I'ts a date: avaliação das diferenças individuais em um speed-dating com universitários brasileiros

Abstract

All the living beings have evolved behavioral and physiological mechanisms in favor of passing on genes to next generation, like choosing romantic partners. In humans ancestors this choice may favor some preferences to be selected over others. Many of the studies that analysed the human preferences evaluate only romantic partner idealization and do not analysed the real mate choice. The aim of our study was to investigate the differences in preferences for individual characteristics, as personality and attractiveness, between sex, and evaluate the idealization and real partner choice in speed-datings experiments . For this, we applied questionnaires and realized an speed-dating experiment. In the first empirical article, we aimed to analyze the use of different methodologies in the assessment of partner choice and show the relation between them and the profile of speed-dating participants. Our results show that speed-daterers consider themselves more attractive and are more resourceful than individuals who do not participate in speed-dating. The second article evaluated the individual characteristics such as attractiveness and self-assessment as a romantic partner, the relationship between them and the influence of mate value on the idealization and choice of a romantic partner. Our results showed that self-perception influences individuals' selfesteem; in addition, this self-perception influences idealization and choice, but with differences between genders. In our third article we assessed the importance of attractiveness and personality in the choices for different relationship contexts Our results show that attractiveness appears to play a more important role for the long-term than personality traits, but only for women. This study shows that there are several relationships between different individual characteristics in the process of choosing a partner, and that these relationships differ according to individuals’ sex, in addition to being context dependent.