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1、Received14November2003Accepted17December2003Publishedonline29April2004Sexualimprintinginhumanmatechoice112*TamasBereczkei,PetraGyurisandGlennE.Weisfeld1DepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofPe´cs,Ifjusagutja6,H-7624,Hungary2DepartmentofPsychology,WayneStateUniversity,Detroit,MI4820
2、7,USAAnimalandhumanstudieshaveshownthatindividualschoosematespartlyonthebasisofsimilarity,atendencyreferredtoashomogamy.Severalauthorshavesuggestedthataspecificinnaterecognitionmechanism,phenotypicmatching,allowstheorganismtodetectsimilarothersbytheirresemblancetoitself.However,
3、severalobjectionshavebeenraisedtothistheoryonbothempiricalandtheoreticalgrounds.Here,wereportthathomogamyinhumansisattainedpartlybysexualimprintingontheopposite-sexparentduringchildhood.Wehypothesizedthatchildrenfashionamentalmodeloftheiropposite-sexparent’sphenotypethatisusedas
4、atemplateforacquiringmates.Todisentangletheeffectsofphenotypicmatchingandsexualimprinting,adopteddaughtersandtheirrearingfamilieswereexam-ined.Judgesfoundsignificantresemblanceonfacialtraitsbetweendaughter’shusbandandheradoptivefather.Furthermore,thiseffectmaybemodifiedbythequal
5、ityofthefather–daughterrelationshipduringchildhood.Daughterswhoreceivedmoreemotionalsupportfromtheiradoptivefatherweremorelikelytochoosematessimilartothefatherthanthosewhosefatherprovidedalesspositiveemotionalatmosphere.Keywords:evolvedmatingpreferences;homogamy;sexualimprinting
6、;phenotypematching1.INTRODUCTIONofmiscarriageinhumans(Mascie-Taylor1988;Rushton1988;Thiessenetal.1997).ResearchhasshownthathumansexpartnersresembleHowishomogamythoughttobeachieved?Someani-eachotherinmanytraits(Mascie-Taylor1988,1995;malshavebeenfoundtoprefergeneticallysimilarmat
7、esWeisfeldetal.1992;Jaffe&Chacon-Puignau1995;Keller(Blausteinetal.1991;Holmes1995;Pfennig&Shermanetal.1996;Bereczkeietal.1997;Thiessen1999).Positive1995).Thismayoccurbyphenotypicmatchingtoself,correlationshavebeenfoundbetweentheirsocio-throughwhichtheyusetheirownphenotypetochoos
8、eeconomicstatus,age,intellectualability,educati