Browsing by Autor "Piotr Sorokowski"

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Author Correction: Free mate choice does not influence reproductive success in humans
(Nature Portfolio, 2018) Piotr Sorokowski; Agata Groyecka-Bernard; Maciej Karwowski; Upma Manral; Amit Kumar; Agnieszka Niemczyk; Michalina Marczak; Michał Misiak; Agnieszka Sorokowska; Thomas Huanca
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
Free mate choice does not influence reproductive success in humans
(Nature Portfolio, 2017) Piotr Sorokowski; Agata Groyecka-Bernard; Maciej Karwowski; Upma Manral; Amit Kumar; Agnieszka Niemczyk; Michalina Marczak; Michał Misiak; Agnieszka Sorokowska; Thomas Huanca
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
Money, Food, and Daily Life Objects Are Similarly Shared in the Dictator Game. A Study among Poles and Tsimane’
(Frontiers Media, 2017) Piotr Sorokowski; Anna Oleszkiewicz; Agnieszka Niemczyk; Michalina Marczak; Tomás Huanca; Esther C. Velasco; Agnieszka Sorokowska
The dictator game (DG) is one of the most popular methods for measuring sharing behaviors. However, the matter of goods used in the game has rarely been examined and discussed. We conducted a study in which all participants played standard version of DG in one of the three versions - "money," "food," or "daily life objects" sharing. Further, we wanted to expand the generalizability of our findings by investigating whether patterns in sharing various goods are independent of culture and the level of market integration. Thus, the study was conducted among people who function daily under the conditions of low market integration (109 Tsimane' - forager-horticulturists from Bolivian Amazon) and in a society highly integrated with the market-based economy (85 Polish people). We observed that among both Polish and Tsimane' people the participants were equally likely to share money, food and small, daily life objects with an unknown partner, which implies that generosity might not be related with the type of possessed resources. However, regardless of the kind of goods given, Tsimane' people were less eager to share with anonymous others than Polish people. We present several implications of our findings for studies on generosity and altruism.
Olfaction and Environment: Tsimane’ of Bolivian Rainforest Have Lower Threshold of Odor Detection Than Industrialized German People
(Public Library of Science, 2013) Agnieszka Sorokowska; Piotr Sorokowski; Thomas Hummel; Tomás Huanca
Olfactory sensitivity varies between individuals. However, data regarding cross-cultural and inter-group differences are scarce. We compared the thresholds of odor detection of the traditional society of Tsimane' (native Amazonians of the Bolivian rainforest; n = 151) and people living in Dresden (Germany; n = 286) using "Sniffin' Sticks" threshold subtest. Tsimane' detected n-butanol at significantly lower concentrations than the German subjects. The distribution of thresholds of the Tsimane' was very specific, with 25% of Tsimane' obtaining better results in the olfactory test than any member of the German group. These data suggest that differences in olfactory sensitivity seem to be especially salient between industrialized and non-industrialized populations inhabiting different environmental conditions. We hypothesize that the possible sources of such differences are: (i) the impact of pollution which impairs the olfactory abilities of people from industrialized countries; (ii) better training of olfaction because of the higher importance of smell in traditional populations; (iii) environmental pressures shaping olfactory abilities in these populations.
Preference for Women's Body Mass and Waist-to-Hip Ratio in Tsimane' Men of the Bolivian Amazon: Biological and Cultural Determinants
(Public Library of Science, 2014) Piotr Sorokowski; Krzysztof Kościński; Agnieszka Sorokowska; Tomás Huanca
The issue of cultural universality of waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) attractiveness in women is currently under debate. We tested men's preferences for female WHR in traditional society of Tsimane'(Native Amazonians) of the Bolivian rainforest (N = 66). Previous studies showed preferences for high WHR in traditional populations, but they did not control for the women's body mass.We used a method of stimulus creation that enabled us to overcome this problem. We found that WHR lower than the average WHR in the population is preferred independent of cultural conditions. Our participants preferred the silhouettes of low WHR, but high body mass index (BMI), which might suggest that previous results could be an artifact related to employed stimuli. We found also that preferences for female BMI are changeable and depend on environmental conditions and probably acculturation (distance from the city). Interestingly, the Tsimane' men did not associate female WHR with age, health, physical strength or fertility. This suggests that men do not have to be aware of the benefits associated with certain body proportions - an issue that requires further investigation.