The study found people who expressed an extremely high preference for a particular trait were likely to care a great deal about multiple traits. Though the parental investment theory is widely cited in evolutionary psychology, it has been criticised as contributing to “persistent sexism” by certain researchers. “They can afford to mate with many females, and to also partner with younger females who have a greater reproductive potential over their lifespan.” “Men can have large amounts of children, because of the fact that they don’t have to get pregnant and breastfeed,” Alba said. It contends that women are choosier when picking partners because they invest more reproductively in the survival of offspring.īeatrice Alba at Deakin University, who was not involved in the research, said though many gender differences are the effect of socialisation, some are driven by evolutionary demands.
Whyte suggested the differences in preferences between men and women could be attributed to a theory in evolutionary psychology known as parental investment. “Maybe there’s something to be said about the wisdom of age.” “ care less about aesthetics and more about personality,” he said. The study’s lead author, Stephen Whyte at the Queensland University of Technology, said the survey showed the traits people were attracted to in a partner complemented their age-related lifestyle choices. For adults 60 and older, men rated personality factors more highly than women did.īoth sexes placed greater importance on openness and trust with increasing age. Younger women aged no more than 25 ranked personality factors as much more important than men of a similar age, but the gap narrowed for adults over 30. Women placed significantly greater weight on age, education, intelligence, income, trust and emotional connection. Men aged 18 to 25 assigned higher priority to attractiveness and physical build, but as men got older these factors became less important.
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