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| Language | English |
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| Pages | 877-883 |
| Journal | Personality and Individual Differences |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2013 |
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Women want taller men more than men want shorter women. / Stulp, G.; Buunk, A.P.; Pollet, T.V.
In: Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 54, No. 8, 2013, p. 877-883.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - Women want taller men more than men want shorter women
AU - Stulp,G.
AU - Buunk,A.P.
AU - Pollet,T.V.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Physical characteristics, such as height, play an important role in human mate preferences. Satisfaction with one's own height and one's partner height seem likely to be related to these preferences. Using a student sample (N= 650), we show that women are not only more selective, but also more consistent, than men, in their partner height preferences. Women prefer, on average, a larger height difference between themselves and their partner (i.e. males being much taller than themselves) than men do. This effect is even more pronounced when examining satisfaction with actual partner height: women are most satisfied when their partner was 21. cm taller, whereas men are most satisfied when they were 8. cm taller than their partner. Next, using data from our sample and that of a previously published study (N= 52,677), we show that for men, height is more important to the expression of satisfaction with one's own height than it is for women. Furthermore, slightly above average height women and tall men are most satisfied with their heights. We conclude that satisfaction with one's own height is at least partly a consequence of the height preference of the opposite sex and satisfaction with one's partner height. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
AB - Physical characteristics, such as height, play an important role in human mate preferences. Satisfaction with one's own height and one's partner height seem likely to be related to these preferences. Using a student sample (N= 650), we show that women are not only more selective, but also more consistent, than men, in their partner height preferences. Women prefer, on average, a larger height difference between themselves and their partner (i.e. males being much taller than themselves) than men do. This effect is even more pronounced when examining satisfaction with actual partner height: women are most satisfied when their partner was 21. cm taller, whereas men are most satisfied when they were 8. cm taller than their partner. Next, using data from our sample and that of a previously published study (N= 52,677), we show that for men, height is more important to the expression of satisfaction with one's own height than it is for women. Furthermore, slightly above average height women and tall men are most satisfied with their heights. We conclude that satisfaction with one's own height is at least partly a consequence of the height preference of the opposite sex and satisfaction with one's partner height. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2012.12.019
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2012.12.019
M3 - Article
VL - 54
SP - 877
EP - 883
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
T2 - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
SN - 0191-8869
IS - 8
ER -