TY  - INPR
A1  - Hipp, Lena
A1  - Leumann, Sandra
A1  - Schober, Pia S.
T1  - Partnership penalties for working in gender-atypical occupations?
BT  - observational and experimental evidence from Germany
N2  - Does working in a gender-atypical occupation reduce individuals’ likelihood of finding a different-sex romantic partner, and do such occupational partnership penalties contribute to occupational gender segregation? To answer this question, we theorized partnership penalties for working in gender-atypical occupations by drawing on insights from evolutionary psychology, social constructivism, and rational choice theory and exploited the stability of occupational pathways in Germany. In Study 1, we analyzed observational data from a national probability sample (N= 1,634,944) to assess whether individuals in gender-atypical occupations were less likely to be partnered than individuals who worked in gender typical occupations. To assess whether the observed partnership gaps found in Study 1 were causally related to the gender typicality of men’s and women’s occupations, we conducted a field experiment on a dating app (N = 6,778). Because the findings from Study 2 suggested that young women and men indeed experienced penalties for working in a gender-atypical occupation (at least when they were not highly attractive), we employed a choice-experimental design in Study 3 (N = 1,250) to assess whether women and men were aware of occupational partnership penalties and showed that anticipating occupational partnership penalties may keep young and highly educated women from working in gender-atypical occupations. Our main conclusion therefore is that that observed penalties and their anticipation seem to be driven by unconscious rather than conscious processes.
KW  - gender
KW  - occupational gender segregation
KW  - marriage
KW  - partnership
KW  - mating
KW  - dating
KW  - stereotypes
KW  - observational data
KW  - experiment
Y1  - 2024
U6  - https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ydurp
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schröder-Abé, Michela
A1  - Rentzsch, Katrin
A1  - Asendorpf, Jens B.
A1  - Penke, Lars
T1  - Good Enough for an Affair. Self-Enhancement of Attractiveness, Interest in Potential Mates and Popularity as a Mate
JF  - European journal of personality
N2  - Using data from the Berlin Speed Dating Study, we tested rival hypotheses concerning the effects of self-enhancement of attractiveness on dating outcomes. Three hundred eighty-two participants took part in one of the 17 speed-dating sessions. After each speed-dating interaction, participants indicated how interesting they found the respective person as a long-term and short-term partner. Using social relations analyses, we computed perceiver effects (being more or less choosy) and target effects (being rated as more or less interesting) of long-term and short-term partner ratings. Self-enhancement was operationalized as the discrepancy between self-rated attractiveness and four components of actual attractiveness (observer-rated facial and vocal attractiveness, height and body mass index). Results indicated that self-enhancers were less choosy with respect to their interest for short-term partners, which was especially true for men, but more choosy with respect to long-term partners. With regard to popularity as a mate, potential partners indicated that they found self-enhancers more interesting as short-term partners but not as long-term partners. As self-enhancement is a key component of narcissism, these results are consistent with findings that narcissists perceive many sexual affairs as an achievement, while preferring selected ‘trophy’ long-term partners, and narcissists have a charming appeal for short-term, but not lasting, social relationships.
KW  - self-enhancement
KW  - physical attractiveness
KW  - mating
KW  - speed dating
KW  - social relations analyses
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2029
SN  - 0890-2070
SN  - 1099-0984
VL  - 30
SP  - 12
EP  - 18
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -