. 2021 Jul 28;288(1955):20211115.

doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1115. Epub 2021 Jul 21.

Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios

Kathryn V Walter¹, Daniel Conroy-Beam¹, David M Buss², Kelly Asao³, Agnieszka Sorokowska^{4

5}, Piotr Sorokowski⁴, Toivo Aavik⁶, Grace Akello⁷, Mohammad Madallh Alhabahba⁸, Charlotte Alm⁹, Naumana Amjad¹⁰, Afifa Anjum¹¹, Chiemezie S Atama¹², Derya Atamtürk Duyar¹³, Richard Ayebare¹⁴, Carlota Batres¹⁵, Mons Bendixen¹⁶, Aicha Bensafia¹⁷, Boris Bizumic¹⁸, Mahmoud Boussena¹⁹, Marina Butovskaya^{20

21}, Seda Can²², Katarzyna Cantarero²³, Antonin Carrier²⁴, Hakan Cetinkaya²⁵, Ilona Croy²⁶, Rosa María Cueto²⁷, Marcin Czub³, Daria Dronova²⁰, Seda Dural²², Izzet Duyar¹³, Berna Ertugrul¹³, Agustín Espinosa²⁷, Ignacio Estevan²⁸, Carla Sofia Esteves²⁹, Luxi Fang³⁰, Tomasz Frackowiak⁴, Jorge Contreras Garduño³¹, Karina Ugalde González³², Farida Guemaz³³, Petra Gyuris³⁴, Mária Halamová³⁵, Iskra Herak³⁶, Marina Horvat³⁷, Ivana Hromatko³⁸, Chin-Ming Hui³¹, Jas Laile Jaafar³⁹, Feng Jiang⁴⁰, Konstantinos Kafetsios⁴¹, Tina Kavčič⁴², Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair¹⁶, Nicolas Kervyn³⁶, Truong Thi Khanh Ha⁴³, Imran Ahmed Khilji⁴⁴, Nils C Köbis⁴⁵, Hoang Moc Lan⁴³, András Láng³⁴, Georgina R Lennard¹⁸, Ernesto León²⁷, Torun Lindholm⁹, Trinh Thi Linh⁴³, Giulia Lopez⁴⁶, Nguyen Van Luot⁴³, Alvaro Mailhos²⁸, Zoi Manesi⁴⁷, Rocio Martinez⁴⁸, Sarah L McKerchar¹⁸, Norbert Meskó³⁴, Girishwar Misra⁴⁹, Conal Monaghan¹⁸, Emanuel C Mora⁵⁰, Alba Moya-Garófano⁴⁴, Bojan Musil³⁷, Jean Carlos Natividade⁵¹, Agnieszka Niemczyk⁴, George Nizharadze⁵², Elisabeth Oberzaucher⁵³, Anna Oleszkiewicz^{4

5}, Mohd Sofian Omar-Fauzee⁵⁴, Ike E Onyishi⁵⁵, Baris Özener¹³, Ariela Francesca Pagani⁴⁶, Vilmante Pakalniskiene⁵⁶, Miriam Parise⁴⁶, Farid Pazhoohi⁵⁷, Annette Pisanski⁵⁰, Katarzyna Pisanski^{3

