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To answer the question of whether love knows no age, researchers from the University of Göttingen, Indiana University, and Queen’s University Belfast collaborated with the female health app CLUE to reach over 20,000 single women aged 18 to 67 years from nearly 150 countries via an online questionnaire. In addition to heterosexual women, this study also included two groups often neglected in psychological research: bisexual and lesbian women.
Respondents were asked to rate how important attributes such as attractiveness, kindness and supportiveness, financial security and success, as well as education and intelligence, were to them in their partner. They were also asked to specify the youngest and oldest ages they would be happy to accept in a romantic partner. Using rigorous methods, the role of age in partner preferences was thoroughly investigated in these three groups.
Botzet concludes, “Love, it turns out, is not entirely ageless; it’s nuanced. A woman’s age is related to certain aspects of her desired partner, such as the preference for partners with stronger parenting intentions or the ideal age of a partner. These insights are exciting because they challenge conventional notions of how age is linked to the way women picture the partner of their dreams.”
More information:
Laura J. Botzet et al, The Link Between Age and Partner Preferences in a Large, International Sample of Single Women, Human Nature (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s12110-023-09460-4
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