A Rosier Reality: Incongruency in Stated and Revealed Ingroup Preferences among Young Asian American Speed Daters

Wu, Karen; Chen, Chuansheng; Greenberger, Ellen

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“…The effect of ideal partner-preference matching on romantic evaluations is one example of an attribute-matching test of compatibility: For example, people who believe that their ideal partner is “intelligent” should be especially likely to positively evaluate intelligent (vs. unintelligent) partners—a Perceiver-preference × Partner-trait interaction. Such interaction tests of ideal partner-preference matching on romantic evaluations tend to be quite small, regardless of whether participants are evaluating new acquaintances (e.g., after a first date, in a laboratory interaction, on a speed-date) or current romantic partners (Eastwick et al, 2011, in press; Eastwick & Finkel, 2008; Eastwick, Luchies, et al, 2014; Lam et al, 2016; Sparks et al, 2020; Wu et al, 2018; Valentine et al, 2020; but see Fletcher et al, 2020). In other words, the extent to which perceivers positively evaluate intelligent (vs. unintelligent) targets is only weakly tied to individual differences in the perceiver’s ideal preference for intelligence in a partner.…”

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Mate evaluation theory.

Eastwick¹,

Finkel²,

Joel³

2023

Psychological Review

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There are two unresolved puzzles in the literature examining how people evaluate mates (i.e., prospective or current romantic/sexual partners). First, compatibility is theoretically crucial, but attempts to explain why certain perceivers are compatible with certain targets have revealed small effects. Second, features of partners (e.g., personality, consensually rated attributes) affect perceivers' evaluations strongly in initial-attraction contexts but weakly in established relationships. Mate Evaluation Theory (MET) addresses these puzzles, beginning with the Social Relations Model postulate that all evaluative constructs (e.g., attraction, relationship satisfaction) consist of target, perceiver, and relationship variance. MET then explains how people draw evaluations from mates' attributes using four information sources: (a) shared evolved mechanisms and cultural scripts (common lens, which produces target variance); (b) individual differences that affect how a perceiver views all targets ( perceiver lens, which produces perceiver variance); (c) individual differences that affect how a perceiver views some targets, depending on the targets' features ( feature lens, which produces some relationship variance); and (d) narratives about and idiosyncratic reactions to one particular target (targetspecific lens, which produces most relationship variance). These two distinct sources of relationship variance (i.e., feature vs. target-specific) address Puzzle #1: Previous attempts to explain compatibility used feature lens information, but relationship variance likely derives primarily from the (understudied) target-specific lens. MET also addresses Puzzle #2 by suggesting that repeated interaction causes the target-specific lens to expand, which reduces perceivers' use of the common lens. We conclude with new predictions and implications at the intersection of the human-mating and person-perception literatures.

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Section: Two Puzzles In the Human Mating Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Mate evaluation theory.

Eastwick¹,

Finkel²,

Joel³

2023

Psychological Review

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“…But the hypothesis has not commonly been supported when participants evaluated a partner with whom they were not romantically involved, as suggested by studies of initial attraction (e.g., Eastwick & Finkel, 2008;Selterman & Gideon, 2022;Wu et al, 2018). However, direct comparisons of effect sizes for established relationship versus initial attraction partners remain elusive, as studies conducted in these two contexts typically differ from each other in innumerable ways.…”

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A Worldwide Test of the Predictive Validity of Ideal Partner Preference-Matching

Eastwick¹,

Sparks²,

Finkel³

et al. 2023

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Ideal partner preferences (i.e., ratings of the desirability of attributes like attractiveness or intelligence) are the source of numerous foundational findings in the interdisciplinary literature on human mating. Recently, research on the predictive validity of ideal partner preference-matching (i.e., do people positively evaluate partners who match versus mismatch their ideals?) has become mired in several problems. For one, articles exhibit discrepant analytic and reporting practices. Furthermore, different findings emerge across laboratories worldwide, perhaps because they sample different relationship contexts and/or populations. The current project—partnered with the Psychological Science Accelerator—can bring clarity to this literature. This registered report uses a highly powered design across multiple world regions to calculate preference-matching effect sizes and variability estimates for all relevant analytic tests. It also examines effects in different relationship contexts and subsamples (e.g., attraction, established relationships, recently formed relationships).

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A level playing field: No competitive advantage of conception risk in speed‐dating

Chen

2021

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While women often experience headaches, pain, and shifts in mood around their time of the month (premenstrual syndrome;Dickerson et al., 2003), less is known about the social consequences of women's menstrual cycles. In the past two decades, psychologists have studied the human ovulatory cycle at length, attempting to pinpoint its significance in human mate selection. Human ovulatory cues, once thought to be "concealed," have recently been detected through women's behavior, scent, voice, and physical appearance (Haselton & Gildersleeve, 2011). Women's subtle ovulatory cues may serve an important evolutionary purpose, signaling fertility to desirable partners without attracting unwanted sexual advances . Thus, ovulating women may have a greater ability to reproduce with high-quality men. Alternatively, the "leaky cues hypothesis" (Haselton & Gildersleeve, 2016) posits that ovulatory cues are not evolutionarily adaptive, but instead result as a by-product of hormonal shifts. It is further suggested that evolutionary pressures may have in fact led to the greater concealment of ovulatory cues that sets human estrus apart from that of other mammals.Despite the relatively hidden nature of human estrus, near ovulation, women have been found to smell (Gildersleeve et al., 2012), look (Oberzaucher et al., 2012 and sound more attractive (Karthikeyan & Locke, 2015;Pipitone & Gallup, 2008). Women have also been found to be more receptive to men's advances near ovulation, agreeing to dance with unknown male confederates (Guéguen, 2009a) and giving their phone numbers out to them (Guéguen, 2009b) at higher rates. Their sexual interest is seemingly accompanied by greater efforts to enhance their own beauty (Haselton et al., 2007). A recent preregistered 40-day diary study of 421 heterosexual normally cycling women (143 with valid data) confirmed that near conception, women show a greater desire for both their partners and for men aside from their partners, along with greater assessments of their own desirability (Arslan et al., 2018). However, contrary to expectations, these same women did not dress differently or behave differently with regard to mate retention techniques.Taken together, ovulatory cues appear to have a tangible effect on men's sexual interest. Men have been found to rate their female partners as more attractive when they are ovulating (Cobey et al., 2013). Accordingly, men are more possessive when their female partners are more fertile (Gangestad et al., 2002), even showing greater increases in testosterone in response to romantic rivals (Fales et al., 2014). Men have also been found to experience increases in testosterone and sexual interest after being exposed to the scent of fertile

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A Rosier Reality: Incongruency in Stated and Revealed Ingroup Preferences among Young Asian American Speed Daters

Cited by 5 publications

References 47 publications

Mate evaluation theory.

Mate evaluation theory.

A Worldwide Test of the Predictive Validity of Ideal Partner Preference-Matching

A level playing field: No competitive advantage of conception risk in speed‐dating

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