It is not all about mating: Attractiveness predicts partner value across multiple relationship domains.
An account of the "beauty premium" based only on mating motivations overlooks adaptationist models of social valuation that have broader explanatory power. We suggest a broader approach based on evolved preferences for attractive partners in multiple cooperative domains (not just mating), which accounts for many observations of attractiveness-based preferential treatment more comfortably than does the target article's mating-specific account.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,University of California,Santa Barbara,Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660Eisenbruch@psych.ucsb.edujames.roney@psych.ucsb.eduhttp://www.adareisenbruch.comhttps://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/roney.
Adar B
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Eisenbruch
Department of Psychology,California State University,Fullerton,Fullerton, CA 92834.alukaszewski@fullerton.eduhttp://www.aaronlukaszewski.com.
Aaron W
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Lukaszewski
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,University of California,Santa Barbara,Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660Eisenbruch@psych.ucsb.edujames.roney@psych.ucsb.eduhttp://www.adareisenbruch.comhttps://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/roney.
James R
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Roney
D001504:Beauty; D015982:Bias; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012747:Sexual Partners