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Daring to Be Darling: Attractiveness of Risk Takers as Partners in Long- and Short-Term Sexual Relationships

Lookup NU author(s): Karolina Sylwester

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Abstract

In an attempt to explain gender differences in risk taking from an evolutionary perspective, this study examined the attractiveness of risk taking in potential mates. Questionnaire data from a sample of 352 primarily undergraduate students at Liverpool University, U.K., provided participants' ratings of physical, social and financial risk-taking and risk-avoiding profiles in terms of attractiveness for long- and short-term relationships. As well as showing a considerable variation in the ratings of different types of risk, we found that the relationship type affected male and female preferences in a similar fashion. Both genders rated risk avoiders as more attractive than risk takers in the context of long-term relationships. In contrast, for short-term relationships men and women preferred risk takers over risk avoiders. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

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Author(s): Sylwester K, Pawłowski B

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Sex Roles

Year: 2011

Volume: 64

Issue: 9-10

Pages: 695-706

Print publication date: 01/05/2010

ISSN (print): 0360-0025

ISSN (electronic): 1573-2762

Publisher: Springer

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-010-9790-6

DOI: 10.1007/s11199-010-9790-6

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