Browsing by Autor "Marina Butovskaya"

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Body Height Preferences and Actual Dimorphism in Stature between Partners in Two Non-Western Societies (Hadza and Tsimane')
(SAGE Publishing, 2015) Piotr Sorokowski; Agnieszka Sorokowska; Marina Butovskaya; Gert Stulp; Tomás Huanca; Bernhard Fink
Body height influences human mate preferences and choice. A typical finding in Western societies is that women prefer men who are taller than themselves and, equivalently, men prefer women who are shorter than themselves. However, recent reports in non-Western societies (e.g., the Himba in Namibia) challenge the view on the universality of such preferences. Here we report on male and female height preferences in two non-Western populations--the Hadza (Tanzania) and the Tsimane' (Bolivia)--and the relationships between body height preferences and the height of actual partners. In the Hadza, most individuals preferred a sexual dimorphism in stature (SDS) with the man being much taller than the woman. Preferences for SDS and actual partner SDS were positively and significantly correlated in both men and women, suggesting that people who preferred larger height differences also had larger height differences with their partners. In the Tsimane', the majority of men preferred an SDS with the man being taller than the woman, but women did not show such a preference. Unlike in the Hadza, SDS preference was not significantly correlated to actual partner SDS. We conclude that patterns of height preferences and choices in the Hadza and Tsimane' are different than those observed in Western societies, and discuss possible causes for the observed differences between non-Western and Western societies.
Dietary customs and food availability shape the preferences for basic tastes: A cross-cultural study among Polish, Tsimane' and Hadza societies
(Elsevier BV, 2017) Agnieszka Sorokowska; Robert Pellegrino; Marina Butovskaya; Michalina Marczak; Agnieszka Niemczyk; Tomás Huanca; Piotr Sorokowski
Is the perception of odour pleasantness shared across cultures and ecological conditions? Evidence from Amazonia, East Africa, New Guinea, Malaysia and Poland
(Royal Society, 2024) Piotr Sorokowski; Michał Misiak; S. Craig Roberts; Marta Kowal; Marina Butovskaya; Mohd Sofian Omar Fauzee; Tomás Huanca; Agnieszka Sorokowska
What makes an odour pleasant or unpleasant? The inherent properties of the constituent chemical compounds, or the nose of the beholder, driven by idiosyncratic differences and culture-specific learning? Here, 582 individuals, including Tanzanian Hadza hunter-gatherers, Amazonian Tsimane' horticulturalists, Yali from the Papuan highlands and two industrialized populations (Poles, Malaysians), rated the pleasantness of 15 odour samples. We find considerable similarities in odour assessments across cultures, but our data do not fully support a claim regarding the universality of smell preferences. Despite cross-cultural similarities in olfactory assessments, probably driven by odour properties, we suggest that odour availability in ecological and cultural niches bears an undeniable effect on human odour preferences.
Love as a universal phenomenon: Data from nine non-WEIRD societies
(Elsevier BV, 2025) Piotr Sorokowski; Marina Butovskaya; Agata Groyecka-Bernard; Tomás Huanca; Amit Kumar; Upma Manral; Oneyekachi M. Odo; Ike E. Onyishi; Esther C. Velasco; Adam Bode
Love Components in Free-Choice and Arranged Marriages Among Five Non-Western Populations From Africa, Amazonia, and Himalayas
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2024) Piotr Sorokowski; Agata Groyecka-Bernard; Marta Kowal; Marina Butovskaya; Michał Stefańczyk; Tomás Huanca; Amit Kumar; Upma Manral; Oneyekachi M. Odo; Ike E. Onyishi
Mapping sweetness preference across the lifespan for culturally different societies
(Elsevier BV, 2018) Robert Pellegrino; Agnieszka Sorokowska; Michalina Marczak; Agnieszka Niemczyk; Marina Butovskaya; Tomás Huanca; Piotr Sorokowski