ArticleJournal of personality and social psychology2025
A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference matching.
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Paul W EastwickDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Davis.ORCID 0000-0001-8512-8721
Jehan SparksBehavioral Decision Making Group, University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management.ORCID 0000-0002-6997-1783
Eli J FinkelDepartment of Psychology, Northwestern University.ORCID 0000-0002-0213-5318
Eva M MezaDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Davis.
Matúš AdamkovičCentre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences.ORCID 0000-0002-9648-9108
Peter AduWellington Faculty of Health, School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington.
Ting AiDepartment of Social Psychology, University of Kansas.ORCID 0000-0003-1883-7071
Aderonke A AkintolaDepartment of Psychology, Redeemer's University.ORCID 0000-0003-4159-7838
Laith Al-ShawafDepartment of Psychology, University of Colorado.ORCID 0000-0002-8600-0591
Denisa ApriliawatiDepartment of Psychology, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga.ORCID 0000-0002-6452-073X
Patrícia ArriagaDepartment of Social and Organizational Psychology, Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon.ORCID 0000-0001-5766-0489
Benjamin Aubert-TeillaudInstitut de Psychologie, Universite Paris Cite.ORCID 0000-0003-4470-1856
Gabriel BaníkDepartment of Educational Psychology and Psychology of Health, Pavol Jozef Safarik University.ORCID 0000-0002-6601-3619
Krystian BarzykowskiFaculty of Philosophy, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University.ORCID 0000-0003-4016-3966
Carlota BatresDepartment of Psychology, Franklin and Marshall College.ORCID 0000-0002-3833-7667
Katherine J BaucomDepartment of Psychology, University of Utah.ORCID 0000-0002-0011-2526
Elizabeth Z BeaulieuDepartment of Psychology, University of Utah.
Maciej BehnkeDepartment of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Adam Mickiewicz University.ORCID 0000-0002-2455-4556
Natalie ButcherDepartment of Psychology, Teesside University.ORCID 0000-0002-0154-0530
Deborah Y CharlesDepartment of Psychology, Christ University.ORCID 0000-0003-3439-6827
Jane Minyan ChenDepartment of Psychology, Wellesley College.
Jeong Eun CheonDepartment of Psychology, Yonsei University.ORCID 0000-0003-0133-3109
Phakkanun ChitthamFaculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University.ORCID 0000-0002-3037-8915
Patrycja ChwiłkowskaDepartment of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Adam Mickiewicz University.ORCID 0000-0002-5385-1939
Chin Wen CongDepartment of Social Science, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology.ORCID 0000-0003-4592-0727
Lee T CoppingDepartment of Psychology, Teesside University.ORCID 0000-0003-3252-0353
Nadia S Corral-FriasDepartment of Psychology, Universidad de Sonora.ORCID 0000-0002-1934-0043
Vera Ćubela AdorićDepartment of Psychology, University of Zadar.ORCID 0000-0003-4752-4541
Mikaela DizonDepartment of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.ORCID 0009-0007-6933-8754
Hongfei DuInstitute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Normal University.ORCID 0000-0002-9605-8463
Michael I EhinmowoDepartment of Psychology, University of Ibadan.ORCID 0000-0003-2287-7287
Daniela A EscribanoDepartment of Social Psychology, University of Kansas.ORCID 0000-0003-2472-1083
Natalia M EspinosaDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University.ORCID 0000-0001-7854-3708
Francisca ExpósitoDepartament of Social Psychology, University of Granada.ORCID 0000-0001-6157-4292
Gilad FeldmanDepartment of Psychology, University of Hong Kong.ORCID 0000-0003-2812-6599
Raquel FreitagDepartamento de Letras Vernaculas, Universidade Federal de Sergipe.
Martha Frias ArmentaDepartment of Law, Universidad de Sonora.
Albina GallyamovaCenter for Sociocultural Research, HSE University.ORCID 0000-0002-8775-7289
Omri GillathDepartment of Social Psychology, University of Kansas.ORCID 0000-0001-8791-227X
Biljana GjoneskaDevision of Neuroinformatics in Function of Sustainable Development, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts.ORCID 0000-0003-1200-6672
Theofilos GkinopoulosInstitute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow.ORCID 0000-0003-0853-5272
Franca GrafeDepartment of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University.
Dmitry GrigoryevCenter for Sociocultural Research, HSE University.ORCID 0000-0003-4511-7942
Agata Groyecka-BernardInstitute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw.ORCID 0000-0002-1932-4828
Gul GunaydinPsychology Program, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University.ORCID 0000-0003-0490-4528
Ruby IlustrisimoDepartment of Psychology, University of San Carlos.
Emily ImpettDepartment of Psychology, University of Toronto.ORCID 0000-0003-3348-7524
Pavol KačmárDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice.ORCID 0000-0003-0076-1945
Young-Hoon KimDepartment of Psychology, Yonsei University.
Mirosław KocurIDN Being Human, Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw.
Marta KowalIDN Being Human, Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw.ORCID 0000-0001-9050-1471
Maatangi Krishna
Paul Danielle LaborDepartment of Psychology, University of the Philippines.ORCID 0000-0001-9557-2869
Jackson G LuSloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.ORCID 0000-0002-0144-9171
Marc Y LucasDepartment of Anthropology and Psychology, Universidad de Sonora.
