When Love Meets Money: Priming the Possession of Money Influences Mating Strategies.

ABSTRACT: Money is an important factor that influences the development of romantic relationships. The current paper examines how the feeling of having relatively more or less money influences human mating strategies in long-term and short-term mating contexts under the framework of evolutionary psychology. We recruited mainland Chinese college students involved in steady, heterosexual romantic relationships to participate in two experiments. In each study, we experimentally triggered participants' feelings of having relatively more or less money and then examined their thoughts and behaviors related to mating. Results of Study 1 showed that men who were primed to feel that they had relatively more money were less satisfied with their partners' physical attractiveness than those primed to feel that t

SUBMITTER: Li YM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4801008 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature