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Ehlebracht, Daniel, Stavrova, Olga ORCID: 0000-0002-6079-4151, Fetchenhauer, Detlef and Farrelly, Daniel (2018). The synergistic effect of prosociality and physical attractiveness on mate desirability. Br. J. Psychol., 109 (3). S. 517 - 538. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 2044-8295

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Abstract

Mate selection requires a prioritization and joint evaluation of different traits present or absent in potential mates. Herein, we focus on two such traits - physical attractiveness and prosociality - and examine how they jointly shape impressions of overall desirability. We report on two related experiments which make use of an innovative methodology combining large samples of raters and target persons (i.e., stimuli) and information on targets' behaviour in economic games representing altruistic behaviour (Experiment 1) and trustworthiness (Experiment 2), two important facets of prosociality. In accordance with predictions derived from a cognitive perspective on mate choice and sexual strategies theory, the results show that the impact of being prosocial on an individual's overall desirability was increased further by them also being physically attractive, but only in long-term mating contexts. Furthermore, we show that men's mate preferences for certain prosocial traits (i.e., trustworthiness) were more context-dependent than women's due to differential evolutionary pressures for ancestral men and women.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Ehlebracht, Daniel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Stavrova, Olga UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6079-4151 UNSPECIFIED Fetchenhauer, Detlef UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Farrelly, Daniel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-179146
DOI:	10.1111/bjop.12285
Journal or Publication Title:	Br. J. Psychol.
Volume:	109
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 517 - 538
Date:	2018
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	2044-8295
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SEX-DIFFERENCES; LONG-TERM; EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY; FACIAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PREFERENCES; SELECTION; ALTRUISM; TRUST; RECIPROCITY; GENEROSITY Multiple languages Psychology, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/17914