Jin Zheng, Shiomura Kimihiro, Jiang Lizhu
1 Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou, China.
Psychol Rep. 2015 Feb;116(1):195-206. doi: 10.2466/21.PR0.116k11w6. Epub 2015 Jan 14.
Love, sex, and money are the most direct cues involved in the fundamental forms of mate preferences. These fundamental forms are not mutually exclusive but are interrelated. As a result, humans base their mate choices on multiple cues. In this study, 62 undergraduate women (M age = 20.4 yr., SD = 1.4) from China and Japan served as the participants. They performed a variation of the semantic priming task, in which they were instructed to decide by means of a key-press whether the target was human or non-human. The primes were images that portrayed potent evolutionary factors for mate preference (i.e., love, sex, and money), and the manipulation was based on whether the prime and target matched regarding gender, independent of the target decision task (human vs non-human). Participants gave faster responses to male targets than to female targets under priming. The results generally supported the evolutionary premises that assume mate preference is determined by fundamental forms of providing emotional (love), material (money), and fertility support (sex). The money priming effect was stronger in the Chinese women than in the Japanese women, suggesting that social context may influence mate preferences.
爱情、性和金钱是择偶偏好基本形式中涉及的最直接线索。这些基本形式并非相互排斥，而是相互关联的。因此，人类基于多种线索做出配偶选择。在本研究中，62名来自中国和日本的本科女生（平均年龄 = 20.4岁，标准差 = 1.4）作为参与者。她们进行了语义启动任务的变体，在该任务中，她们被指示通过按键来判断目标是人类还是非人类。启动刺激是描绘择偶偏好的有力进化因素（即爱情、性和金钱）的图像，并且操纵基于启动刺激和目标在性别上是否匹配，而与目标决策任务（人类与非人类）无关。在启动刺激下，参与者对男性目标的反应比对女性目标的反应更快。结果总体上支持了进化前提，即择偶偏好由提供情感（爱情）、物质（金钱）和生育支持（性）的基本形式决定。金钱启动效应在中国女性中比在日本女性中更强，这表明社会背景可能会影响择偶偏好。