58

59}, Edna Ponciano^{60

61}, Camelia Popa⁶², Pavol Prokop^{63

64}, Muhammad Rizwan⁶⁵, Mario Sainz⁶⁶, Svjetlana Salkičević³⁸, Ruta Sargautyte⁵⁶, Ivan Sarmány-Schuller⁶⁷, Susanne Schmehl⁵³, Shivantika Sharad⁶⁸, Razi Sultan Siddiqui⁶⁹, Franco Simonetti⁷⁰, Stanislava Yordanova Stoyanova⁷¹, Meri Tadinac³⁸, Marco Antonio Correa Varella⁷², Christin-Melanie Vauclair⁷³, Luis Diego Vega³³, Dwi Ajeng Widarini⁷⁴, Gyesook Yoo⁷⁵, Marta Marta Zaťková³³, Maja Zupančič⁷⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
² Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT 84105, USA.
⁴ Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw 50137, Poland.
⁵ Smell and Taste Clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, TU Dresden, Dresden 01307, Germany.
⁶ Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu 50090, Estonia.
⁷ Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu 166, Uganda.
⁸ English Language Department, Middle East University, Amman 11181, Jordan.
⁹ Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm 10691, Sweden.
¹⁰ Department of Applied Psychology, NUR International University, Lahore, Pakistan.
¹¹ Institute of Applied Psychology, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54590, Pakistan.
¹² Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and.
¹³ Deparment of Anthropology, Istanbul University, Istanbul 34452, Turkey.
¹⁴ North Star Alliance, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁵ Department of Psychology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster 17603, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
¹⁷ Laboratory Education-Formation-Travail (EFORT), Department of Sociology, and.
¹⁸ Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia.
¹⁹ Laboratory EFORT, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Algiers 2, Algiers 16000, Algeria.
²⁰ Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia.
²¹ Center for Social Anthropology, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow 119991, Russia.
²² Department of Psychology, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir 35300, Turkey.
²³ Social Behavior Research Center, Faculty in Wroclaw, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw 53238, Poland.
²⁴ Psychology Faculty (Center for the Study of Social Behavior), and.
²⁵ Department of Psychology, Ankara University, Ankara 6560, Turkey.
²⁶ Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden 1069, Germany.
²⁷ Grupo de Psicología Política y Social (GPPS), Departamento de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima 15088, Perú.
²⁸ Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República, Motevideo 11200, Uruguay.
²⁹ Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Católica Lisbon Research Unit in Business and Economics, Portugal.
³⁰ Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
³¹ Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Unidad Morelia UNAM, Morelia 58190, Mexico.
³² Psychology Department, Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, San José 11501, Costa Rica.
³³ Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Sétif2, Sétif 16000, Algeria.
³⁴ Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Pécs 7624, Hungary.
³⁵ Faculty of Social Sciences and Health Care, Department of Psychological Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra 94974, Slovakia.
³⁶ Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organisations (LOURiM), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium.
³⁷ Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, University of Maribor, Maribor 2000, Slovenia.
³⁸ Department of Psychology, Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb 10000, Croatia.
³⁹ Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia.
⁴⁰ Organization and Human Resource Management, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 102202, People's Republic of China.
⁴¹ School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Katedra Psychologie, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.
⁴² Faculty of Health Sciences, and.
⁴³ Department of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam.
⁴⁴ Department of Psychology, Islamabad Model College for Boys, F-10/4, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
⁴⁵ Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making, Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1081, The Netherlands.
⁴⁶ Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan 20123, Italy.
⁴⁷ Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1081, The Netherlands.
⁴⁸ Department of Social Psychology, University of Granada, Grenada 18010, Spain.
⁴⁹ Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110021, India.
⁵⁰ Department of Animal and Human Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba.
⁵¹ Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 22451-000, Brazil.
⁵² Department of Social Sciences, Free University of Tbilisi, Tbilisi 2, Georgia.
⁵³ Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria.
⁵⁴ School of Education, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok 6010, Malaysia.
⁵⁵ Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka 410002, Nigeria.
⁵⁶ Institute of Psychology, Vilnius University, Vilnius 1513, Lithuania.
⁵⁷ Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z4.
⁵⁸ Equipe de Neuro-Ethologie Sensorielle (ENES), Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France.
⁵⁹ CNRS National Center for Scientific Research, Dynamic Language Laboratory, University Lyon 2, Lyon, France.
⁶⁰ Institute of Psychology, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-901, Brazil.
⁶¹ Center of Social Studies, University of Coimbra, 3004 Coimba, Portugal.
⁶² Department of Psychology-Institute of Philosophy and Psychology "C. Rădulescu Motru" of Romanian Academy, UNATC Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
⁶³ Department of Environmental Ecology and Landscape Management, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava 84215, Slovakia.
⁶⁴ Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava 84506, Slovakia.
⁶⁵ Department of Psychology, University of Haripur, 22620, Pakistan.
⁶⁶ Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 8331150, Chile.
⁶⁷ Center for Social and Psychological Sciences, Institute of Experimental Psychology SAS, Bratislava, 84104, Slovakia.
⁶⁸ Department of Applied Psychology, Vivekananda College, University of Delhi, Delhi 110095, India.
⁶⁹ Department of Management Sciences, DHA Suffa University, Karachi 75500, Pakistan.
⁷⁰ School of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago 8331150, Chile.
⁷¹ Department of Psychology, South-West University 'Neofit Rilski', Blagoevgrad 2700, Bulgaria.
⁷² Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-030, Brazil.
⁷³ Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIS-IUL, Lisboa 1649-026, Portugal.
⁷⁴ Fakultas Ilmu Komunikasi, Universitas Prof. Dr Moestopo (Beragama), Jakarta 10270, Indonesia.
⁷⁵ Department of Child and Family Studies, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 024-47, Republic of Korea.
⁷⁶ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia.

PMID: 34284630
PMCID: PMC8292757
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1115

Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios

Kathryn V Walter et al. Proc Biol Sci. 2021.

