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Height and Body Mass on the Mating Market: Associations With Number of Sex Partners and Extra-Pair Sex Among Heterosexual Men and Women Aged 18–65

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People with traits that are attractive on the mating market are better able to pursue their preferred mating strategy. Men who are brelatively tall may be preferred by women because taller height is a cue to dominance, social status, access to resources, and heritable fitness, leading them to have more mating opportunities and sex partners. We examined height, education, age, ethnicity, and body mass index (BMI) as predictors of sexual history among heterosexual men and women (N ¼ 60,058). The linear and curvilinear associations between self-reported height and sex partner number were small for men when controlling for education, BMI, and ethnicity (linear b ¼ .05; curvilinear b¼.03). The mean and median number of sex partners for men of different heights were: very short (9.4; 5), short (11.0; 7), average (11.7; 7), tall (12.0; 7), very tall (12.1; 7), and extremely tall (12.3; 7). Men who
were ‘‘overweight’’ reported a higher mean and median number of sex partners than men with other body masses. The results for men suggested limited variation in reported sex partner number across most of the height continuum, but that very short men report fewer partners than other men.

Keywords
sex partner number, mate preferences, attraction, height, body mass, evolution, mating market.

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Judul Seri

Evolutionary Psychology

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Penerbit

U.S.A : SAGE., 2015

Deskripsi Fisik

Evolutionary Psychology 2015

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English

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DOI: 10.1177/1474704

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Tipe Media

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Edisi

2015: 1–14

Subjek

PSIKOLOGI

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