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The effect of attractiveness on food sharing preferences in human mating markets.
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dc.contributor.author | Stirrat, Michael Robert | |
dc.contributor.author | Gumert, Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | Perrett, David Ian | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-18T16:30:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-18T16:30:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-02-28 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Stirrat , M R , Gumert , M & Perrett , D I 2011 , ' The effect of attractiveness on food sharing preferences in human mating markets. ' , Evolutionary Psychology , vol. 9 , no. 1 , pp. 79-91 . https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491100900110 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1474-7049 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 6067173 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 8edab287-96eb-41cb-892f-22c09ce25f6e | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84875864816 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-6025-0939/work/64360933 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/16278 | |
dc.description | This research was funded by an EPSRC grant received by the first author. | en |
dc.description.abstract | The current study explored how physical attractiveness affects food sharing by studying payment preferences for hypothetical romantic dinner dates (a hypothetical mating market). We analyzed payment preferences, self-rated attractiveness, and rated attractiveness for hypothetical dates in 416 participants. We hypothesized that (1) men would be more likely to prefer to pay than would women, (2) attractive individuals of both sexes would be less willing to pay, and (3) preferences to enter an exchange would be influenced by the attractiveness of prospective partners such that (3a) men would prefer to pay for attractive women, and (3b) women would prefer to be paid for by attractive men. All hypotheses were supported by our results. Individuals with higher self-rated attractiveness were more likely to prefer that their date would pay for the meal, and we found clear sex differences in how the attractiveness of potential dates affected payment preferences. Male participants preferred to pay for dates that had higher facial attractiveness, while female participants preferred that attractive men would pay. Individuals show condition dependent financial preferences consistent with the provisioning hypothesis in this mating market that are adaptive to evaluations of their own quality and that of prospective partners. | |
dc.format.extent | 13 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Evolutionary Psychology | en |
dc.rights | Copyright 2011 the authors/publisher. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). | en |
dc.subject | Food sharing | en |
dc.subject | Condition dependence | en |
dc.subject | Sexual selection | en |
dc.subject | Mate choice | en |
dc.subject | Dating | en |
dc.subject | Facial attractiveness | en |
dc.subject | Mating market | en |
dc.subject | BF Psychology | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BF | en |
dc.title | The effect of attractiveness on food sharing preferences in human mating markets. | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491100900110 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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