Survey about mate preferences by university students of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (from 20 to 27 years old)
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07/2011
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The election about mate preferences studies, determine if the characteristics desirable and selected are universal, or if the difference sexual preferences are influenced by the culture as a modulator factor in the evolutionary preferences that could exist. So that it’s the reason we compared the results with other surveys made in different times and cultures. The main object the study goal is to verify if some more evident evolutionary predictions stay on the sexual differences in the stable mate relationships preferences differentiating the stable relations from the fleeting ones. The students answers show that, the characteristics that are valued to have a stable pair are the commitment, the amiability, sincerity and the understanding in general. When comparing the sex preferences based on sex, are observed statically significant differences with respect to the attractive physicist, more valued by the men, and the social position by the women. When they choose for a fleeting mate they selected physical attractiveness more than, later the affection and the amiability. There are statistically significant differences between which they value both sexes in the precise relations, the women, the affection and the social position and the men, the physical attractiveness and the enigmatic personality.
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mate preferences, variation in the mate preferences, students survey
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Buss, D. M.; Barnes, M.F. (1986) Preferences in human mate selection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 559-570.
Buss, D. M.; Schmitt, D.P. (1993) Sexual strategies theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating. Psychological Review, 100, 204-232.
Demoscopia , (1997) El País , 23/04/1997.
Haberman S.J. (1978) Analysis of qualitative data (Vol I). New York: Academic.
Harrison, A.A; Saeed,L. (1977) Let’s make a deal: An analysis of revelations and stipulations in lonely heart’s advertisements. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35:257-264.
Hill, R. (1945) Campus values in mate selection. Journal of Home Economics, 37, 554-558.
Hudson, J.W.; Henze, L.F. (1969) Campus values in mate selection: A replication. Journal of Marriage and the family, 31, 772-775.
Ford, C.; Beach, F.(1951). Patterns of sexual behaviour. New York; Harper &Row.
Kernick, D.T.; Sadalla, E.K.; Groth, G.; Trost, M.R. (1990) Evolution, traits, and stages of human courtship: Qualifying the parental investment model. Journal of Personality, 58, 97-116.
Langhorne, M.C.; Secord, P.F. (1955): Variations in marital needs with age, sex, marital status, and regional composition. Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 19-37.
Laumann, E; Gagnon, J.; Michael, R.; Michaels, S. (1994): The social organization of sexuality. Chicago University press.
Maté C.; Acarín, N. (2010): Encuesta sobre las relaciones sexuales a estudiantes de la UPF (20 a 27 años) (en prensa).
McGinnis, R. (1958): Campus values in mate selection. Social Forces, 35, 368-373.
Singh,D. (1993): Adaptative significance of waist-to-hip ratio and female physical attractiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 293-307.
Schmith, D.P; Buss, D.M. (1996): Strategic self-promotion and competitor derogation: sex and context effects on the perceived effectiveness of mate attraction tactics. Journal of Personality, 70, 1185-1204.
Schmith, D.P; Buss, D.M. (2001): Human mate poaching:Tactics and Temptations for infiltrating existing mateships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001, vol 80,6, 894-917.
Suggs, D.; Miracle, A.(Eds) (1993): Culture and human Sexuality. Pacific Groves, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Wiederman,M.W.(1996):Evolved gender differences in mate preferences: Evidence from personal advertisements. Ethologgy and Sociobiology.
Wiederman, M.W; Allgeier, E.(1992): Gender differences in mate selection criteria: Sociobiological or socioeconomic explanations? , 13: 115-124.