Researchers studying human sexuality have repeatedly concluded that men place more
emphasis on the physical attractiveness of potential mates than women do, particularly in …

Ten years ago, Buss and Shackelford demonstrated that high mate value (ie, physically
attractive) women held more discerning mate preferences relative to lower mate value …

Sexual selection processes have received much attention in recent years, attention reflected
in interest in human mate preferences. Among these mate preferences are preferences for …

According to recent evolutionary theory, males and females have been selected for different
kinds of mate preferences as behavioral adaptations in our ancestral past. These …

Despite huge interest in human mate choice in the last two decades, intraspecific variation in
human mate preferences has received relatively little attention. We investigated individual …

Empirical evidence concerning human mate-choice preferences suggests that females
should select partners on the basis of cues to genetic quality and/or ability to contribute …

This study tested two hypotheses concerning the cognitive processes underlying human
mate choice in Western society:(i) mate preference is conditional in that the selectivity of …

Sexual selection and parental investment theory have been used to study mate selection for
many years and for much of that time has been applied to humans, with the prediction that …

Most research on mate choice in modern societies is based on data that may or may not
reflect actual mating behavior (eg, stated preferences, personal advertisements). In the …

Matepreferences have been well studied in social and evolutionary psychology. In two
studies (N= 490), using two different measurement techniques, we examined mate …