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ArticlePsychological science2025

*Deconfounding Sex and Sex of Partner in Mate-Preference Research.

Ashley J Coventry, Selina Mixner, Benjamin Gelbart, Kathryn V Walter, Daniel Conroy-Beam, Tamsin C German

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Article in Psychological science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ashley J CoventryDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara.ORCID 0009-0001-1080-3574
Selina MixnerDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Benjamin GelbartDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara.ORCID 0000-0001-7171-5693
Kathryn V WalterDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara.ORCID 0000-0002-4574-2900
Daniel Conroy-BeamDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara.ORCID 0000-0003-3701-0870
Tamsin C GermanDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara.ORCID 0000-0002-4754-8108

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Abstract

Much of the previous research examining sex differences in human mate preferences has relied exclusively on heterosexual participants. Consequently, prior work overlooks a critical limitation: In heterosexual populations, participant sex and partner sex are perfectly confounded. Here, we tease apart this fundamental problem by separately examining ideal preferences for male and female partners across two studies-one using a large bisexual sample (

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BisexualityChoice BehaviorHeterosexualitySexual and Gender MinoritiesSexual BehaviorSexual PartnersAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSex FactorsYoung Adultevolutionary psychologymate preferencesmating psychologyopen dataopen materials

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