The big, the rich, and the powerful: physical, financial, and social dimensions of dominance in mating and attraction |
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Authors: | Bryan Angela D Webster Gregory D Mahaffey Amanda L |
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Affiliation: | University of New Mexico, Department of Psychology, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1161, USA. abryan@unm.edu |
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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. |
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