The impact of traits offered in personal advertisements on response rates

By B. Pawłowski, S. Kozieł. 2002

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Strategic misrepresentation in online dating: The effects of gender, self-monitoring, and personality traits (2010, background): “On average, men prefer thinner mates (Buss & Schmitt, 1993; Pawlowski & Koziel, 2002).”
HurryDate: Mate preferences in action (2005, background): “Similarly, the finding of Pawlowski and Koziel (2002) that education level influenced female preferences in personal ads the most is at odds with our data, although this might be an artifact of our peculiar sample, which consisted of people who were predominantly well educated.”
Sex differences in mate selection strategies: Content analyses and responses to personal advertisements in Brazil (2002, methodology): “This trend is consistent with that found previously in the USA (Kenrick & Keefe, 1992; Kenrick et al., 1995; Wiederman, 1993), UK (Greenlees & McGrew, 1994), Hungary (Bereczei et al., 1997), and Poland (Pawlowski & Koziel, 2002), as well as with our findings on actual age differences between spouses”
Oppressive Beliefs at Play: Associations among Beauty Ideals and Practices and Individual Differences in Sexism, Objectification of Others, and Media Exposure (2010, background): “…have been extensively studied in the psychological literature, with most studies documenting a “male-taller norm,” such that both women and men prefer to be in relationships where the man is taller than the woman (e.g., Jackson & Ervin, 1992; Pawłowski & Jasieńska, 2005; Pawłowski & Koziel, 2002).”