Quantity may determine quality when choosing romantic partners

Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 12:43 in Psychology & Sociology

The context in which humans meet potential mates has a hidden influence on who they decide to pursue. In particular, when people have a large number of potential dating partners to select among, they respond by paying attention to different types of characteristics - discarding attributes such as education, smoking status, and occupation in favor of physical characteristics such as height and weight.

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