Desired Traits in Mate Selection: A Survey of Hispanic-American Female Students

Abstract Previous research on mate selection has primarily focused on long-term relationships, i.e. spouse selection. Literature suggests that factors and traits playing a significant role in choosing a short-term partner have been mostly overlooked in mate-selection research. The present study, with a sample of 115 Hispanic-American females attending a public university, attempts to determine if there are significant differences in reported preferences when looking for short-term partners versus when looking for a long-term partner. The subjects individually listed their preferences for short-term partners from a list of traits generated by previous research. The participants were then put into groups consisting of five females in each group. Group members discuss their preferences among themselves and generate a list of desirable traits in a long-term partner. This paper reports the findings of the survey in two specific categories. It separates the desired traits for short-term and long-term partners, and it presents the differences in preferences based on relational status, i.e., single or in a relationship.

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ANALISIS FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI PEMBIAYAAN BANK SYARIAH UNTUK SEKTOR PERIKANAN DI INDONESIA

Jurnal Ekonomi Syariah Teori dan Terapan ◽

10.20473/vol7iss20204pp757-773 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 757

Author(s):

Nur Laili ◽

Hendri Tanjung

Keyword(s):

Monetary Policy ◽

Significant Role ◽

Banking Industry ◽

Islamic Banking ◽

Short Term ◽

Financial Access ◽

Data Source

The development of the fisheries sector in Indonesia should get more attention, especially in efforts to increase fishing businesses, limited financial access is still a problem that must be faced by the fisheries sector. Thus, Islamic banking can play a significant role in providing financing for the development of national fisheries. This study analyzes the factors that influence fisheries financing in Islamic banking in Indonesia and how efforts to increase fisheries sector financing. The processed data source is the monthly statistics of the Islamic banking industry from October 2014 to May 2019, and the method of analysis of this study uses VAR / VECM. The results showed that the NPF and PUAS affect fishery financing in the short term negatively and significantly. Whereas in the long term INF, NPF, PUAS, and ISBIS negatively affect fishery financing, as for CAR, and FDR affects fishery financing positively. Furthermore, SBK, and MRP do not affect fishery financing, both short-term and long-term. This study recommends an increase in the proportion of fishery financing along with an increase in Islamic banking capital, increased monitoring of fishery financing, and strengthening of national monetary policy instruments.Keywords: fisheries financing, Islamic banking, VAR/VECM

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Do Peers Affect Undergraduates’ Decisions to Switch Majors?

Educational Researcher ◽

10.3102/0013189x211023514 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0013189X2110235

Author(s):

Shi Pu ◽

Yu Yan ◽

Liang Zhang

Keyword(s):

Peer Effects ◽

Social Group ◽

Strong Nonlinearity ◽

Group Level ◽

Short Term ◽

Group Assignment ◽

The Social ◽

Group Members ◽

Job Prospects

In this study, dormitory room and social group assignment data from a college are used to investigate peer effects on college students’ decisions to switch majors. Results reveal strong evidence of such peer effects at both the room and the social group level. Most notably, at the room level, the dense concentration of same-major roommates deters students from switching majors; having one or two same-major roommates has no significant effect on major switching, indicating strong nonlinearity of peer effects at the room level. Such nonlinearity is not observed among social group members. Results also reveal evidence that students’ choices of new majors are affected by peers’ majors. Peers are more likely to choose the same destination majors than nonpeers. In choosing their new majors, students do not necessarily follow their peers indiscriminately. Their decisions seem to be influenced more by short-term academic requirements than by long-term job prospects. Finally, peer effects on major switching and major choices are stronger at the dormitory room level than at the social group level in most cases.

