title: What do women's advertised mate preferences reveal? An analysis of video dating profiles.
abstract: This study examined women's video dating profiles to determine what their advertised mate preferences revealed about their mate value and relationship interests. Women created a one-minute long video dating profile for a hypothetical dating website. The videos were content analyzed into four categories of stated mate preferences: 1) "good genes" indicators 2) good resource investment potential indicators 3) good parenting indicators and 4) good partner indicators. Long-term mating interest was positively correlated with describing good partner indicators and self-perceived mate value was positively correlated with describing good genes indicators. Short-term mating interest was negatively correlated with describing any mate preferences while attractiveness was positively correlated with doing so. Results suggest that women's advertised mate preferences provide clues to their underlying relationship interests and mate value.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. cdgoetz@gmail.com
authors.forename: Cari D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Goetz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003380:Courtship / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D012747:Sexual Partners / Q000523:psychology*; D014741:Video Recording; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult