Meeting minimum mate preference thresholds can be more important than the overall score
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11240/22:10448548
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=33JjKH97jH" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=33JjKH97jH</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111675" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.paid.2022.111675</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Meeting minimum mate preference thresholds can be more important than the overall score
Original language description
Mate choice appears to be driven by a set of mate preferences. It is, however, unclear how preferences for individual characteristics are integrated into actual mate choice decisions. According to the Additive model, the most desirable partner is the one with the highest overall sum of relevant characteristics. In contrast, the Threshold model predicts that only partners who meet a certain threshold value in all characteristics will be considered. We conducted two studies (Pilot: N = 522, and Main Study: N = 1873) to compare the two models using vignettes describing potential partners. Each vignette was predicted to be preferred either by the Additive or by the Threshold model. Overall, participants preferred the vignettes following the Threshold model, except if the violated characteristic had low importance. Our results indicate that in mate choice, decisions are directed by thresholds in preferences but take also into account the overall sum of the relevant characteristics.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Personality and Individual Differences
ISSN
0191-8869
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
195
Issue of the periodical within the volume
September
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
111675
UT code for WoS article
000830162500005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85129260572