Burke Darren, Nolan Caroline, Hayward William Gordon, Russell Robert, Sulikowski Danielle
School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, Australia.
Evol Psychol. 2013 Aug 15;11(4):855-72. doi: 10.1177/147470491301100410.
Even in multicultural nations interracial relationships and marriages are quite rare, one reflection of assortative mating. A relatively unexplored factor that could explain part of this effect is that people may find members of their own racial group more attractive than members of other groups. We tested whether there is an own-race preference in attractiveness judgments, and also examined the effect of familiarity by comparing the attractiveness ratings given by participants of different ancestral and geographic origins to faces of European, East Asian and African origin. We did not find a strong own-race bias in attractiveness judgments, but neither were the data consistent with familiarity, suggesting an important role for other factors determining the patterns of assortative mating observed.
即使在多元文化国家，跨种族关系和婚姻也相当罕见，这是选型交配的一种体现。一个相对未被充分探索的因素或许可以解释这种现象的部分原因，即人们可能会觉得自己种族群体的成员比其他群体的成员更具吸引力。我们测试了在吸引力判断中是否存在对自己种族的偏好，并且通过比较不同祖籍和地理来源的参与者对欧洲、东亚和非洲裔面孔的吸引力评分，研究了熟悉度的影响。我们在吸引力判断中未发现强烈的自己种族偏好，但数据也与熟悉度不符，这表明其他因素在决定观察到的选型交配模式中发挥着重要作用。