. 2021 Jul 28;288(1955):20211115.

doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1115. Epub 2021 Jul 21.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
² Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT 84105, USA.
⁴ Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw 50137, Poland.
⁵ Smell and Taste Clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, TU Dresden, Dresden 01307, Germany.
⁶ Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu 50090, Estonia.
⁷ Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu 166, Uganda.
⁸ English Language Department, Middle East University, Amman 11181, Jordan.
⁹ Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm 10691, Sweden.
¹⁰ Department of Applied Psychology, NUR International University, Lahore, Pakistan.
¹¹ Institute of Applied Psychology, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54590, Pakistan.
¹² Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and.
¹³ Deparment of Anthropology, Istanbul University, Istanbul 34452, Turkey.
¹⁴ North Star Alliance, Kampala, Uganda.
¹⁵ Department of Psychology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster 17603, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
¹⁷ Laboratory Education-Formation-Travail (EFORT), Department of Sociology, and.
¹⁸ Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia.
¹⁹ Laboratory EFORT, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Algiers 2, Algiers 16000, Algeria.
²⁰ Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia.
²¹ Center for Social Anthropology, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow 119991, Russia.
²² Department of Psychology, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir 35300, Turkey.
²³ Social Behavior Research Center, Faculty in Wroclaw, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw 53238, Poland.
²⁴ Psychology Faculty (Center for the Study of Social Behavior), and.
²⁵ Department of Psychology, Ankara University, Ankara 6560, Turkey.
²⁶ Department of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden 1069, Germany.
²⁷ Grupo de Psicología Política y Social (GPPS), Departamento de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima 15088, Perú.
²⁸ Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de la República, Motevideo 11200, Uruguay.
²⁹ Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Católica Lisbon Research Unit in Business and Economics, Portugal.
³⁰ Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
³¹ Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Unidad Morelia UNAM, Morelia 58190, Mexico.
³² Psychology Department, Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, San José 11501, Costa Rica.
³³ Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Sétif2, Sétif 16000, Algeria.
³⁴ Institute of Psychology, University of Pécs, Pécs 7624, Hungary.
³⁵ Faculty of Social Sciences and Health Care, Department of Psychological Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra 94974, Slovakia.
³⁶ Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organisations (LOURiM), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium.
³⁷ Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology, University of Maribor, Maribor 2000, Slovenia.
³⁸ Department of Psychology, Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb 10000, Croatia.
³⁹ Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia.
⁴⁰ Organization and Human Resource Management, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 102202, People's Republic of China.
⁴¹ School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Katedra Psychologie, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.
⁴² Faculty of Health Sciences, and.
⁴³ Department of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam.
⁴⁴ Department of Psychology, Islamabad Model College for Boys, F-10/4, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
⁴⁵ Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making, Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1081, The Netherlands.
⁴⁶ Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan 20123, Italy.
⁴⁷ Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1081, The Netherlands.
⁴⁸ Department of Social Psychology, University of Granada, Grenada 18010, Spain.
⁴⁹ Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110021, India.
⁵⁰ Department of Animal and Human Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba.
⁵¹ Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 22451-000, Brazil.
⁵² Department of Social Sciences, Free University of Tbilisi, Tbilisi 2, Georgia.
⁵³ Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria.
⁵⁴ School of Education, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok 6010, Malaysia.
⁵⁵ Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka 410002, Nigeria.
⁵⁶ Institute of Psychology, Vilnius University, Vilnius 1513, Lithuania.
⁵⁷ Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z4.
⁵⁸ Equipe de Neuro-Ethologie Sensorielle (ENES), Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France.
⁵⁹ CNRS National Center for Scientific Research, Dynamic Language Laboratory, University Lyon 2, Lyon, France.
⁶⁰ Institute of Psychology, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-901, Brazil.
⁶¹ Center of Social Studies, University of Coimbra, 3004 Coimba, Portugal.
⁶² Department of Psychology-Institute of Philosophy and Psychology "C. Rădulescu Motru" of Romanian Academy, UNATC Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
⁶³ Department of Environmental Ecology and Landscape Management, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava 84215, Slovakia.
⁶⁴ Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava 84506, Slovakia.
⁶⁵ Department of Psychology, University of Haripur, 22620, Pakistan.
⁶⁶ Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 8331150, Chile.
⁶⁷ Center for Social and Psychological Sciences, Institute of Experimental Psychology SAS, Bratislava, 84104, Slovakia.
⁶⁸ Department of Applied Psychology, Vivekananda College, University of Delhi, Delhi 110095, India.
⁶⁹ Department of Management Sciences, DHA Suffa University, Karachi 75500, Pakistan.
⁷⁰ School of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago 8331150, Chile.
⁷¹ Department of Psychology, South-West University 'Neofit Rilski', Blagoevgrad 2700, Bulgaria.
⁷² Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-030, Brazil.
⁷³ Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIS-IUL, Lisboa 1649-026, Portugal.
⁷⁴ Fakultas Ilmu Komunikasi, Universitas Prof. Dr Moestopo (Beragama), Jakarta 10270, Indonesia.
⁷⁵ Department of Child and Family Studies, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 024-47, Republic of Korea.
⁷⁶ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia.

