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International Preferences in Selecting Mates

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, March 1990
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#12 of 1,001)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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news
18 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
8 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
10 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

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mendeley
218 Mendeley
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1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
International Preferences in Selecting Mates
Published in
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, March 1990
DOI 10.1177/0022022190211001
Authors

David M. Buss, Max Abbott, Alois Angleitner, Armen Asherian, Angela Biaggio, Angel Blanco-Villasenor, M. Bruchon-Schweitzer, Hai-Yuan Ch'U, Janusz Czapinski, Boele Deraad, Bo Ekehammar, Noha El Lohamy, Mario Fioravanti, James Georgas, Per Gjerde, Ruth Guttman, Fatima Hazan, Saburo Iwawaki, N. Janakiramaiah, Fatemeh Khosroshani, Shulamith Kreitler, Lance Lachenicht, Margaret Lee, Kadi Liik, Brian Little, Stanislaw Mika, Mariam Moadel-Shahid, Geraldine Moane, Maritza Montero, A. C. Mundy-Castle, Toomas Niit, Evaristo Nsenduluka, Ryszard Pienkowski, Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman, Julio Ponce De Leon, Jacques Rousseau, Mark A. Runco, Marilyn P. Safir, Curtis Samuels, Rasyid Sanitioso, Robert Serpell, Nico Smid, Christopher Spencer, Meri Tadinac, Elka N. Todorova, Kari Troland, L. Van Den Brande, Guus Van Heck, L. Van Langenhove, Kuo-Shu Yang

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 5 2%
United Kingdom 3 1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 206 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 47 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 17%
Student > Master 26 12%
Researcher 15 7%
Professor 12 6%
Other 40 18%
Unknown 41 19%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 97 44%
Social Sciences 23 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 2%
Arts and Humanities 4 2%
Other 27 12%
Unknown 49 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 167. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 October 2026.
All research outputs
#309,454
of 34,760,265 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
#12
of 1,001 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#39
of 22,878 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
#1
of 2 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,001 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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