Is a meta-analysis a foundation, or just another brick? Comment on Meltzer, McNulty, Jackson, and Karney (2014).

PW Eastwick, LA Neff, EJ Finkel, LB Luchies, LL Hunt - 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
In a longitudinal data set of married couples, Meltzer, McNulty, Jackson, and Karney (2014)
reported that partner physical attractiveness is more strongly associated with relationship …

Men still value physical attractiveness in a long-term mate more than women: Rejoinder to Eastwick, Neff, Finkel, Luchies, and Hunt (2014).

AL Meltzer, JK McNulty, GL Jackson, BR Karney - 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Sexual selection theory and parental investment theory suggest that partner physical
attractiveness should more strongly affect men's relationship outcomes than women's …

Dyadic secondary meta-analysis: Attractiveness in mixed-sex couples

GD Webster, Z Li, SY Park, EA Mahar… - Personality and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Do people in opposite-sex romantic relationships have similar physical attractiveness, as
reflected in self-reports and observations made by others? How accurate are people at …

Sex differences in the implications of partner physical attractiveness for the trajectory of marital satisfaction.

AL Meltzer, JK McNulty, GL Jackson… - Journal of personality …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Do men value physical attractiveness in a mate more than women? Scientists in numerous
disciplines believe that they do, but recent research using speed-dating paradigms suggests …

Sex-differentiated effects of physical attractiveness on romantic desire: A highly powered, preregistered study in a photograph evaluation context

PW Eastwick, LK Smith - Comprehensive Results in Social …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A large, controversial literature has examined the hypothesis that the
attractiveness of potential partners predicts romantic desire more strongly for men than for …

Emotional accessibility is more important than sexual accessibility in evaluating romantic relationships–especially for women: A conjoint analysis

TJ Wade, J Mogilski - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Prior research examining mate expulsion indicates that women are more likely to expel a
mate due to deficits in emotional access while men are more likely to expel a mate due to …

Does marriage really improve sexual satisfaction? Evidence from the Pairfam dataset

E Kislev - The Journal of Sex Research, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In light of the growing unmarried demographic, this study analyzed the extent and
determinants of sexual satisfaction among seven relationship-status groups: married, never …

Women and men are the barometers of relationships: Testing the predictive power of women's and men's relationship satisfaction

MD Johnson, JA Lavner, A Muise… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
There is a longstanding belief in relationship science and popular opinion that women are
the barometers in mixed-gender relationships such that their perceptions about the …

If I'm not hot, are you hot or not? Physical-attractiveness evaluations and dating preferences as a function of one's own attractiveness

L Lee, G Loewenstein, D Ariely, J Hong… - Psychological …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Prior research has established that people's own physical attractiveness affects their
selection of romantic partners. This article provides further support for this effect and also …

Gender differences in effects of physical attractiveness on romantic attraction: A comparison across five research paradigms.

A Feingold - Journal of Personality and social psychology, 1990 - psycnet.apa.org
Evolutionary and sociocultural theories of mate selection preferences contend that men
place greater value on physical attractiveness than do women. Thus, meta-analyses were …