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Contrasting Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Countries

Daniel Conroy-Beam ¹

David M. Buss ²

Kelly Asao ²

Agnieszka Sorokowska ^{3, 4}

Piotr Sorokowski ³

Toivo Aavik ⁵

Grace Akello ⁶

Mohammad Madallh Alhabahba ⁷

Charlotte Alm ⁸

Naumana Amjad ⁹

Afifa Anjum ⁹

Chiemezie S. Atama ¹⁰

Derya Atamtürk Duyar ¹¹

Richard Ayebare ¹²

Carlota Batres ¹³

Mons Bendixen ¹⁴

Aicha Bensafia ¹⁵

Boris Bizumic ¹⁶

Mahmoud Boussena ¹⁷

Marina Butovskaya ^{18, 19}

Seda Can ²⁰

Katarzyna Cantarero ²¹

Antonin Carrier ²²

Hakan Cetinkaya ²³

Ilona Croy ²⁴

Rosa María Cueto ²⁵

Marcin Czub ³

Daria Dronova ¹⁸

Seda Dural ²⁰

Izzet Duyar ¹¹

Berna Ertugrul ²⁶

Agustín Espinosa ²⁵

Ignacio Estevan ²⁷

Carla Sofia Esteves ²⁸

Luxi Fang ²⁹

Tomasz Frackowiak ³

Jorge Contreras Garduño ³⁰

Karina Ugalde González ³¹

Farida Guemaz ³²

Petra Gyuris ³³

Mária Halamová ³⁴

Iskra Herak ³⁵

Marina Horvat ³⁶

Ivana Hromatko ³⁷

Chin Wai Hui ²⁹

Jas Laile Jaafar ³⁸

Feng Jiang ³⁹

Konstantinos Kafetsios ⁴⁰

Tina Kavčič ⁴¹

Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair ¹⁴

Nicolas Kervyn ³⁵

Truong Thi Khanh Ha ⁴²

Imran Ahmed Khilji ⁴³

Nils C. Köbis ⁴⁴

Hoang Moc Lan ⁴²

András Láng ³³

Georgina R. Lennard ¹⁶

Ernesto León ²⁵

Torun Lindholm ⁸

Trinh Thi Linh ⁴²

Giulia Lopez ⁴⁵

Nguyen Van Luot ⁴²

Alvaro Mailhos ²⁷

Zoi Manesi ⁴⁶

Rocio Martinez ⁴⁷

Sarah L. McKerchar ¹⁶

Norbert Meskó ³³

Girishwar Misra ⁴⁸

Conal Monaghan ¹⁶

Emanuel C. Mora ⁴⁹

Alba Moya-Garófano ⁴⁷

Bojan Musil ⁵⁰

Jean C. Natividade ⁵¹

Agnieszka Niemczyk ³

George Nizharadze ⁵²

Elisabeth Oberzaucher ⁵³

A. Oleszkiewicz ^{3, 4}

Mohd Sofian Omar-Fauzee ⁵⁴

Ike E. Onyishi ⁵⁵

Baris Özener ¹¹

Ariela F Pagani ⁴⁵

Vilmante Pakalniskiene ⁵⁶

Miriam Parise ⁴⁵

Farid Pazhoohi ⁵⁷

Annette Pisanski ⁴⁹

Katarzyna Pisanski ^{3, 58}

Edna Lúcia Tinoco Ponciano ⁵⁹

Camelia Popa ⁶⁰

Pavol Prokop ^{61, 62}

Muhammad Rizwan ⁶³

Mario Sainz ⁶⁴

Svjetlana Salkičević ³⁷

Ruta Sargautyte ⁵⁶

Ivan Sarmány-Schuller ⁶⁵

Susanne Schmehl ⁵³

Shivantika Sharad ⁶⁶

Razi Sultan Siddiqui ⁶⁷

Franco Simonetti ⁶⁸

Stanislava Stoyanova ⁶⁹

Meri Tadinac ³⁷

Marco Antonio Correa Varella ⁷⁰

Christin-Melanie Vauclair ²⁸

Luis Diego Vega ³¹

Dwi Ajeng Widarini ⁷¹

Gyesook Yoo ⁷²

Marta Zaťková ³⁴

Maja Zupančič ⁷³

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Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States of America |

Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States of America |

Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland |

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Smell & Taste Clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany |

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Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia |

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Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda |

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English Language Department, Middle East University, Amman, Jordan |

