title: Individual differences in valuing mates' physical attractiveness.
abstract: To investigate correlates of valuing physical attractiveness in a mate, it was hypothesized that valuing physical attractiveness in a mate would correlate with sex and valuing promiscuous sex, status, personal physical attractiveness, beauty, and order. Men and women college students completed measures of the extent to which they valued physical attractiveness in a mate and other variables. Valuing physical attractiveness in a mate was correlated with sex (men valued physical attractiveness in a mate more than did women) and valuing promiscuous sex and status, and, for women, valuing personal physical attractiveness. The results were explained in terms of evolutionary theory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Waggoner Hall 100, Western Illinois University, 1 University Circle, Malcomb, IL 61455-1390, USA.
authors.forename: Eugene W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Mathes
authors.forename: Abby
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bielser
authors.forename: Ticcarra
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cassell
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Summers
authors.forename: Aggie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Witowski
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001504:Beauty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D011287:Prejudice; D012737:Sex Factors; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012945:Social Values; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires