Is there an own race preference in attractiveness

Title: Is there an own race preference in attractiveness
Creator: Burke, Darren; Nolan, Caroline; Hayward, William Gordan; Russell, Robert; Sulikowski, Danielle
Relation: Evolutionary Psychology Vol. 11, Issue 4, p. 855-872
Relation: http://www.epjournal.net/articles/is-there-and-own-race-preference-in-attractiveness
Publisher: Evolutionary Psychology
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2013
Description: Even in multicultural nations interracial relationships and marriages are quite rare, one reflection of assortative mating. A relatively unexplored factor that could explain part of this effect is that people may find members of their own racial group more attractive than members of other groups. We tested whether there is an own-race preference in attractiveness judgments, and also examined the effect of familiarity by comparing the attractiveness ratings given by participants of different ancestral and geographic origins to faces of European, East Asian and African origin. We did not find a strong own-race bias in attractiveness judgments, but neither were the data consistent with familiarity, suggesting an important role for other factors determining the patterns of assortative mating observed.
Subject: attractiveness; faces; sexual selection; own race
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1051875
Identifier: uon:15332
Identifier: ISSN:1474-7049
Language: eng
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