Romantic ideals, mate preferences, and anticipation of future difficulties in marital life: a comparative study of young adults in India and America

Bejanyan, Kathrine; Marshall, Tara C.; Ferenczi, Nelli

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01355

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“…It is also possible that the perception of male attractiveness is influenced by the sexually restricted behavior of Indian women [152]. Further, the participants’ attitudes to traditional marriage practices could also significantly uncover the differences in preferences of collectivistic societies such as India or Turkey [153, 154]. Moreover, information about the eye color of family members and partners of our raters would have helped to answer questions related to assortative mating [72].…”

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Perceived attractiveness of Czech faces across 10 cultures: Associations with sexual shape dimorphism, averageness, fluctuating asymmetry, and eye color

2019

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Research on the perception of faces typically assumes that there are some universal values of attractiveness which are shared across individuals and cultures. The perception of attractiveness may, however, vary across cultures due to local differences in both facial morphology and standards of beauty. To examine cross-cultural consensus in the ratings of attractiveness, we presented a set of 120 non-manipulated photographs of Czech faces to ten samples of raters from both European (Czech Republic, Estonia, Sweden, Romania, Turkey, Portugal) and non-European countries (Brazil, India, Cameroon, Namibia). We examined the relative contribution of three facial markers (sexual shape dimorphism, averageness, fluctuating asymmetry) to the perception of attractiveness as well as the possible influence of eye color, which is a locally specific trait. In general, we found that both male and female faces which were closer to the average and more feminine in shape were regarded as more attractive, while fluctuating asymmetry had no effect. Despite a high cross-cultural consensus on attractiveness standards, significant differences in the perception of attractiveness seem to be related to the level of socio-economic development (as measured by the Human Development Index, HDI). Attractiveness ratings by raters from low-HDI countries (India, Cameroon, Namibia) converged less with ratings from Czech Republic than ratings from high-HDI countries (European countries and Brazil). With respect to eye color, some local patterns emerged which we discuss as a consequence of negative frequency-dependent selection.

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Perceived attractiveness of Czech faces across 10 cultures: Associations with sexual shape dimorphism, averageness, fluctuating asymmetry, and eye color

2019

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“…South Asian Americans find themselves in the cultural closet when they date someone outside of their particular group (e.g., ethnic, religious) and hide their relationship. Because South Asian Americans are likely to be bicultural (Bejanyan et al, 2014) and identify with both American and South Asian values, they may date earlier than their parents would prefer. The generational differences are often related to differing rates in the acculturation process (Farver et al, 2002).…”

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The Cultural Closet: The South Asian American Experience of Keeping Romantic Relationships Secret

Khera

Ahluwalia

2021

J Multicult Couns & Deve

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Many South Asian Americans face challenges when they are in romantic relationships outside of their racial, ethnic, or religious group. Because of values associated with dating and marriage, one challenge is disclosing the relationship to family. South Asian Americans often hide their relationships, and we propose that this experience has parallels to the closet for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals. In this article, we name this experience the “cultural closet” and discuss the associated theory, context, consequences, and counseling implications. Muchos americanos surasiáticos afrontan desafíos cuando se encuentran en relaciones amorosas fuera de su grupo racial, étnico o religioso. Uno de los desafíos es revelar la relación a su familia, a causa de los valores asociados con las citas y el matrimonio. Con frecuencia, los americanos surasiáticos ocultan sus relaciones, y proponemos que esta experiencia tiene correspondencias con el armario para personas lesbianas, gais, bisexuales, transexuales y queer. En este artículo, denominamos esta experiencia el “armario cultural” y discutimos la teoría, el contexto, las consecuencias y las implicaciones para la consejería asociadas.

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“…Some findings are expected to be culturally universal that reflects human evolved predispositions (Apostolou, 2008a). For example, traits indicating parental investment and cooperation with the in-group should be more preferred by Chinese parents in an in-law, while traits indicating genetic quality and traits related to romantic love should be more preferred by Chinese children in a spouse (Bejanyan et al, 2014(Bejanyan et al, , 2015; The parents' preferences in an in-law should also be moderated by the gender of the in-law. Most importantly, there should be cultural-specific findings that can be explained by traditional cultural values characterized by the ideology of filial piety.…”

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In-Law and Mate Preferences in Chinese Society and the Role of Traditional Cultural Values

Guo

2017

Evol Psychol

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Using 347 parent-child dyads as participants, this study directly examined in-law and mate preferences in a typical collectivist culture. The results showed (1) traits indicating social status and parental investment were more highly valued by the parents, while traits indicating genetic quality and traits related to romantic love were more highly valued by the children. (2) Parental preferences were moderated by gender of the in-laws. Good earning capacity was more preferred by parents in a son-in-law, traits connoting genetic quality and reproductive fitness were more preferred by parents in a daughter-in-law. (3) There was more convergence in in-law and mate preferences in Chinese culture than in Western cultures. (4) Traditional cultural values (i.e., filial piety) can be used as a predictor of traditional mate preferences and less parent-child divergences. Additionally, greater preference for kind and understanding by parents than by children as well as by daughters than by sons, and greater preference for social status by the daughters' than by the sons' parents have not been observed in the rating and the ranking instrument. These findings illustrated how culture handles the parent-child disagreement over mating by authorizing greater parental influence on children's mating decisions.

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Romantic ideals, mate preferences, and anticipation of future difficulties in marital life: a comparative study of young adults in India and America

Cited by 29 publications

References 84 publications

Perceived attractiveness of Czech faces across 10 cultures: Associations with sexual shape dimorphism, averageness, fluctuating asymmetry, and eye color

Perceived attractiveness of Czech faces across 10 cultures: Associations with sexual shape dimorphism, averageness, fluctuating asymmetry, and eye color

The Cultural Closet: The South Asian American Experience of Keeping Romantic Relationships Secret

In-Law and Mate Preferences in Chinese Society and the Role of Traditional Cultural Values

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