A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference matching
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Eastwick, Paul W., Sparks, Jehan, Finkel, Eli J., Meza, Eva M., Adamkovic, Matúš, Adu, Peter, Ai, Ting, Akintola, Aderonke A., Al-Shawaf, Laith, Apriliawati, D., Arriaga, Patrícia, Aubert-Teillaud, Benjamin, Banik, Gabriel, Barzykowski, Krystian, Batres, Carlota, Baucom, Katherine J., Beaulieu, Elizabeth Z., Behnke, Maciej, Butcher, Natalie, ..., Coles, Nicholas A.. 2024. "A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference matching." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000524
| Article Title | A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference matching |
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| ERA Journal ID | 6448 |
| Article Category | Article |
| Authors | Eastwick, Paul W., Sparks, Jehan, Finkel, Eli J., Meza, Eva M., Adamkovic, Matúš, Adu, Peter, Ai, Ting, Akintola, Aderonke A., Al-Shawaf, Laith, Apriliawati, D., Arriaga, Patrícia, Aubert-Teillaud, Benjamin, Banik, Gabriel, Barzykowski, Krystian, Batres, Carlota, Baucom, Katherine J., Beaulieu, Elizabeth Z., Behnke, Maciej, Butcher, Natalie, Charles, Deborah Y., Chen, Jane Minyan, Cheon, Jeong Eun, Chittham, Phakkanun, Chwiłkowska, Patrycja, Cong, Chin Wen, Copping, Lee T., Corral-Frias, Nadia S., Ćubela Adorić, Vera, Dizon, Mikaela, Du, Hongfei, Ehinmowo, Michael I., Escribano, Daniela A., Espinosa, Natalia M., Expósito, Francisca, Feldman, Gilad, Freitag, Raquel, Frias Armenta, Martha, Gallyamova, Albina, Gillath, Omri, Gjoneska, Biljana, Gkinopoulos, Theofilos, Grafe, Franca, Grigoryev, Dmitry, Groyecka-Bernard, Agata, Gunaydin, Gul, Ilustrisimo, Ruby, Impett, Emily, Kačmár, Pavol, Kim, Young-Hoon, Kocur, Mirosław, Kowal, Marta, Krishna, Maatangi, Labor, Paul Danielle, Lu, Jackson G., Lucas, Marc Y., Małecki, Wojciech P., Malinakova, Klara, Meißner, Sofia, Meier, Zdeněk, Misiak, Michal, Muise, Amy, Novak, Lukas, O, Jiaqing, Ozdogru,Asil A., Park, Haeyoung Gideon, Paruzel, Mariola, Ristovski, Zoran, Püski, Marcell, Ribeiro, Gianni, Roberts, S. Craig, Röer, Jan P., Ropovik, Ivan, Ross, Robert M., Sakman, Ezgi, Salvador, Cristina E., Selcuk, Emre, Skakoon-Sparling, Shayna, Sorokowska, Agnieszka, Sorokowski, Piotr, Spasovski, Ognen, Stanton, Sarah C. E., Stewart, Suzanne L. K., Swami, Viren, Szaszi, Barnabas, Takashima, Kaito, Tavel, Peter, Tejada, Julian, Tu, Eric, Tuominen, Jarno, Vaidis, David, Vally, Zahir, Vaughn, Leigh Ann, Villanueva-Moya, Laura, Wisnuwardhani, Dian, Yamada, Yuki, Yonemitsu, Fumiya, Žídková, Radka, Živná, Kristýna and Coles, Nicholas A. |
| Journal Title | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association |
| Place of Publication | United States |
| ISSN | 0022-3514 |
| 1939-1315 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000524 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpspp0000524 |
| Abstract | 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 β = .19 and an effect of β = .11 when included alongside a normative preference-matching metric. Specific traits in the “level metric” (interaction) tests revealed very small (average β = .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. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Keywords | matching hypothesis ; attraction; close relationships; human mating; ideals |
| Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520505. Social psychology |
| Public Notes | © American Psychological Association, 2024. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. The final article is available, upon publication, at: https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000524 |
| Byline Affiliations | University of California Davis, United States |
| University of California Los Angeles, United States | |
| Northwestern University, United States | |
| Kellogg School of Management, United States | |
| Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia | |
| Charles University, Czech Republic | |
| University of Jyvaskyla, Finland | |
| Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand | |
| University of Kansas, United States | |
| Redeemer’s University, Nigeria | |
| University of Colorado Colorado Springs, United States | |
| Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), France | |
| UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Indonesia | |
| University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal | |
| Paris City University, Francde | |
| University of Presov, Slovakia | |
| Jagiellonian University, Poland | |
| Franklin and Marshall College, United States | |
| University of Utah, United States | |
| Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland | |
| Teesside University, United Kingdom | |
| Christ University, India | |
| Wellesley College, United States | |
| Yonsei University, Korea | |
| Chulalongkorn University, Thailand | |
| Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, Malaysia | |
| University of Sonora, Mexico | |
| University of Zadar, Croatia | |
| University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom | |
| Beijing Normal University, China | |
| University of Ibadan, Nigeria | |
| Duke University, United States | |
| University of Granada, Spain | |
| University of Hong Kong, China | |
| Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil | |
| National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia | |
| Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, North Macedoni | |
| Witten/Herdecke University, Germany | |
| University of Wroclaw, Poland | |
| Sabanci University, Turkiye | |
| University of San Carlos, Philippines | |
| University of Toronto, Canada | |
| Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Kosice, Slovakia | |
| Independent Researcher, India | |
| University of the Philippines, Philippines | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States | |
| Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic | |
| University of Oxford, United Kingdom | |
| York University, Canada | |
| Singapore Institute of Technology | |
| Marmara University, Turkey | |
| Uskudar University, Turkey | |
| University of Belgrade, Serbia | |
| Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), Hungary | |
| School of Law and Justice | |
| University of Queensland | |
| University of Stirling, United Kingdom | |
| Macquarie University | |
| Bilkent University, Turkiye | |
| Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada | |
| Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia | |
| University of Chester, United Kingdom | |
| Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom | |
| Kyushu University, Japan | |
| University of Turku, Finland | |
| United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates | |
| Ithaca College, United States | |
| University of Indonesia, Indonesia | |
| Chuo University, Japan | |
| Stanford University, United States |
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