Cross-cultural data on romantic love and mate preferences from 117,293 participants across 175 countries

Marta Kowal; Piotr Sorokowski; Biljana Gjoneska; Katarzyna Pisanski; Gerit Pfuhl; Leonardo Aguilar; Steve M.J. Janssen; Benjamin Gelbart; Patrícia Arriaga; Jan Antfolk; Katarina Zvončáková; Linda H. Lidborg; Jorge Contreras-Garduño; Mikhail V. Kozlov; Taciano L. Milfont; Marco A.C. Varella; Valerija Križanić; Mahmoud Boussena; Tina Kavčič; Diana Ribeiro da Silva; Brahim Hamdaoui; Fatima Zahra Sahli; Karlijn Massar; Eliane Deschrijver; Tatsunori Ishii; Hakan Cetinkaya; Oksana Senyk; Farida Guemaz; Koen Ponnet; Yahya Don; Dušana Šakan; Gyesook Yoo; Ravit Nussinson; Joaquín Ungaretti; Ali R. Can; Izzet Duyar; Jiří Čeněk; Joao Carneiro; Norbert Meskó; Luca Kozma; Ellen K. Nyhus; Mona Vintila; Oulmann Zerhouni; Farid Pazhoohi; Maja Zupančič; Sinem Söylemez; Austin H.E. Wang; Marietta Papadatou-Pastou; Irena Pavela Banai; Pavol Prokop; Mohd Sofian Omar Fauzee; Reza Afhami; Jean C. Natividade; Roberto Baiocco; Mara Morelli; Toivo Aavik; Ezgi Toplu-Demirtaş; Singha Tulyakul; Anna Wlodarczyk; Razieh Chegeni; Anabela C. Santos; Dmitry Grigoryev; Dmitrii Dubrov; Dimitri Chubinidze; Gözde Ikizer; Nana Burduli; Johanna Czamanski-Cohen; Rizwana Amin; Petros Roussos; Evgeniya Hristova; Rūta Sargautytė; Ekaterine Pirtskhalava; Tenuunjargal Avirmed; Arooj Najmussaqib; Abdelilah Charyate; Shagufta Batool; Tatiana Volkodav; Yoshihiko Kunisato; Yuki Yamada; Asako Toyama; Mariia Perun; Seda Dural; Tetyana Mandzyk; Anna Studzinska; Ognen Spasovski; Felipe E. García; Caterina Grano; Merve Boğa; Mehmet Koyuncu; Sangeeta Singh; Ju Hee Park; Derya Atamtürk; Samuel Lins; Martin Pírko; David Lacko; Balazs Aczel; Ferenc Kocsor; Ádám Putz; Tobias Otterbring; Pavol Kačmár; Efisio Manunta; Théo Besson; Nasim Ghahraman Moharrampour; Çağlar Solak; Bojana M. Dinić; Ignacio Estevan; Merve Topcu Bulut; Nicolas Kervyn; Moises Mebarak; Jackson G. Lu; Nejc Plohl; Bojan Musil; Adil Samekin; Kirill G. Miroshnik; Clément Cornec; Isabella Giammusso; Ulf Dietrich Reips; Maria Rosa Miccoli; Miriam Parise; Sabrina Stöckli; Tiago Marot; Sibele D. Aquino; Amanda Londero-Santos; Antonio Chirumbolo; Aybegum Memisoglu-Sanli; Jaroslava V. Valentova; Cemre Karaarslan; Ivana Hromatko; Kevin Sevag Kertechian; Ogeday Çoker; Matheus F. Ribeiro; Carlota Batres; Ilker Dalgar; Stephanie J. Eder; Katarina Mišetić; Marios Argyrides; Vita Mikuličiūtė; Silvia Mari; Elisabeth Oberzaucher; Kathrin Masuch; Alan D.A. Mattiassi; Salma S. Omar; Elena Piccinelli; Eda Ermagan Caglar; Diogo Lamela; David A. Frederick; Aleksander Kobylarek; Ma Criselda T. Pacquing; Marc Eric S. Reyes; Marcos Zumárraga-Espinosa; Feten Fekih-Romdhane; Talía Gómez Yepes; Edgardo Etchezahar; Katarzyna Galasinska; Jan P. Röer; Ayşegül Şahin; Miguel Landa-Blanco; Izuchukwu L.G. Ndukaihe; Arkadiusz Urbanek; Chee Seng Tan; Rita Castro; Ksenija Cunichina; Anna Krasnodębska; Daniel Conroy-Beam; Franciszek Ostaszewski; Izabela Chałatkiewicz; Beatriz Abad-Villaverde; Bastien Trémolière; Alexios Arvanitis; Gulmira T. Topanova; William J. Chopik; Grace Akello; Ariela F. Pagani; Silvia Donato; Peter Fedor; Tomasz Frackowiak; Simon Ozer; Marlon Mayorga-Lascano; Farah Khan; Maryanne L. Fisher; Princess Lovella G. Maturan; Tatiana Semenovskikh; Sanjana Dutt; William Tamayo-Agudelo; Gulnara Ismukhanova; Laith Al-Shawaf; Luisa Angelucci; Adam Bode; Sercan Balım; Jovi C. Dacanay; Chiemezie S. Atama; Kai A.D.Morgan Campbell; Tchilissila A. Simões; Barış Özener; Paula Błauciak; Filipe Prazeres

doi:10.1038/s41597-025-05365-2

Cross-cultural data on romantic love and mate preferences from 117,293 participants across 175 countries

