A Half Century of Mate Preferences: The Cultural Evolution of Values

Buss, David M.; Shackelford, Todd K.; Kirkpatrick, Lee A.; Larsen, Randy J.

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2001.00491.x

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“…Buss andAngleitner 1989, Feingold 1990). This pattern has been found in various cultures (Buss 1989), although the difference between the genders seems to have lessened in more recent years (Buss et al 2001).…”

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Social Reproduction and Ethnic Boundaries: Marriage Patterns Through Time and Space Among the Wampar, Papua New Guinea

Beer

Schroedter

2014

Sociologus

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In this article we examine how partner choice and strategies of social reproduction among the Wampar of northeastern Papua New Guinea are implicated in currently pressing questions about the future of Wampar as a socio-cultural unit. We use long-term qualitative and quantitative data based on fieldwork and census surveys conducted between 1954 and 2013 from the village of Gabsongkeg to analyse temporal and spatial patterns of partner choice. We are especially interested in interethnic marriages and their effects on group boundaries and group identities, given a pre-existing pattern of ethnic endogamy. Our results show that intermarriages between Wampar and non-Wampar have constantly been rising; in younger marriage cohorts some 60% of Wampar individuals are intermarried with partners of other ethnic identities. The data reveal that local and historical particularities inflect partner choices in ways that impact on settlement patterns, modes of engagement with the economic institutions of the modern state and, ultimately, the taken-for-granted nature of the identity inhering in the name "Wampar"; these impacts, in turn, increase the likelihood of interethnic marriage and precipitate questions about the rights attaching to local corporate identities under conditions where land is increasingly related to its commodity values.

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Section: Characteristics Of and Exchanges Between Interethnic Partnerssupporting

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Social Reproduction and Ethnic Boundaries: Marriage Patterns Through Time and Space Among the Wampar, Papua New Guinea

Beer

Schroedter

2014

Sociologus

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“…However, characteristics such as attractiveness and financial prospects are differentially appreciated across sexes (BUSS 2012;BUSS and BARNES 1986;EASTWICK and FINKEL 2008;LI and KENRICK 2006). Males have been shown to focus more on visual, physical attractiveness, whilst females have been shown to look for cues indicative of wealth and status (BUSS 1989(BUSS , 2000BUSS et al 2001;EASTWICK and FINKEL 2008;LI et al 2002;SHACKELFORD et al 2005;SPRECHER et al 1994;TOWNSEND and WASSERMAN, 1998;DUNN and SEARLE 2010). For this female preference for wealth and status in a long-term partner to have evolved, arguably, certain preconditions would have to have prevailed during our evolutionary past.…”

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Manipulated luxury-apartment ownership enhances opposite-sex attraction in females but not males

Dünn¹,

Hill²

2014

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

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Abstract. Manipulated prestige car ownership has been shown previously to enhance male attractiveness. In the current study the illusion of status-linked property ownership was achieved by presenting a target male and female (matched for attractiveness) adopting a casual posture standing in either a 'high status' (luxury apartment) or a 'neutral status' (standard apartment) context. A between-subjects design was used with the photographic stimuli presented amongst other masking stimuli and rated for attractiveness by opposite-sex university undergraduate participants (N = 102) on a scale of 1-10. The male model was rated significantly more attractive when presented to females in the high status compared to the neutral status context and was also adjudged to be significantly more attractive than the female target superimposed on an identical background. There was no significant difference in the female target models attractiveness ratings given by males across the two contexts. These results were obtained despite no sex-differences being found when separate participants were asked to rate the plausibility of each target model owning or renting the luxury property they were depicted in. These findings add to a growing body of work high-lighting the importance of contextual, evolutionarily relevant status cues in male attractiveness judgements.

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“…behaviors that display caring, emotional commitment, and emotionally stability) are expected. Since women tend to prioritize emotional stability (Buss, 1989;Buss, Shackelford, Kirkpatrick, & Larsen, 2001), men should use these behaviors as tactics to attract women. Second, acts that show off a man's dominance and power should be common nominations since women use such actions to make inferences about a man's genetic parental investment potential.…”

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Sex and The Perceived Effectiveness of Short-term Mate Poaching Acts in College Students

Moran¹,

Wade²

2017

HEB

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A Half Century of Mate Preferences: The Cultural Evolution of Values

Cited by 402 publications

References 10 publications

Social Reproduction and Ethnic Boundaries: Marriage Patterns Through Time and Space Among the Wampar, Papua New Guinea

Social Reproduction and Ethnic Boundaries: Marriage Patterns Through Time and Space Among the Wampar, Papua New Guinea

Manipulated luxury-apartment ownership enhances opposite-sex attraction in females but not males

Sex and The Perceived Effectiveness of Short-term Mate Poaching Acts in College Students

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