• DOI:10.1037/a0015300
Corpus ID: 6556232

Using revealed mate preferences to evaluate market force and differential preference explanations for mate selection.

@article{Wood2009UsingRM,
  title={Using revealed mate preferences to evaluate market force and differential preference explanations for mate selection.},
  author={D. Wood and C. Brumbaugh},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={2009},
  volume={96 6},
  pages={
          1226-44
        }
}

• D. Wood, C. Brumbaugh
• Published 2009
• Psychology, Medicine
• Journal of personality and social psychology

In this article the authors illustrate how revealed preferences (i.e., preferences inferred through an individual's differential attraction to multiple targets) can be used to investigate the nature of mate preferences. The authors describe how revealed preferences can be estimated and how the reliability of these estimates can be established. Revealed preference estimates were used to explore the level of consensus in judgments of who is and is not attractive and whether revealed preferences… Expand