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- Title
The Big, the Rich, and the Powerful: Physical, Financial, and Social Dimensions of Dominance in Mating and Attraction.
- Authors
Bryan, Angela D.; Webster, Gregory D.; Mahaffey, Amanda L.
- Abstract
Dominance is a key feature on which romantic partners are evaluated, yet there is no clear consensus on its definition. In Study 1 (N = 305), the authors developed scales to measure three putatively distinct dimensions of dominance: social, financial, and physical. In Study 2 (N = 308), the authors used their scales in a mate-selection paradigm and found that women perceived physical dominance to be related to both attractiveness and social dominance. For both sexes, attractiveness predicted desirability for a one-night stand, whereas attractiveness and agreeableness were predictors of desirability for a serious relationship. In Study 3 (N = 124), the authors surveyed romantic partners in monogamous relationships and found that although aspects of a partner’s dominance—financial for women and social for men—played a bivariate role in relationship satisfaction, agreeableness was the strongest predictor of current and future relationship satisfaction and the only significant predictor of relationship dissolution.
- Subjects
EVOLUTIONARY psychology; SOCIAL dominance; MAN-woman relationships -- Psychological aspects; INTERPERSONAL attraction; SEXUAL attraction
- Publication
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 2011, Vol 37, Issue 3, p365
- ISSN
0146-1672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0146167210395604