Acta Psychologica Sinica


Vol. 37 No. 4 , Pages 561 - 568 , 2005

Verification of Evolutionary Hypothesis on Human Mate Selection Mechanism in Cross-Culture Context (Article written in Chinese)

YUE Guoan, CHEN Hao, & ZHANG Yanyan

Abstract

After analyzing the personal advertisements of 404 Tianjin’s advertisers and 432 Boston’s ones, the findings show: (1) Male advertisers always paid more attention to female appearance and body-figure, and female advertisers think more of male own resources and commitments to the marriages, but Tianjin’s advertisers showed the traits of mate selection above more strongly; (2) As they got older, male advertisers preferred progressively younger partner than themselves, whereas female advertisers exhibited a more stable pattern of preference; (3) Boston advertisers’ choice range for potential partners’ age was larger than Tianjin’s; (4) Tianjin’s advertisers emphasized committed individual characteristic, whereas Boston’s advertisers regarded the ones concerning spiritual communication and life-enjoyment. It was proposed that evolutionary psychological hypothesis was verified concerning the differences between male and female relatively successfully, but explained cultural difference between Sino-America poorly.

Keywords: personal advertisements; mate selection criteria; evolutionary psychology; social learning theory

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