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Differential Mating Motives' Influence on Preferences for Facially Communicated Extraversion

10.31237/osf.io/jxgh8 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Mitch Brown

Keyword(s):

Mate Selection ◽

Mating Strategies ◽

Future Research ◽

Short Term ◽

Future Directions ◽

Motivational States ◽

Low Levels ◽

Women’S Preferences ◽

Context Specific

Human facial structures communicate personality from which one can infer another’s behavioral intentions, forming a basis for mate selection. One particularly detectable trait through facial structures is extraversion. Extraversion is a trait associated with heightened interest in promiscuous mating strategies and preferred among individuals similarly interested in short-term mating, implicating extraverted mates as ideal trait for short-term mating. Nonetheless, behavioral repertoires associated with extraversion may also pose risks, particularly in long-term mating, as their increased promiscuity may undermine their fidelity to a specific partner, thereby potentially reducing biparental investment in any offspring produced. Thus, a preference for introversion (i.e., low extraversion) may be desirable in long-term mating. This dissertation sought to determine the extent to which differential mating contexts, as elicited through activating context-specific motives, influence preferences for facially communicated extraversion versus introversion. Men and women were experimentally primed with mating motives, either long-or short-term, or a control state before indicating the extent to which various mating-related motivational states were activated (i.e., arousal, intrasexual competition, infidelity concerns, sociosexually unrestricted attitudes). Finally, I tasked them with indicating their preferences among male and female face pairs manipulated to communicate high and low levels of extraversion. Consistent with previous research, participants reported a preference for extraverted female faces and aversion to extraverted male faces. However, and contrary to hypotheses, differential mating contexts influenced neither men’s nor women’s preferences for extraversion. Furthermore, no motivational states provided the predicted mediation pathways. I frame these results based on various methodological limitations that could inform future research and posit future directions.

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Analysis of Factors Affecting Islamic Bank Financing for the Fisheries Sector in Indonesia

ABDIMAS TALENTA: Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat ◽

10.32734/abdimastalenta.v4i2.4176 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 568-583

Author(s):

Nur Laili ◽

Hendri Tanjung

Keyword(s):

Monetary Policy ◽

Significant Role ◽

Banking Industry ◽

Policy Instruments ◽

Islamic Banking ◽

Short Term ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Bank Financing ◽

Data Source

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Surf Aces Resurfaced: The Beach Boys and the Greening of the American Counter-Culture, 1963-1973 // Los Beach Boys y el ecologismo en la contracultura americana, 1963-1973

Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment ◽

10.37536/ecozona.2013.4.1.499 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 44-60

Author(s):

Dale Carter

Keyword(s):

High Risk ◽

Social Criticism ◽

Risk Averse ◽

Short Term ◽

Commercial Music ◽

Beach Boys ◽

Counter Culture ◽

Group Members ◽

American Counterculture

Abstract The rise of the American counterculture between the early- to mid-1960s and early- to mid-1970s was closely associated with the growth of environmentalism. This article explores how both informed popular music, which during these years became not only a prominent form of entertainment but also a forum for cultural and social criticism. In particular, through contextual and lyrical analyses of recordings by The Beach Boys, the article identifies patterns of change and continuity in the articulation of countercultural, ecological, and related sensibilities. During late 1966 and early 1967, the group’s leader Brian Wilson and lyricist Van Dyke Parks collaborated on a collection of songs embodying such progressive thinking, even though the music of The Beach Boys had previously shown no such ambitions. In the short term, their efforts floundered as the risk-averse logic of the commercial music industry prompted group members to resist perceived threats to their established profile. Yet in the long term (and ironically in the name of commercial survival), The Beach Boys began selectively to adopt innovations they had previously shunned. Shorn of its more controversial associations, what had formerly been considered high risk had by 1970 become good business as once-marginal environmentalism gained broader acceptability: thus did ‘America’s band’ articulate the flowering, greening, and fading of the counterculture. Resumen El auge de la contracultura americana entre principios y mediados de las décadas de 1960 y 1970 guarda una estrecha relación con la expansión del movimiento ecologista. Este artículo explora el modo en que ambas corrientes dieron forma a la música popular, un medio de expresión que se convirtió en una destacada forma de entretenimiento y un foro de crítica cultural y social durante el período analizado. Más específicamente, se emplea el análisis contextual y lírico de las grabaciones de los Beach Boys para identificar patrones de cambio y continuidad en los movimientos contracultural y ecologista, y otros afines a ellos. Entre finales de 1966 y principios de 1967, Brian Wilson (el líder del grupo) y el letrista Van Dyke Parks colaboraron en un variado conjunto de canciones que encarnaban tales ideas progresistas, aun cuando la música de los Beach Boys nunca había puesto de manifiesto este tipo de ambiciones hasta entonces. A corto plazo, sus esfuerzos fueron en vano, ya que la lógica conservadora de la industria discográfica comercial instó a los miembros del grupo a resistir ante las amenazas que recibía su perfil. Más a largo plazo (e, irónicamente, en nombre de la supervivencia comercial) los Beach Boys comenzaron a adoptar, de un modo más bien escrupuloso, novedades que antes habían evitado debido a las controvertidas asociaciones que permitían establecer. En 1970, lo que antes se consideraba de alto riesgo se había convertido en un gran negocio debido en buena medida a que el ecologismo, otrora marginal, había ganado en aceptación popular; ello llevó a la “Banda de América” a expresar el florecimiento, la madurez y el desvanecimiento de la contracultura.