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Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SWEDEN |

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Institute of Applied Psychology, University of The Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan |

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Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |

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Deparment of Anthropology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey |

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North Star Alliance, Kampala, Uganda |

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Department of Psychology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, United States of America |

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Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway |

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EFORT, Department of Sociology, University of Algiers 2, Algiers, Algeria |

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Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |

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EFORT, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Algiers 2, Algiers, Algeria |

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Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia |

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Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia |

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Department of Psychology, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey |

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Social Behavior Research Center, Faculty in Wroclaw, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw, Poland |

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Psychology Faculty (CECOS), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |

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Department of Psychology, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey |

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Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany |

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Grupo de Psicología Política y Social (GPPS), Departamento de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú |

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Deparment of Anthropology, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey |

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Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República, Motevideo, Uruguay |

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Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Cis-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal |

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Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |

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Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Unidad Morelia UNAM, Morelia, Mexico |

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Psychology Department, Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica |

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EFORT, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Setif 2, Setif, Algeria |

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Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary |

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Faculty of Social Sciences and Health Care, Department of Psychological Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia |

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Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organisations (LOURiM), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |

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Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia |

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Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |

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Organization and Human Resource Management, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China |

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Psychology Department, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece |

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Faculty of Education, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia |

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VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Vietnam National University, Hanoi

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Department of Psychology, IMCB, F-10/4, Islamabad, Pakistan |

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Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Mating, Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands |

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Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy |

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Department of Experimental & Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands |

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Department of Social Psychology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain |

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Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India |

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Department of Animal and Human Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia |

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Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |

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Department of Social Sciences, Free Unviersity of Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia |

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Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria |

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School of Education, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia |

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Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria |

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Institute of Psychology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania |

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Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |

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Mammal Vocal Communication & Cognition Research Group, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom |

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Institute of Psychology, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, UNATC-CINETIc, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania |

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Department of Environmental Ecology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia |

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Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia |

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The Delve Pvt Ltd, Islamabad, Pakistan |

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School of Psychology, University of Monterrey, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico |

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Center for Social and Psychological Sciences, Institute of Experimental Psychology SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia |

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Department of Applied Psychology, Vivekananda College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India |

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Department of Management Sciences, DHA Suffa University, Karachi, Pakistan |

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School of Psychology, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile |

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Department of Psychology, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria |

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Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |

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Department of Communication, University Prof. Dr. Moestopo (Beragama), Jakarta, Indonesia |

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Department of Child & Family Studies, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2019-11-15

Springer Nature

Scientific Reports

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SJR: 0.874

CiteScore: 6.7

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ISSN: 20452322

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52748-8

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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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@article{2019_Conroy-Beam,

author = {Daniel Conroy-Beam and David M. Buss and Kelly Asao and Agnieszka Sorokowska and Piotr Sorokowski and Toivo Aavik and Grace Akello and Mohammad Madallh Alhabahba and Charlotte Alm and Naumana Amjad and Afifa Anjum and Chiemezie S. Atama and Derya Atamtürk Duyar and Richard Ayebare and Carlota Batres and Mons Bendixen and Aicha Bensafia and Boris Bizumic and Mahmoud Boussena and Marina Butovskaya and Seda Can and Katarzyna Cantarero and Antonin Carrier and Hakan Cetinkaya and Ilona Croy and Rosa María Cueto and Marcin Czub and Daria Dronova and Seda Dural and Izzet Duyar and Berna Ertugrul and Agustín Espinosa and Ignacio Estevan and Carla Sofia Esteves and Luxi Fang and Tomasz Frackowiak and Jorge Contreras Garduño and Karina Ugalde González and Farida Guemaz and Petra Gyuris and Mária Halamová and Iskra Herak and Marina Horvat and Ivana Hromatko and Chin Wai Hui and Jas Laile Jaafar and Feng Jiang and Konstantinos Kafetsios and Tina Kavčič and Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair and others},

title = {Contrasting Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Countries},

journal = {Scientific Reports},

year = {2019},

volume = {9},

publisher = {Springer Nature},

month = {nov},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52748-8},

number = {1},

pages = {16885},

doi = {10.1038/s41598-019-52748-8}

}

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Springer Nature

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Scientific Reports

scimago Q1

wos Q1

SJR

0.874

CiteScore

6.7

Impact factor

3.9

ISSN

20452322 (Print, Electronic)