Posted by SeattleWilly
A new study published by Indiana University demonstrates that my theories on how men and women choose mates are correct. An Indiana University cognitive scientist, Peter Todd, and his colleagues found that even though people may claim otherwise:
- Beauty is the key factor for men
- Women choose men who match their own "self-percieved" physical attraction and trade beauty for overall security
The study was published the week of September 4-7 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the study, 46 adults participated in a speed-dating event where the adults filled out a pre-event questionnaire and found that the stated preferences did not predict the actual choices made during the speed-dates. Instead, men chose women based upon their physical attractiveness and women chose men whose overall desirability as a mate matched the women's self-perceived attractiveness. This study matched results found in previous studies and follows the evolutionary predictions of parental investment theory.
"Evolutionary theories in psychology suggest that men and women should trade off different traits in each other, and when we look at the actual mate choices people make, this is what we find evidence for," Todd said. "Ancestral individuals who made their mate choices in this way -- women trading off their attractiveness for higher quality men and men looking for any attractive women who will accept them -- would have had an evolutionary advantage in greater numbers of successful offspring."
You can get the study at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0705290104v1
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Tags: attraction, beauty, natural selection, evolution, parental investment theory, mating
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