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===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">Looks are most important to women in speed dating</span>=== | ===<span style="font-family:'Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif'; font-size:24px; font-weight: normal;">Looks are most important to women in speed dating</span>=== | ||
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Luo & Zhang (2009) conducted a speed-dating experiment consisted of (n=108) participants divided into two equal opposite sex groups. Before the speed-dating event, the participants completed a battery of psychometric tests and surveys designed to measure the big-five personality traits, attachment style, self-esteem, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affect_(psychology) affectivity] interests and political and personal values. Six speed dating events were conducted, each 60 minutes in length. | |||
Each date was 5 minutes long, with participants completing a questionnaire recording their evaluation of the date and their partners. The participants were informed that they were allowed to inquire about their date's contact information for further interaction outside the experiment, at their own risk. | |||
After the dates were completed the participants were asked to complete a one-page post event questionnaire about their feelings and perceptions for each partner (i.e their desire for further contact, comfort and attraction towards their dates) and a one-page questionnaire of self-ratings. | |||
The participants' physical attractiveness was evaluated by a team of eight researchers ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronbach%27s_alpha interrater agreement]=.86) | |||
Ultimately, it was found that the only significant predictors of women's attraction to their dates was their dates physical attractiveness, and their interest in sporting activities. Whereas men's attraction, while also extremely related to the physical attractiveness of their partner (r=.88) was also significantly related to a number of personality traits, their partners age (with men preferring women up to the limit of 26 yrs old used in the study) and their partners political beliefs (men preferring conservative women). | |||
There was also some evidence for the reciprocity principle (i.e that people like others more when their liking is reciprocated) but only after the participants had been informed of their partner's favorable responses towards them. There was no evidence that similarity in terms of convergent political beliefs, values, and personality traits measured mattered when it came to predicting attraction, at least in terms of the short-term dating paradigm used in this study. | |||
<span style="font-size:125%>'''Quotes:'''</span> | |||
* ''The strongest predictor of attraction was partner’s physical attractiveness, and this was well replicated across sex.'' | |||
* ''Our results indicate that people like their partners better if they know their partners also like them.However, there was no evidence for the idea that similarity boosts attraction.'' | |||
* ''It therefore seems a very solid finding that men and women are equally strongly drawn to physically attractive partners.'' | |||
* ''This finding, however, appears to be inconsistent with the widely accepted finding in evolutionary research indicating a fundamental sex difference in their preferences for long-term partners ... evolutionary research does suggest that these sex differences in mating preferences tend to diminish or even disappear when short-term mating contexts are primed.'' | |||
* ''In our particular case, it seems that women’s attraction feeling is dominated by partners’ physical attractiveness, just as their male counterparts, even though it is possible that when prompted to think about preferences for a potential mate, women would give priority considerations to characteristics like earning potential.'' | |||
<span style="font-size:125%>'''References:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%>'''References:'''</span> | ||