Contrasting Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Countries
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2019Referencia bibliográfica
Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D. M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., Aavik, T., ... & Anjum, A. (2019). contrasting computational Models of Mate preference integration Across 45 Countries. Scientific reports, 9(1), 1-13.
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The work of Truong Thi Khanh Ha was supported by grants 501.01–2016.02 from the Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED). Anna Oleszkiewicz was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (#626/STYP/12/2017). This study was conducted in line with project NIR No. 01201370995 “Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary researches. Biosocial and cross-cultural analysis of models of tolerance and basic values of culture in modern society” (Marina Butovskaya and Daria Dronova). Agnieszka Sorokowska and Piotr Sorokowski were supported by the National Science Center—Poland (2014/13/B/HS6/02644). Petra Gyuris, András Láng, and Norbert Meskó were supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund — OTKA (K125437). Feng Jiang was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China, grant No. 71971225.Resumen
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.