Positive assortative pairing in social and romantic partners: A cross-cultural observational field study of naturally occurring pairs

Figueredo, Aurelio José; Wolf, Pedro S. A.; Olderbak, Sally; Sefcek, Jon A.; Frı́as-Armenta, Martha; Porras, Carolina Vargas; Egan, Vincent

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2014.12.060

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“…Luo & Klohnen, ), anti‐social behaviour (Frisell, Pawitan, Langström, & Lichtenstein, ), life history strategy and mate value (e.g. Figueredo & Wolf, ; Figueredo et al, ; Olderbak & Figueredo, ).…”

Section: Predictors Of Attraction: Five Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Price & Vandenberg, 1980). In support of the inclusion of mate value and life history strategy, these are traits on which romantic partners are assortatively mated (Figueredo et al, 2015); self and partner trait levels have been shown to predict not only current (Olderbak & Figueredo, 2009, 2012 but also future satisfaction in a romantic relationship, in addition to relationship dissolution (Olderbak & Figueredo, 2010); and participants rate their ideal partnerˈs mate value, for a short or long-term relationship, as similar to their own (Kirsner et al, 2003). While mate value was defined previously, and the Big Five personality factors are well-known constructs within the field of psychology, life history strategy is not as well known, so we provide a definition here.…”

Section: Individual Difference Traitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Predicting Romantic Interest at Zero Acquaintance: Evidence of Sex Differences in Trait Perception but Not in Predictors of Interest

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We evaluated five competing hypotheses about what predicts romantic interest. Through a half-block quasi-experimental design, a large sample of young adults (i.e., responders; n = 335) viewed videos of opposite-sex persons (i.e., targets) talking about themselves and responders rated the targets’ traits and their romantic interest in the target. We tested whether similarity, dissimilarity, or overall trait levels on mate value, physical attractiveness, life history strategy, and the Big-Five personality factors predicted romantic interest at zero acquaintance, and whether sex acted as a moderator. We tested the responders’ individual perception of the targets’ traits, in addition to the targets’ own self-reported trait levels and a consensus rating of the targets made by the responders. We used polynomial regression with response surface analysis within multilevel modeling to test support for each of the hypotheses. Results suggest a large sex difference in trait perception; when women rated men, they agreed in their perception more often than when men rated women. However, as a predictor of romantic interest, there were no sex differences. Only the responders’ perception of the targets’ physical attractiveness predicted romantic interest; specifically, responders’ who rated the targets’ physical attractiveness as higher than themselves reported more romantic interest.

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Section: Individual Difference Traitsmentioning

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Predicting Romantic Interest at Zero Acquaintance: Evidence of Sex Differences in Trait Perception but Not in Predictors of Interest

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“…Furthermore, similarity in personality traits among couples is associated with marital quality [6][7][8], although other studies have disputed the strength of this effect [9]. There is also evidence for assortative preferences based on evolutionarily relevant traits such as wealth and status, commitment to family, sexual fidelity, life history strategy and sensational interests [10,11], according to a 'likes-attract' decision rule [10].…”

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Evidence for odour-mediated assortative mating in humans: The impact of hormonal contraception and artificial fragrances

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Williams

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Physiology & Behavior

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There is substantial evidence for assortative partner preferences in humans based on physical characteristics. In contrast, evidence suggests that olfactory preferences tend to be disassortative, with people preferring body odour of potential partners who are dissimilar at key genetic loci, perhaps to gain fitness advantage through offspring heterozygosity. We compared ratings of perceived body odour similarity of real couples with those of randomly paired 'fake' couples. Contrary to prediction, we find that odours of real partners are perceived more, rather than less, similar to each other than fake couples. However, this applied only to natural odour samples: there were no differences in similarity levels of real and fake couples' samples which were collected while wearing artificial fragrances. Furthermore, in light of suggestions that hormonal contraception (HC) disrupts disassortative odour preferences in women, we compared odour similarity among real couples in which the female partner was using or not using HC at the time when the relationship began. We find that odours of HC-using couples are of intermediate similarity between non-using and fake couples, suggesting that HC use during partner choice could affect odour-influenced assortment. We also examined the association between relationship satisfaction and perceived similarity of unfragranced odours of real couples. We found that these are positively correlated in male partners but negatively correlated in the female partners, indicative of a sex difference in the relative favourability of odour similarity in partner preference. Finally, by comparing odour similarity ratings with those given by perfumers using a novel olfactory lexicon we found evidence that similarity judgements were based on the Spicy/Animalic aspects of individual odour profiles. Taken together, our results challenge the conventional view that odour-mediated partner preferences in humans are typically disassortative.

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The General Factor of Personality: A Hierarchical Life History Model

Figueredo

Jacobs

2015

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

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Building on evolutionary models of personality proposed in the first edition of the Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology , this chapter considers the evolutionary significance of a relatively new higher‐order personality construct, the so‐called general factor of personality (GFP). The history of the construct is reviewed, along with a large portion of the recent theoretical literature addressing the existence and nature of the GFP and the empirical literaturerelevant to that. Finally, a review and evaluation is conducted of various recent attempts to develop and test a hierarchical

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Positive assortative pairing in social and romantic partners: A cross-cultural observational field study of naturally occurring pairs

Cited by 7 publications

References 32 publications

Predicting Romantic Interest at Zero Acquaintance: Evidence of Sex Differences in Trait Perception but Not in Predictors of Interest

Predicting Romantic Interest at Zero Acquaintance: Evidence of Sex Differences in Trait Perception but Not in Predictors of Interest

Evidence for odour-mediated assortative mating in humans: The impact of hormonal contraception and artificial fragrances

The General Factor of Personality: A Hierarchical Life History Model

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