How situational perceptions relate to mate preferences

Lots of research on mate preferences often relies on a small list of traits chosen by researchers (Buss & Schmitt, 2019), and we aimed to take a broader perspective so we created an expanded list of 71 characteristics that can be important while looking for a long-term or a short-term mate. Moreover, most research on mate preferences focuses on personality, and many specifically on how maladaptive personality traits influence what individuals look for in a partner, but no one has ever done a study on situational affordances and their potential influence on mating choices.The goal of this study was to understand how our mate preferences can be influenced by the way we see the world and are those preferences differ between sexes. Given the newness of situational affordances research in mate preference, we attempted an exploratory study of all of the relationships between situational affordances and mate preferences. It seems intuitive that how people see the world may influence their mate preferences