Marta Kowal^*, Piotr Sorokowski, Biljana Gjoneska, Katarzyna Pisanski, Gerit Pfuhl, Leonardo Aguilar, Steve M.J. Janssen, Benjamin Gelbart, Patrícia Arriaga, Jan Antfolk, Katarina Zvončáková, Linda H. Lidborg, Jorge Contreras-Garduño, Mikhail V. Kozlov, Taciano L. Milfont, Marco A.C. Varella, Valerija Križanić, Mahmoud Boussena, Tina Kavčič, Diana Ribeiro da SilvaBrahim Hamdaoui, Fatima Zahra Sahli, Karlijn Massar, Eliane Deschrijver, Tatsunori Ishii, Hakan Cetinkaya, Oksana Senyk, Farida Guemaz, Koen Ponnet, Yahya Don, Dušana Šakan, Gyesook Yoo, Ravit Nussinson, Joaquín Ungaretti, Ali R. Can, Izzet Duyar, Jiří Čeněk, Joao Carneiro, Norbert Meskó, Luca Kozma, Ellen K. Nyhus, Mona Vintila, Oulmann Zerhouni, Farid Pazhoohi, Maja Zupančič, Sinem Söylemez, Austin H.E. Wang, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Irena Pavela Banai, Pavol Prokop, Mohd Sofian Omar Fauzee, Reza Afhami, Jean C. Natividade, Roberto Baiocco, Mara Morelli, Toivo Aavik, Ezgi Toplu-Demirtaş, Singha Tulyakul, Anna Wlodarczyk, Razieh Chegeni, Anabela C. Santos, Dmitry Grigoryev, Dmitrii Dubrov, Dimitri Chubinidze, Gözde Ikizer, Nana Burduli, Johanna Czamanski-Cohen, Rizwana Amin, Petros Roussos, Evgeniya Hristova, Rūta Sargautytė, Ekaterine Pirtskhalava, Tenuunjargal Avirmed, Arooj Najmussaqib, Abdelilah Charyate, Shagufta Batool, Tatiana Volkodav, Yoshihiko Kunisato, Yuki Yamada, Asako Toyama, Mariia Perun, Seda Dural, Tetyana Mandzyk, Anna Studzinska, Ognen Spasovski, Felipe E. García, Caterina Grano, Merve Boğa, Mehmet Koyuncu, Sangeeta Singh, Ju Hee Park, Derya Atamtürk, Samuel Lins, Martin Pírko, David Lacko, Balazs Aczel, Ferenc Kocsor, Ádám Putz, Tobias Otterbring, Pavol Kačmár, Efisio Manunta, Théo Besson, Nasim Ghahraman Moharrampour, Çağlar Solak, Bojana M. Dinić, Ignacio Estevan, Merve Topcu Bulut, Nicolas Kervyn, Moises Mebarak, Jackson G. Lu, Nejc Plohl, Bojan Musil, Adil Samekin, Kirill G. Miroshnik, Clément Cornec, Isabella Giammusso, Ulf Dietrich Reips, Maria Rosa Miccoli, Miriam Parise, Sabrina Stöckli, Tiago Marot, Sibele D. Aquino, Amanda Londero-Santos, Antonio Chirumbolo, Aybegum Memisoglu-Sanli, Jaroslava V. Valentova, Cemre Karaarslan, Ivana Hromatko, Kevin Sevag Kertechian, Ogeday Çoker, Matheus F. Ribeiro, Carlota Batres, Ilker Dalgar, Stephanie J. Eder, Katarina Mišetić, Marios Argyrides, Vita Mikuličiūtė, Silvia Mari, Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Kathrin Masuch, Alan D.A. Mattiassi, Salma S. Omar, Elena Piccinelli, Eda Ermagan Caglar, Diogo Lamela, David A. Frederick, Aleksander Kobylarek, Ma Criselda T. Pacquing, Marc Eric S. Reyes, Marcos Zumárraga-Espinosa, Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Talía Gómez Yepes, Edgardo Etchezahar, Katarzyna Galasinska, Jan P. Röer, Ayşegül Şahin, Miguel Landa-Blanco, Izuchukwu L.G. Ndukaihe, Arkadiusz Urbanek, Chee Seng Tan, Rita Castro, Ksenija Cunichina, Anna Krasnodębska, Daniel Conroy-Beam, Franciszek Ostaszewski, Izabela Chałatkiewicz, Beatriz Abad-Villaverde, Bastien Trémolière, Alexios Arvanitis, Gulmira T. Topanova, William J. Chopik, Grace Akello, Ariela F. Pagani, Silvia Donato, Peter Fedor, Tomasz Frackowiak, Simon Ozer, Marlon Mayorga-Lascano, Farah Khan, Maryanne L. Fisher, Princess Lovella G. Maturan, Tatiana Semenovskikh, Sanjana Dutt, William Tamayo-Agudelo, Gulnara Ismukhanova, Laith Al-Shawaf, Luisa Angelucci, Adam Bode, Sercan Balım, Jovi C. Dacanay, Chiemezie S. Atama, Kai A.D.Morgan Campbell, Tchilissila A. Simões, Barış Özener, Paula Błauciak, Filipe Prazeres

