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13/02/2014
The reasons for this also appear to point to traditional stereotypes; that is, a tall man helps to make a woman feel secure, feminine and delicate.
The study, which was conducted by Rice University and the University of North Texas, looked at data from online dating advertisements and experimental research and discovered that women are more likely to be fussy when it comes to a partner's height, than their male counterparts.
For example, 925 Yahoo! personal dating adverts found that 13.5% of men only wanted to date women who were shorter than them. This compared to 48.9% of women who only wanted to date men taller than they are.
Commenting on the findings, Michael Emerson, the Allyn and Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology, and the study's co-author, said: "Evolutionary psychology theory argues that similarity is overwhelmingly the rule in human mating.
"However, our study suggests that for physical features such as height, similarity is not the dominant rule, especially with females."
The second part of the study, which will be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Family Issues, involved 54 male (average height of 5ft 9in) and 131 female volunteers (average height of 5ft 4in) recruited from a US university.
Each participant was asked to answer open-ended questions and the results turned out to be similar to the first part of the study.
Some 37% of male respondents wanted to date only women shorter than they are, while 55% of female respondents wanted to date men taller than they are. Again, women cited protection and femininity as reasons for their decision. Interestingly, while the men were less likely to say that height mattered in a relationship, for those where it did matter, they admitted they preferred shorter women.
George Yancey, a professor of sociology at the University of North Texas and the study's lead author, said: "The masculine ability to offer physical protection is clearly connected to the gender stereotype of men as protectors.
"And in a society that encourages men to be dominant and women to be submissive, having the image of tall men hovering over short women reinforces this value."
(JP/CD)
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Women Want Their Partner To Be Taller
A new study has revealed that, when it comes to height in a relationship, women prefer their partner to be taller than them.The reasons for this also appear to point to traditional stereotypes; that is, a tall man helps to make a woman feel secure, feminine and delicate.
The study, which was conducted by Rice University and the University of North Texas, looked at data from online dating advertisements and experimental research and discovered that women are more likely to be fussy when it comes to a partner's height, than their male counterparts.
For example, 925 Yahoo! personal dating adverts found that 13.5% of men only wanted to date women who were shorter than them. This compared to 48.9% of women who only wanted to date men taller than they are.
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Commenting on the findings, Michael Emerson, the Allyn and Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology, and the study's co-author, said: "Evolutionary psychology theory argues that similarity is overwhelmingly the rule in human mating.
"However, our study suggests that for physical features such as height, similarity is not the dominant rule, especially with females."
The second part of the study, which will be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Family Issues, involved 54 male (average height of 5ft 9in) and 131 female volunteers (average height of 5ft 4in) recruited from a US university.
Each participant was asked to answer open-ended questions and the results turned out to be similar to the first part of the study.
Some 37% of male respondents wanted to date only women shorter than they are, while 55% of female respondents wanted to date men taller than they are. Again, women cited protection and femininity as reasons for their decision. Interestingly, while the men were less likely to say that height mattered in a relationship, for those where it did matter, they admitted they preferred shorter women.
George Yancey, a professor of sociology at the University of North Texas and the study's lead author, said: "The masculine ability to offer physical protection is clearly connected to the gender stereotype of men as protectors.
"And in a society that encourages men to be dominant and women to be submissive, having the image of tall men hovering over short women reinforces this value."
(JP/CD)
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