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Norwegian Men and Women Value Similar Mate Traits in Short-Term Relationships

Evolutionary Psychology ◽

10.1177/1474704920979623 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

pp. 147470492097962

Author(s):

Mehmet Mehmetoglu ◽

Ilmari Määttänen

Keyword(s):

Mate Selection ◽

Selection Criteria ◽

Physical Appearance ◽

Mate Preferences ◽

Mating Strategy ◽

The Other ◽

Short Term ◽

Men And Women ◽

Relationship Length

Previous research has provided evidence that females are generally the more selective sex in humans. Moreover, both sexes have been found to be more selective in long-term mating compared to short-term mating. In this study, we have examined the effects of sex, mating strategy (preferred relationship length) and their interaction on mate preferences (i.e., mate selection criteria) in an egalitarian Nordic society, namely Norway. The study sample consisted of 1,000 individuals, 417 of whom were male and 583 female respondents. According to our findings, men were more selective in physical appearance, whereas women were more selective in all the other mate preferences (e.g., understanding, dominant, kind, intellectual etc.). The respondents that were seeking short-term relationships had higher preference for physical appearance, humorousness and sociability. On the other hand, the respondents that were seeking long-term relationships were more selective in most of the other mate preferences (i.e., understanding, kind, cultivated, domestic, reliable, and similar). Interestingly, no interaction effect was found between sex and mating strategy in that differences between long-term and short-term seekers in mate preferences did not change depending on sex. This suggests that men and women value the same traits in short-term relationships.

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Evidence of conditional strategies in human friendship

10.7287/peerj.preprints.347v1 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Arter

Keyword(s):

Emotional Support ◽

Mate Selection ◽

Mating Strategy ◽

Relationship Status ◽

Attachment Avoidance ◽

Short Term ◽

Exploration Strategy ◽

Skill Building ◽

Intimate Exchange

Many species employ conditional strategies for reproduction or survival. In other words, each individual “chooses” one of two or more possible phenotypes to maximize survival or reproductive advantage given specific ecological niche conditions (e.g., Moran, 1992). Humans seem to employ at least one conditional reproductive strategy, choosing between a more short-term or a more long-term mating strategy (Gangestad & Simpson, 2000), and as with non-human animals, their choices relate in part to an assessment of their own traits (Belsky, 1997; Schmitt, 2005). However, the selection pressures that individuals of a species can exert on each other are not restricted to mate selection; they can arise from many forms of social interaction (West-Eberhard, 1983; Wolf, Brodie, & Moore, 1999). Evidence suggests that individuals are sensitive to characteristics of the self, friend, and environmental conditions when choosing friends (Fehr, 1996; Rose, 1985; Verbrugge, 1977), and that a person’s economic, social, and environmental circumstances influence how they form and organize their friendships (Adams & Allan, 1998; Feld & Carter, 1998). Thus, in this paper I hypothesize that humans have evolved a coherent range of conditional friendship strategies: that we vary predictably in terms of the friendships we form, based on an assessment of our own traits, others’ traits, and our own current needs. I propose a continuum of individual differences in friendship strategy, anchored on one end by those who use friendships for exploration (e.g., skill-building and networking) and on the other end by those who use friendships for intimate exchange (e.g., emotional support and intimacy). I created a measure assessing this continuum, and found that men tended to report a stronger exploration strategy than women. I also found that people with a stronger exploration strategy also had a more short-term mating strategy and were more extroverted, and that people with a stronger intimate exchange strategy reported themselves to be more kind and generous; these results remained when controlling for gender. However, friendship strategy did not relate to socioeconomic status, age, attachment avoidance, relationship status, or presence of kin relationships. There was some evidence that friendship strategy was related to the number of friends an individual reported having and how close they felt to their friends.

