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* ''The strongest predictor of attraction was partner’s physical attractiveness, and this was well replicated across sex.'' | * ''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.'' | * ''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.'' | * ''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.'' | * ''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.'' |
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