A Worldwide Test of the Predictive Validity of Ideal Partner Preference Matching
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F25%3A73634272" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/25:73634272 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12622239/" target="_blank" >https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12622239/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000524" target="_blank" >10.1037/pspp0000524</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A Worldwide Test of the Predictive Validity of Ideal Partner Preference Matching
Original language description
Ideal partner preferences (i.e., ratings of the desirability of attributes like attractiveness or intelligence) are the source of numerous foundational findings in the interdisciplinary literature on human mating. Recently, research on the predictive validity of ideal partner preference matching (i.e., Do people positively evaluate partners who match vs. mismatch their ideals?) has become mired in several problems. First, articles exhibit discrepant analytic and reporting practices. Second, different findings emerge across laboratories worldwide, perhaps because they sample different relationship contexts and/or populations. This registered report-partnered with the Psychological Science Accelerator-uses a highly powered design (N = 10,358) across 43 countries and 22 languages to estimate preference-matching effect sizes. The most rigorous tests revealed significant preference-matching effects in the whole sample and for partnered and single participants separately. The "corrected pattern metric" that collapses across 35 traits revealed a zero-order effect of beta = .19 and an effect of beta = .11 when included alongside a normative preference-matching metric. Specific traits in the "level metric" (interaction) tests revealed very small (average beta = .04) effects. Effect sizes were similar for partnered participants who reported ideals before entering a relationship, and there was no consistent evidence that individual differences moderated any effects. Comparisons between stated and revealed preferences shed light on gender differences and similarities: For attractiveness, men's and (especially) women's stated preferences underestimated revealed preferences (i.e., they thought attractiveness was less important than it actually was). For earning potential, men's stated preferences underestimated-and women's stated preferences overestimated-revealed preferences. Implications for the literature on human mating are discussed.
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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
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
ISSN
0022-3514
e-ISSN
1939-1315
Volume of the periodical
128
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
123-146
UT code for WoS article
001369793800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85208261406