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Short-term and long-term mate preference in men and women in an Iranian population

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-99653-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Fatemeh Sadat Mirfazeli ◽

Meng-Chuan Lai ◽

Amirhossein Memari ◽

Armin Rajab ◽

Milad Shafizadeh ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mate Selection ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Line Drawing ◽

Mate Preferences ◽

Mate Preference ◽

Digit Ratio ◽

Short Term ◽

Men And Women ◽

Women In Sports

AbstractMate preference in short-term relationships and long-term ones may depend on many physical, psychological, and socio-cultural factors. In this study, 178 students (81 females) in sports and 153 engineering students (64 females) answered the systemizing quotient (SQ) and empathizing quotient (EQ) questionnaires and had their digit ratio measured. They rated their preferred mate on 12 black-line drawing body figures varying in body mass index (BMI) and waist to hip ratio (WHR) for short-term and long-term relationships. Men relative to women preferred lower WHR and BMI for mate selection for both short-term and long-term relationships. BMI and WHR preference in men is independent of each other, but has a negative correlation in women. For men, digit ratio was inversely associated with BMI (p = 0.039, B = − 0.154) preference in a short-term relationship, and EQ was inversely associated with WHR preference in a long-term relationship (p = 0.045, B = − 0.164). Furthermore, men and women in sports, compared to engineering students, preferred higher (p = 0.009, B = 0.201) and lower BMI (p = 0.034, B = − 0.182) for short-term relationships, respectively. Women were more consistent in their preferences for short-term and long-term relationships relative to men. Both biological factors and social/experiential factors contribute to mate preferences in men while in women, mostly social/experiential factors contribute to them.

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Lone ranger decision making versus consensus decision making: Descriptive analysis

Journal of Governance and Regulation ◽

10.22495/jgr_v4_i4_c4_p12 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 548-552

Author(s):

Maite Sara Mashego

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Short Term ◽

Decision Management ◽

Group Members ◽

Consensus Decision Making ◽

The Relationship ◽

Consensus Decision ◽

Tools And Methods

Consensus decision making, concerns group members make decisions together with the requirement of reaching a consensus that is all members abiding by the decision outcome. Lone ranging worked for sometime in a autocratic environment. Researchers are now pointing to consensus decision-making in organizations bringing dividend to many organizations. This article used a descriptive analysis to compare the goodness of consensus decision making and making lone ranging decision management. This article explored the models, roles, tools and methods of consensus decision making. The results were that consensus decision making brings people together and cements the relationship among employees. The lone ranger’s decision is only consented to by staff but inwardly disagreeable resulting in short term benefits but long term collapse of organizations.

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A VAR Analysis Of US-China Economic Linkages

International Business & Economics Research Journal (IBER) ◽

10.19030/iber.v8i7.3152 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 8 (7) ◽

Author(s):

Dene T. Hurley

Keyword(s):

Interest Rates ◽

Impulse Response ◽

Significant Role ◽

Variance Decomposition ◽

Short Term ◽

Treasury Bill ◽

Treasury Securities ◽

Var Analysis ◽

The U.S

An increase in Chinese purchases of U.S. treasury securities in parallel with Chinas commitment to maintain the value of the Yuan have been blamed in recent years for the divergence of the U.S. long-term and short-term interest rates. Results of the VECM, variance decomposition and impulse response analyses provided support for the growing speculations that growing Chinese demand for U.S. securities played a significant role in keeping the 10-year Treasury bill rate low while keeping the Yuan weak relative to the U.S. dollar. As for the U.S. long-term and short-term interest rates, the causality was found to run from the 10-year Treasury bill yield to the s rate which helps to explain why rising short-term rate in the U.S. since mid-2004 had little or no impact on the long-term rate.

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