Mate dollars

Danielle Sulikowski

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_101-1

Mate dollars

Danielle Sulikowski

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Mate dollars (Li et al., 2002) are a hypothetical currency utilized in self-report experiments investigating human mate preferences. Participants are given a fixed number of mate dollars to spend across a finite number of traits to “purchase” their ideal partner – sometimes called a budget-allocation task. The more mate dollars a participant spends on any given trait, the higher their ideal partner will be on that trait. But the more mate dollars that are spent on any given trait, the fewer mate dollars the participant has left to spend on other traits. The application of mate dollars to self-reported mating preferences, therefore, is designed to invoke trade-offs across multiple desired traits.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of sexual psychology and behavior
Editors	Todd K. Shackelford
Place of Publication	Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1-3
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031089565
ISBN (Print)	9783031089565
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_101-1
Publication status	Published - 16 Dec 2022

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