H. (2002). Attitudes to marriage and sexual behaviors: A survey of gender and culture differences in China and United Kingdom. Sex Roles, 46, 75-89. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016565426011
Jensen-Campbell, L. A., Graziano, W. G., & West, S. G. (1995). Dominance, prosocial orientation, and female preferences: Do nice guys really finish last? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 427-440. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.68.3.427
Jonason, P. K., Li, N. P., & Cason, M. J. (2009). The “booty call”: A compromise between men's and women's ideal mating strategies. Journal of Sex Research, 46, 460-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224490902775827
Jonason, P. K., Marsh, K., Dib, O., Plush, D., Doszpot, M., Fung, E., … Di Pietro, K. (2019). Is smart sexy? Examining the role of relative intelligence in mate preferences. Personality and Individual Differences, 139, 53-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.11.009
Jonason, P. K., Nolland, M., & Tyler, M. D. (2017). Incorporating geographic distance into mate preference research: Necessities and luxuries, 2.0. Personal Relationships, 24, 585-597. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12199
Jonason, P. K., Valentine, K. A., & Li, N. P. (2012). Human mating. In V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of human behavior (Vol. 2, 2nd ed., pp. 371-377). Oxford, UK: Academic Press.
Kennair, L. E. O., Nordeide, J., Andreassen, S., Strønen, J., & Pallesen, S. (2011). Sex differences in jealousy: A study from Norway. Nordic Psychology, 1, 20-34. https://doi.org/10.1027/1901-2276/a000025
Kenrick, D. T., Groth, G. E., Trost, M. R., & Sadalla, E. K. (1993). Integrating evolutionary and social-exchange perspectives on relationships-Effects of gender, self-appraisal, and involvement level on mate selection criteria. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 951-969. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.64.6.951
Kim, B. K., Li, L. C., & Ng, G. F. (2005). The Asian Smerican values scale-multidimensional: Development, reliability, and validity. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 11, 187. https://doi.org/10.1037/1099-9809.11.3.187
Lassek, W. D., & Gaulin, S. J. C. (2009). Costs and benefits of fat-free muscle mass in men: Relationship to mating success, dietary requirements, and native immunity. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30, 322-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.04.002
Lee, A. J., Dubbs, S. L., Von Hippel, W., Brooks, R. C., & Zietsch, B. P. (2014). A multivariate approach to human mate preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 193-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.01.003
Li, N. P., Bailey, J. M., Kenrick, D. T., & Linsenmeier, J. A. W. (2002). The necessities and luxuries of mate preferences: Testing the tradeoffs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 947-955. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.82.6.947
Li, N. P., Griskevicius, V., Durante, K., Jonason, P. K., Pasisz, D. J., & Aumer, K. (2009). An evolutionary perspective on humor: Sexual selection or interest indication? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 923-936. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167209334786
Li, N. P., & Kenrick, D. T. (2006). Sex similarities and differences in preferences for short-term mates: What, whether, and why. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 468-489. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.90.3.468
Li, N. P., Valentine, K. A., & Patel, L. (2011). Mate preferences in the US and Singapore: A cross-cultural test of the mate preference priority model. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 291-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.10.005
Li, N. P., Yong, J. C., Tov, W., Sng, O., Fletcher, G. J. O., Valentine, K. A., … Balliet, D. (2013). Mate preferences do predict attraction and choices in the early stages of mate selection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105, 757-776. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033777
Little, A. C., Jones, B. C., & DeBruine, L. M. (2011). Facial attractiveness: Evolutionary based research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366, 1638-1659. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0404
Lukaszewski, A. W., & Roney, J. R. (2010). Kind toward whom? Mate preferences for personality traits are target specific. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 29-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.06.008
Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98, 224-253. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.98.2.224
Meltzer, A. L., McNulty, J. K., Jackson, G. L., & Karney, B. R. (2014). Sex differences in the implications of partner physical attractiveness for the trajectory of marital satisfaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 418-428. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034424
Miller, G. (2000). The mating mind: How sexual choice shaped the evolution of human nature (1st ed.). New York, NY: Doubleday.
