Cross-cultural data on romantic love and mate preferences from 117,293 participants across 175 countries
Marta Kowal, Piotr Sorokowski, Biljana Gjoneska, Katarzyna Pisanski, Gerit Pfuhl, Leonardo Andrés Aguilar Durán, Steve M. J. Janssen, Benjamin Gelbart, Patrícia Arriaga, Jan Antfolk, Katarína Zvončáková, Linda H. Lidborg, Jorge Contreras‐Garduño, Mikhail V. Kozlov, Taciano L. Milfont, Marco Antônio Corrêa Varella, Valerija Križanić, Mahmoud Boussena, Tina Kavčič, Diana Ribeiro da Silva, Brahim Hamdaoui, Fatima Zahra Sahli, Karlijn Massar, Eliane Deschrijver, Tatsunori Ishii, Hakan Çetınkaya, Oksana Senyk, Farida Guemaz, Koen Ponnet, Yahya Don, Dušana Šakan, Gyesook Yoo, Ravit Nussinson, Joaquín Ungaretti, Ali R. Can, İzzet Duyar, Jiří Čeněk, João Falcão Carneiro, Norbert Meskó, Luca Kozma, Ellen K. Nyhus, Mona Vintilă, Oulmann Zerhouni, Farid Pazhoohi, Maja Zupančič, Sinem Söylemez, Austin Horng‐En Wang, Μαριέττα Παπαδάτου-Παστού, Irena Pavela Banai, Pavol Prokop, Mohd Sofian Omar Fauzee, Reza Afhami, Jean Carlos Natividade, Roberto Baiocco, Mara Morelli, Toivo Aavik, Ezgi Toplu‐Demirtaş, Singha Tulyakul, Anna Włodarczyk, Razieh Chegeni, Anabela Caetano Santos, Dmitry Grigoryev, Dmitrii Dubrov, Dimitri Chubinidze, Gözde İkizer, Nana Burduli, Johanna Czamanski‐Cohen, Rizwana Amin, Πέτρος Ρούσσος, Evgeniya Hristova, Rūta Sargautytė, Ekaterine Pirtskhalava, Tenuunjargal Avirmed, Arooj Najmussaqib, Abdelilah CHARYATE, Shagufta Batool, Tatiana Volkodav, Yoshihiko Kunisato, Yuki Yamada, Asako Toyama, Mariia Perun, Seda Dural, Tetyana Mandzyk, Anna Studzińska, Огнен Спасовски, Felipe E. García, Caterina Grano, Merve Boğa, Mehmet Koyuncu, Sangeeta Singh, Ju Hee Park, Derya Atamtürk, Samuel Lins, Martin Pírko, David Lacko, Balázs Aczél, Ferenc Kocsor, Ádám Putz, Tobias Otterbring, Pavol Kačmár
Psychological studies on close relationships have often overlooked cultural diversity, dynamic processes, and potentially universal principles that shape intimate partnerships. To address the limited generalizability of previous research and advance our understanding of romantic love experiences, mate preferences, and physical attractiveness, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural survey study on these topics. A total of 404 researchers collected data in 45 languages from April to August 2021, involving 117,293 participants from 175 countries. Aside from standard demographic questions, the survey included valuable information on variables relevant to romantic relationships: intimate, passionate, and committed love within romantic relationships, physical-attractiveness enhancing behaviors, gender equality endorsement, collectivistic attitudes, personal history of pathogenic diseases, relationship quality, jealousy, personal involvement in sexual and/or emotional infidelity, relational mobility, mate preferences, and acceptance of sugar relationships. The resulting dataset provides a rich resource for investigating patterns within, and associations across, a broad range of variables relevant to romantic relationships, with extensive opportunities to analyze individual experiences worldwide.