Sex Differences in Sexual Attraction for Aesthetics, Resources and Personality Across Age
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Given that sexual attraction is a key driver of human mate choice and reproduction, we descriptively assess relative sex differences in the level of attraction individuals expect in the aesthetic, resource, and personality characteristics of potential mates. As a novelty we explore how male and female sexual attractiveness preference changes across age, using a dataset comprising online, cross-sectional survey data for over 7,000 respondents across a broad age distribution of individuals between 18 and 65 years.
Geographical area of data collection
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Oceania
Publications
Whyte, Stephen, Brooks, Robert, Chan, Ben, & Torgler, Benno (2019) Do certain personality traits provide a mating market competitive advantage? Sex, offspring and the big 5. Personality and Individual Differences, 139, pp. 158-169.
https://eprints.qut.edu.au/123082/
Whyte, Stephen, Brooks, Robert, & Torgler, Benno (2018) Man, woman, 'other': Factors associated with nonbinary gender identification. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47(8), pp. 2397-2406.
https://eprints.qut.edu.au/123081/
Whyte, Stephen, Brooks, Robert C., Chan, Ho Fai, & Torgler, Benno (2021) Sex differences in sexual attraction for aesthetics, resources and personality across age. PLoS ONE, 16(5), Article number: e0250151.
https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212464/
Whyte, Stephen, Brooks, Robert C., & Torgler, Benno (2019) Sexual economic theory and the human mating market. Applied Economics, 51(57), pp. 6100-6112.
https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207842/
Blake, K., Godwin, M., & Whyte, S. (2020). “I sexually identify as an Attack Helicopter”: Incels, trolls, and non-binary gender politics online . First Monday, 25(9).
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/10601
Research areas
Econometrics
Mate choice
Behavioural
economics
Cite this collection
Chan, H. F., Whyte, S., Torgler, B., & Brooks, R. (2021, June 28). Sex Differences in Sexual Attraction for Aesthetics, Resources and Personality Across Age.
https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DSJ9W
Whyte, Stephen; (2022): Sex Differences in Sexual Attraction for Aesthetics, Resources and Personality Across Age. Queensland University of Technology. (Dataset) https://osf.io/dsj9w/
Related information
Supplementary information for the paper 'Sex differences in sexual attraction for aesthetics, resources and personality across age' - Whyte, Stephen; Brooks, Robert C.; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno (2021): S1 Appendix -. PLOS ONE. Journal contribution.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250151.s001
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Data file types
Survey data in .dta file and stata .do
Licence
Copyright
© Queensland University of Technology, 2022.
Dates of data collection
From 2016-01-01 to 2016-12-17
Connections
Has chief investigator
Contacts
Other
Date record created:
2021-12-17T13:51:21
Date record modified:
2023-01-20T10:26:12
Record status:
Published - Open Access