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Article: Is there an own-race preference in attractiveness?
Title | Is there an own-race preference in attractiveness? |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Own-race Attractiveness Sexual selection Faces |
Issue Date | 2013 |
Citation | Evolutionary Psychology, 2013, v. 11, n. 4, p. 855-872 How to Cite? |
Abstract | 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. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/244014 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Burke, Darren | - |
dc.contributor.author | Nolan, Caroline | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hayward, William Gordon | - |
dc.contributor.author | Russell, Robert | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sulikowski, Danielle | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-31T02:29:24Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-31T02:29:24Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Evolutionary Psychology, 2013, v. 11, n. 4, p. 855-872 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/244014 | - |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Evolutionary Psychology | - |
dc.subject | Own-race | - |
dc.subject | Attractiveness | - |
dc.subject | Sexual selection | - |
dc.subject | Faces | - |
dc.title | Is there an own-race preference in attractiveness? | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84884573771 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 11 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 855 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 872 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1474-7049 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1474-7049 | - |