Monstad, K., Propper, C., & Salvanes, K. G. (2008). Education and fertility: Evidence from a natural experiment. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 110, 827-852. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00563.x
Mulder, M. B., & Beheim, B. A. (2011). Understanding the nature of wealth and its effects on human fitness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366, 344-356. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0231
Najimudeen, M., & Sachchithanantham, K. (2014). An insight into low contraceptive prevalence in Malaysia and its probable consequences. International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 3, 493-496. https://doi.org/10.5455/2320-1770.ijrcog20140943
Nelissen, R. M., & Meijers, M. H. (2011). Social benefits of luxury brands as costly signals of wealth and status. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32, 343-355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.12.002
Pearce, A. R., Chuikova, T., Ramsey, A., & Galyautdinova, S. (2010). A positive psychology perspective on mate preferences in the United States and Russia. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 41, 742-757. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022110361775
Pflüger, L. S., Oberzaucher, E., Katina, S., Holzleitner, I. J., & Grammer, K. (2012). Cues to fertility: Perceived attractiveness and facial shape predict reproductive success. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 708-714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.05.005
Phelps, S. M., Rand, A. D., & Ryan, M. J. (2006). A cognitive framework for mate choice and species recognition. The American Naturalist, 167, 28-42. https://doi.org/10.1086/498538
Prinzie, P., Stams, G. J. J., Deković, M., Reijntjes, A. H., & Belsky, J. (2009). The relations between parents’ big five personality factors and parenting: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 351-362. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0015823
Richerson, P. J., & Boyd, R. (2001). The evolution of subjective commitment to groups: A tribal instincts hypothesis. In R. M. Nesse (Ed.), Evolution and the capacity for commitment (pp. 186-202). New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
Rosenthal, G. G. (2017). Mate choice: The evolution of sexual decision making from microbes to humans. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Rowe, H., Holton, S., Kirkman, M., Bayly, C., Jordan, L., McNamee, K., … Fisher, J. (2016). Prevalence and distribution of unintended pregnancy: The understanding fertility management in Australia National Survey. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 40, 104-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12461
Schmitt, D. P. (2003). Universal sex differences in the desire for sexual variety: Tests from 52 nations, 6 continents, and 13 islands. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 85-104. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.85.1.85
Schmitt, D. P. (2015). The evolution of culturally-variable sex differences: Men and women are not always different, but when they are … it appears not to result from patriarchy or sex role socialization. In T. K. Shackelford & R. D. Hansen (Eds.), The evolution of sexuality (pp. 221-256). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Schwarz, S., & Hassebrauck, M. (2012). Sex and age differences in mate-selection preferences. Human Nature, 23, 447-466. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-012-9152-x
Shenhav, S., Campos, B., & Goldberg, W. A. (2017). Dating out is intercultural: Experience and perceived parent disapproval by ethnicity and immigrant generation. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 34, 397-422. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407516640387
Singh, D., & Young, R. K. (1995). Body weight, waist-to-hip ratio, breasts, and hips: Role in judgments of female attractiveness and desirability for relationships. Ethology and Sociobiology, 16, 483-507. https://doi.org/10.1016/0162-3095(95)00074-7
Singh, K., Fong, Y., & Loh, S. (2002). Profile of women presenting for abortions in Singapore at the national university hospital. Contraception, 66, 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-7824(02)00317-7
Stewart-Williams, S., Butler, C. A., & Thomas, A. G. (2017). Sexual history and present attractiveness: People want a mate with a bit of a past, but not too much. Journal of Sex Research, 54, 1097-1105. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2016.1232690
Stewart-Williams, S., & Thomas, A. G. (2013). The ape that thought it was a peacock: Does evolutionary psychology exaggerate human sex differences? Psychological Inquiry, 24, 137-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840x.2013.804899
Sue, S., & Okazaki, S. (1990). Asian-American educational achievements: A phenomenon in search of an explanation. American Psychologist, 45, 913. https://doi.org/10.1037/1948-1985.S.1.45
Thomas, A. G. (2018). Lowering partner standards in a short-term mating context. In T. K. Shackelford, & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science (pp. 1-3). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Thomas, A. G., & Stewart-Williams, S. (2018). Mating strategy flexibility in the laboratory: Preferences for long- and short-term mating change in response to evolutionarily relevant variables. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 82-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.10.004
Ting-Toomey, S. (1994). Face and facework: An introduction. In S. Ting-Toomey (Ed.), The challenge of facework: Cross-cultural and interpersonal issues (pp. 1-14). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1990). On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation. Journal of Personality, 58, 17-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.1990.tb00907.x
Trivers, R. L. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection. In B. Campbell (Ed.), Sexual selection and the descent of man, 1871-1971 (pp. 136-179). Chicago, IL: Aldine-Atherton.
Tu, W., & Du, W. (1996). Confucian traditions in east asian modernity: Moral education and economic culture in japan and the four mini-dragons. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Vignoles, V. L., Owe, E., Becker, M., Smith, P. B., Easterbrook, M. J., Brown, R., … Bond, M. H. (2016). Beyond the “East-West” dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 966-1000. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000175
von Rueden, C. (2014). The roots and fruits of social status in small-scale human societies. In J. T. Cheng, J. L. Tracy, & C. Anderson (Eds.), The psychology of social status (pp. 179-200). New York, NY: Springer.
von Rueden, C., Gurven, M., & Kaplan, H. (2011). Why do men seek status? Fitness payoffs to dominance and prestige. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278, 2223-2232. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2145
Wagstaff, D., Sulikowski, D., & Burke, D. (2015). Sex-differences in preference for looking at the face or body in short-term and long-term mating contexts. Evolution, Mind and Behaviour, 13, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1556/2050.2015.0003
Watson, D., Klohnen, E. C., Casillas, A., Nus Simms, E., Haig, J., & Berry, D. S. (2004). Match makers and deal breakers: Analyses of assortative mating in newlywed couples. Journal of Personality, 72, 1029-1068. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3506.2004.00289.x
Yahya, S., & Boag, S. (2014). Till faith do us part…: Relation between religious affiliation and attitudes toward cross-cultural and interfaith dating and marriage. Marriage & Family Review, 50, 480-504. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2014.909376
Yong, J. C., Li, N. P., Jonason, P. K., & Tan, Y. W. (2019). East Asian low marriage and birth rates: The role of life history strategy, culture, and social status affordance. Personality and Individual Differences, 141, 127-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.01.009
Yue, G., Chen, H., & Zhang, Y. (2005). Verification of evolutionary hypothesis on human mate selection mechanism in cross-culture context. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 37, 561-568.