Conditional mate preferences: Factors influencing preferences for height

Salska, Irmina; Frederick, David A.; Pawłowski, Bogusław; Reilly, Andrew; Laird, Kelsey T.; Rudd, Nancy A.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2007.08.008

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“…These results mirror those found for preferences for body height (Higgins et al, 2002;Jackson & Ervin, 1992;Pawlowski, 2003;Salska et al, 2008;Shepperd & Strathman, 1989). Furthermore, the degree of transform used to maximize facial attractiveness was predicted by participants' reported preference for height in a partner, as well as by own height for female participants.…”

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“…Furthermore, we examined whether preferences for facial cues to height are assortative based on own height, similar to the assortative preferences in body height reported elsewhere (Salska et al, 2008;Swami et al, 2008). Based on previous research on actual height preferences (Courtiol et al, 2010;Jackson & Ervin, 1992;Pawlowski, 2003;Salska et al, 2008;Shepperd & Strathman, 1989), we predict women will prefer faces of men who appear to be taller than average, and men will prefer faces of women who appear to be short to average height. We expect preferences for height cues in the face to reflect self-reported preferences for actual height.…”

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“…While 181 cm is certainly taller than the average man in the vast majority of western countries, including the United States (www.cdc.gov) and the United Kingdom (http://www.ic.nhs.uk), 167 cm is also slightly taller than the average western female, though slightly shorter than the average female used in our sample. Thus, while relative trends in preferences for apparent height in faces (taller than average in men, average or slightly shorter than average in women) reflect body height preferences (Pawlowski, 2003;Salska et al, 2008;Shepperd & Strathman, 1989), preferences for absolute height may be population specific.…”

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“…Both men and women prefer romantic relationships in which the man is taller than the woman (Courtiol et al, 2010;Higgins, Zheng, Liu, & Sun, 2002;Jackson & Ervin, 1992;Pawlowski, 2003;Salska et al, 2008). Women prefer taller men (Shepperd & Strathman, 1989) in general, though perhaps not extremely tall men (Courtiol et al, 2010;Hensley, 1994).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Men's preferences for women's heights are less clear, with various studies reporting male preferences for short (Shepperd & Strathman, 1989), average height (Swami et al, 2008), or taller than average (Courtiol et al, 2010) women. Previous research has demonstrated assortative preferences for height, with height preferences being influenced by a person's own height (Fink, Neave, Brewer, & Pawlowski, 2007;McManus & Mascie-Taylor, 1984;Pawlowski, 2003;Salska et al, 2008;Swami et al, 2008), and taller women and shorter men are more tolerant of dating partners of their own height (i.e. -prefer a lower ''sexual dimorphism in stature''; Pawlowski, 2003).…”

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a b s t r a c tPhysical height has a well-documented effect on human mate preferences. In general, both sexes prefer opposite-sex romantic relationships in which the man is taller than the woman, while individual preferences for height are affected by a person's own height. Research in human mate choice has demonstrated that attraction to facial characteristics, such as facial adiposity, may reflect preferences for body characteristics. Here, we tested preferences for facial cues to height. In general, increasing apparent height in men's faces and slightly decreasing apparent height in women's faces maximizes perceived attractiveness. Individual preferences for facial cues to height were predicted by self-reported preferences for actual height. Furthermore, women's own height predicted opposite-sex preferences for facial cues to apparent height, though this finding did not extend to male participants. These findings validate the use of facial cues to height and demonstrate a further component of facial attractiveness that reflects preferences for body characteristics.

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How and why do our minds generate different levels of attraction to others? This chapter integrates life history, evolutionary psychology, and human biology approaches to address this question. Biological adaptations regulate a vast number of life history trade‐offs that affect how we look, smell, sound, and behave. Selection produced adaptations that evaluate these cues and regulate our degree of attraction to others based on their relative probable social value to us in different contexts. This chapter outlinesthe alternative evolutionary explanations for the emergence of an attraction,basic components necessary for attraction systems to evolve, and sources of variation in attractiveness assessment. It identifies different domains of social value for which attractiveness assessment evolved, reviews evidence for some of the hypothesized attractiveness‐assessment adaptations in those domains, and highlights avenues calling for increased attention. Finally, it calls for greater integration of evolutionary psychology, human biological research, and data from small‐scale foraging societies to generate predictions about these domains of social value, the cues or signals associated with them, adaptations selected to regulate attraction to them, and the life history trade‐offs involved in these processes. New research on body shape attractiveness is presented to illustrate these points.

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Conditional mate preferences: Factors influencing preferences for height

Cited by 95 publications

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Concordant preferences for actual height and facial cues to height

Concordant preferences for actual height and facial cues to height

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