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PMCID: PMC8292757
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1115

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Correction to: 'Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios' (2023) by Walter et al.
Walter KV, Conroy-Beam D, Buss DM, Asao K, Sorokowska A, Sorokowski P, Aavik T, Akello G, Alhabahba MM, Alm C, Amjad N, Anjum A, Atama CS, Duyar DA, Ayebare R, Batres C, Bendixen M, Bensafia A, Bizumic B, Boussena M, Butovskaya M, Can S, Cantarero K, Carrier A, Cetinkaya H, Croy I, Cueto RM, Czub M, Dronova D, Dural S, Duyar I, Ertugrul B, Espinosa A, Estevan I, Esteves CS, Fang L, Frackowiak T, Garduño JC, González KU, Guemaz F, Gyuris P, Halamová M, Herak I, Horvat M, Hromatko I, Hui CM, Jaafar JL, Jiang F, Kafetsios K, Kavčič T, Ottesen Kennair LE, Kervyn N, Khanh Ha TT, Khilji IA, Köbis NC, Lan HM, Láng A, Lennard GR, León E, Lindholm T, Linh TT, Lopez G, Luot NV, Mailhos A, Manesi Z, Martinez R, McKerchar SL, Meskó N, Misra G, Monaghan C, Mora EC, Moya-Garófano A, Musil B, Natividade JC, Niemczyk A, Nizharadze G, Oberzaucher E, Oleszkiewicz A, Omar-Fauzee MS, Onyishi IE, Özener B, Pagani AF, Pakalniskiene V, Parise M, Pazhoohi F, Pisanski A, Pisanski K, Ponciano E, Popa C, Prokop P, Rizwan M, Sainz M, Salkičević S, Sargautyte R, Sarmány-Schuller I, Schmehl S, Sharad S, Siddiqui RS, Simonetti F, Stoyanova SY, Tadinac M, Correa Varella MA, Vauclair CM, Vega LD, Widarini DA, Yoo… See abstract for full author list ➔ Walter KV, et al. Proc Biol Sci. 2023 Jul 26;290(2003):20231513. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1513. Epub 2023 Jul 19. Proc Biol Sci. 2023. PMID: 37440323 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
Correction to: 'Fission-fusion dynamics in sheep: the influence of resource distribution and temporal activity patterns' (2023) by Della Libera et al.
Della Libera K, Strandburg-Peshkin A, Griffith SC, Leu ST. Della Libera K, et al. R Soc Open Sci. 2023 Aug 14;10(8):231083. doi: 10.1098/rsos.231083. eCollection 2023 Aug. R Soc Open Sci. 2023. PMID: 37583616 Free PMC article.

Abstract

A wide range of literature connects sex ratio and mating behaviours in non-human animals. However, research examining sex ratio and human mating is limited in scope. Prior work has examined the relationship between sex ratio and desire for short-term, uncommitted mating as well as outcomes such as marriage and divorce rates. Less empirical attention has been directed towards the relationship between sex ratio and mate preferences, despite the importance of mate preferences in the human mating literature. To address this gap, we examined sex ratio's relationship to the variation in preferences for attractiveness, resources, kindness, intelligence and health in a long-term mate across 45 countries (n = 14 487). We predicted that mate preferences would vary according to relative power of choice on the mating market, with increased power derived from having relatively few competitors and numerous potential mates. We found that each sex tended to report more demanding preferences for attractiveness and resources where the opposite sex was abundant, compared to where the opposite sex was scarce. This pattern dovetails with those found for mating strategies in humans and mate preferences across species, highlighting the importance of sex ratio for understanding variation in human mate preferences.

Keywords: cross-cultural; mate preferences; mating market; sex differences; sex ratio.

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**Figure 1.**
Participant mate preferences across sex ratios. Data are jittered to reduce overplotting. Regression lines, separated by sex, shown with shaded areas indicating 95% confidence intervals. The specific preference (absolute preference for physical attractiveness; relative preference for physical attractiveness; relative preference for good financial prospects) and specific sex ratio (sex ratio ages 15–49; sex ratio ages 15–64; city sex ratio) can be identified in each plot label. Sex ratio is the number of males per 100 females. (Online version in colour.)

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