Wojciech P MałeckiIDN Being Human, Institute of Polish Studies, University of Wroclaw.
Klara MalinakovaOlomouc University Social Health Institute, Palacky University Olomouc.ORCID 0000-0001-6939-1204
Sofia MeißnerDepartment of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University.
Zdeněk MeierOlomouc University Social Health Institute, Palacky University Olomouc.ORCID 0000-0001-9810-6230
Michal MisiakIDN Being Human, Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw.ORCID 0000-0002-6892-3325
Amy MuiseDepartment of Psychology, York University.
Lukas NovakOlomouc University Social Health Institute, Palacky University Olomouc.ORCID 0000-0002-7582-2098
Jiaqing OHealth and Social Sciences Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology.
Asil A ÖzdoğruDepartment of Psychology, Marmara University.ORCID 0000-0002-4273-9394
Haeyoung Gideon ParkDepartment of Psychology, University of Toronto.
Mariola ParuzelDepartment of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Adam Mickiewicz University.
Zoran PavlovićFaculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade.ORCID 0000-0002-9231-5100
Marcell PüskiInstitute of Psychology, Eotvos Lorand University.
Gianni RibeiroSchool of Psychology, University of Queensland.ORCID 0000-0002-2594-8311
S Craig RobertsIDN Being Human, Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw.ORCID 0000-0002-9641-6101
Jan P RöerDepartment of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University.ORCID 0000-0001-7774-3433
Ivan RopovikInstitute for Research and Development of Education, Faculty of Education, Charles University.ORCID 0000-0001-5222-1233
Robert M RossDepartment of Philosophy, Macquarie University.ORCID 0000-0001-8711-1675
Ezgi SakmanDepartment of Psychology, Bilkent University.ORCID 0000-0002-5974-6566
Cristina E SalvadorDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University.ORCID 0000-0002-6836-2126
Emre SelcukPsychology Program, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University.ORCID 0000-0002-2955-4221
Shayna Skakoon-SparlingDepartment of Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University.ORCID 0000-0002-5021-6593
Agnieszka SorokowskaInstitute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw.
Piotr SorokowskiIDN Being Human, Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw.
Ognen SpasovskiDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
Sarah C E StantonDepartment of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.ORCID 0000-0002-3562-4644
Suzanne L K StewartSchool of Psychology, University of Chester.ORCID 0000-0003-2152-0091
Viren SwamiSchool of Psychology, Sport, and Sensory Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University.ORCID 0000-0002-4866-7950
Barnabas SzasziInstitute of Psychology, Eotvos Lorand University.ORCID 0000-0001-7078-2712
Kaito TakashimaGraduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University.
Peter TavelOlomouc University Social Health Institute, Palacky University Olomouc.ORCID 0000-0001-7072-001X
Julian TejadaDepartamento de Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Sergipe.
Eric TuDepartment of Psychology, York University.
Jarno TuominenDepartment of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku.ORCID 0000-0002-3892-3199
David VaidisDepartment of Psychology, Centre for Learning Leadership and Excellence, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Universite de Toulouse.ORCID 0000-0002-1954-2219
Zahir VallyDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University.
Leigh Ann VaughnDepartment of Psychology, Ithaca College.ORCID 0000-0002-2399-7400
Laura Villanueva-MoyaDepartament of Social Psychology, University of Granada.ORCID 0000-0002-4705-7827
Dian WisnuwardhaniFaculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia.
Yuki YamadaFaculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University.ORCID 0000-0003-1431-568X
Fumiya YonemitsuCollege of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology.
Radka ŽídkováOlomouc University Social Health Institute, Palacky University Olomouc.ORCID 0000-0003-3144-2437
Kristýna ŽivnáOlomouc University Social Health Institute, Palacky University Olomouc.ORCID 0000-0001-5939-6474
Nicholas A ColesCenter for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University.ORCID 0000-0001-8583-5610
Funding
Couple-based lifestyle intervention to prevent type 2 diabetesK23DK115820 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI BAUCOM, KATHERINE JANE WILLIAMS · 2018 to 2022
$1.2MAdam Mickiewicz University; Department of Psychology and Cognitive ScienceAssociation Nationale de la Recherche et de la TechnologieAustralian Research CouncilHSE University; Basic Research ProgramJapan Society for the Promotion of ScienceJohn Templeton FoundationMinistry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of SerbiaNational Science FoundationNIDDK NIH HHS K23 DK115820NIH HHSNPO EXCELES: Systemic Risk InstituteSabanci UniversityUniversity of California, DavisUniversity of Wroclaw; IDN Being Human LabVEGA
Abstract
Ideal partner preferences (i.e., ratings of the desirability of attributes like attractiveness or intelligence) are the source of numerous foundational findings in the interdisciplinary literature on human mating. Recently, research on the predictive validity of ideal partner preference matching (i.e., Do people positively evaluate partners who match vs. mismatch their ideals?) has become mired in several problems. First, articles exhibit discrepant analytic and reporting practices. Second, different findings emerge across laboratories worldwide, perhaps because they sample different relationship contexts and/or populations. This registered report-partnered with the Psychological Science Accelerator-uses a highly powered design (
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