Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2012 Dec;38(12):1579-93. doi: 10.1177/0146167212456300. Epub 2012 Sep 5.
People differ regarding their "Big Three" mate preferences of attractiveness, status, and interpersonal warmth. We explain these differences by linking them to the "Big Two" personality dimensions of agency/competence and communion/warmth. The similarity-attracts hypothesis predicts that people high in agency prefer attractiveness and status in mates, whereas those high in communion prefer warmth. However, these effects may be moderated by agentics' tendency to contrast from ambient culture, and communals' tendency to assimilate to ambient culture. Attending to such agentic-cultural-contrast and communal-cultural-assimilation crucially qualifies the similarity-attracts hypothesis. Data from 187,957 online-daters across 11 countries supported this model for each of the Big Three. For example, agentics-more so than communals-preferred attractiveness, but this similarity-attracts effect virtually vanished in attractiveness-valuing countries. This research may reconcile inconsistencies in the literature while utilizing nonhypothetical and consequential mate preference reports that, for the first time, were directly linked to mate choice.
人们在吸引力、地位和人际温暖这三个主要伴侣偏好上存在差异。我们通过将这些差异与“大两”人格维度——能动性/能力和共融/温暖联系起来，解释了这些差异。相似吸引假说预测，高能动性的人更喜欢伴侣的吸引力和地位，而高共融性的人则更喜欢温暖。然而，这些效应可能受到能动性倾向于与环境文化形成对比，以及共融性倾向于同化环境文化的影响。关注这种能动性文化对比和共融文化同化对于相似吸引假说至关重要。来自 11 个国家的 187957 名在线约会者的数据支持了这一假设，适用于三大主要伴侣偏好中的每一个。例如，能动性比共融性更能预测吸引力，但这种相似吸引效应在重视吸引力的国家几乎消失了。这项研究可能会调和文献中的不一致之处，同时利用非假设性和后果性的伴侣偏好报告，这些报告首次直接与伴侣选择相关联。
