Assortative mate preferences for height across short-term and long-term relationship contexts in a cross-cultural sample.

ABSTRACT: Height preferences reflecting positive assortative mating for height-wherein an individual's own height positively predicts the preferred height of their mate-have been observed in several distinct human populations and are thought to increase reproductive fitness. However, the extent to which assortative preferences for height differ strategically for short-term versus long-term relationship partners, as they do for numerous other indices of mate quality, remains unclear. We explore this possibility in a large representative sample of over 500 men and women aged 15-77 from Canada, Cuba, Norway and the United States. Participants' own heights were measured, and they indicated their height preferences for a long-term and short-term mate using graphic stimuli containing metric indices. Repli

SUBMITTER: Pisanski K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9454610 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature