Homogamy preferences for cognitive sex-typicality in women

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dc.contributor.authorVarella, Marco Antonio Correa
dc.contributor.authorValentová, Jaroslava
dc.contributor.authorMartins, Raul Aragao [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorPereira, Kamila Janaina
dc.contributor.authorCaramaschi, Sandro
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-27T11:56:08Z
dc.date.available2015-04-27T11:56:08Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractHomogamy has been suggested as crucial for human mate preferences and mate choice. People are attracted to and choose romantic partners that are similar to them in socio-demographic, physical, and psychological traits. However, only a few studies have shown homogamy in preferences for evolved sex-typical traits. Here, we have investigated male and female preferences for the level of cognitive masculinity-femininity (MF). We tested whether self-reported MF positively correlates with preferences for MF. One hundred men and one hundred women from Brazil filled in questionnaires on their own level of cognitive MF and preferred level of cognitive MF in their ideal partner. Half of the respondents were asked to indicate their preferences for long-term, and the other half for short-term relationships. We found a positive correlation between self-ascribed and preferred level of cognitive MF in women (P = 0.002), but no significant correlation in men (P = 0.309). There was no significant effect of the temporal context of the relationship, but there was a positive correlation between self-ascribed and preferred level of cognitive MF only in women answering about long-term partner. By subtracting the preferred from the selfascribed level of cognitive MF, we created a self-similarity index. We found that women desire potential mates more self-similar and more masculine than men (P < 0.001) and that in men there is greater variation in the self-similarity index than in women. Our results thus add to previous evidence on the role of homogamy in human mating, by showing preferences for self-similarity also in cognitive MF for women, especially for long-term partner preferences. Future studies should cross-culturally test whether the higher self-similar preference found in women is universal.en
dc.description.affiliationUniversidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Departamento de Educação, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Rua Cristovão Colombo 2265, Jardim Nazareth, CEP 15054-000, SP, Brasil
dc.description.affiliationUnespUniversidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Departamento de Educação, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Rua Cristovão Colombo 2265, Jardim Nazareth, CEP 15054-000, SP, Brasil
dc.format.extent71-81
dc.identifierhttp://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/article.php?ID=1422
dc.identifier.citationAnthropologie: International Journal of the Science of Ma, v. 50, n. 1, p. 71-81, 2012.
dc.identifier.issn0323-1119
dc.identifier.lattes8498347239701559
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/122908
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAnthropologie: International Journal of the Science of Ma
dc.relation.ispartofsjr0,378
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dc.sourceCurrículo Lattes
dc.subjectHomogamyen
dc.subjectSex differencesen
dc.subjectMasculinity-femininityen
dc.subjectCognitive abilitiesen
dc.subjectEvolutionary psychologyen
dc.titleHomogamy preferences for cognitive sex-typicality in womenen
dc.typeArtigo
unesp.author.lattes8498347239701559
unesp.author.orcid0000-0001-6495-731X[3]
unesp.campusUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas, São José do Rio Pretopt
unesp.departmentEducaçãopt

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