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Psychological studies on close relationships have often overlooked cultural diversity, dynamic processes, and potentially universal principles that shape intimate partnerships. To address the limited generalizability of previous research and advance our understanding of romantic love experiences, mate preferences, and physical attractiveness, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural survey study on these topics. A total of 404 researchers collected data in 45 languages from April to August 2021, involving 117,293 participants from 175 countries. Aside from standard demographic questions, the survey included valuable information on variables relevant to romantic relationships: intimate, passionate, and committed love within romantic relationships, physical-attractiveness enhancing behaviors, gender equality endorsement, collectivistic attitudes, personal history of pathogenic diseases, relationship quality, jealousy, personal involvement in sexual and/or emotional infidelity, relational mobility, mate preferences, and acceptance of sugar relationships. The resulting dataset provides a rich resource for investigating patterns within, and associations across, a broad range of variables relevant to romantic relationships, with extensive opportunities to analyze individual experiences worldwide.

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Número de artículo	1103
Publicación	Scientific data
Volumen	12
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05365-2
Estado	Publicada - dic. 2025
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Kowal, M., Sorokowski, P., Gjoneska, B., Pisanski, K., Pfuhl, G., Aguilar, L., Janssen, S. M. J., Gelbart, B., Arriaga, P., Antfolk, J., Zvončáková, K., Lidborg, L. H., Contreras-Garduño, J., Kozlov, M. V., Milfont, T. L., Varella, M. A. C., Križanić, V., Boussena, M., Kavčič, T., ... Prazeres, F. (2025). Cross-cultural data on romantic love and mate preferences from 117,293 participants across 175 countries. Scientific data, 12(1), Artículo 1103. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05365-2

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AU - Chegeni, Razieh

AU - Santos, Anabela C.

AU - Grigoryev, Dmitry

AU - Dubrov, Dmitrii

AU - Chubinidze, Dimitri

AU - Ikizer, Gözde

AU - Burduli, Nana

AU - Czamanski-Cohen, Johanna

AU - Amin, Rizwana

AU - Roussos, Petros

AU - Hristova, Evgeniya

AU - Sargautytė, Rūta

AU - Pirtskhalava, Ekaterine

AU - Avirmed, Tenuunjargal

AU - Najmussaqib, Arooj

AU - Charyate, Abdelilah

AU - Batool, Shagufta

AU - Volkodav, Tatiana

AU - Kunisato, Yoshihiko

AU - Yamada, Yuki

AU - Toyama, Asako

AU - Perun, Mariia

AU - Dural, Seda

AU - Mandzyk, Tetyana

AU - Studzinska, Anna

AU - Spasovski, Ognen

AU - García, Felipe E.

AU - Grano, Caterina

AU - Boğa, Merve

AU - Koyuncu, Mehmet

AU - Singh, Sangeeta

AU - Park, Ju Hee

AU - Atamtürk, Derya

AU - Lins, Samuel

AU - Pírko, Martin

AU - Lacko, David

AU - Aczel, Balazs

AU - Kocsor, Ferenc

AU - Putz, Ádám

AU - Otterbring, Tobias

AU - Kačmár, Pavol

AU - Manunta, Efisio

AU - Besson, Théo

AU - Moharrampour, Nasim Ghahraman

AU - Solak, Çağlar

AU - Dinić, Bojana M.

AU - Estevan, Ignacio

AU - Bulut, Merve Topcu

AU - Kervyn, Nicolas

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AU - Lu, Jackson G.

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AU - Ozer, Simon

AU - Mayorga-Lascano, Marlon

AU - Khan, Farah

AU - Fisher, Maryanne L.

AU - Maturan, Princess Lovella G.

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PY - 2025/12

Y1 - 2025/12

N2 - Psychological studies on close relationships have often overlooked cultural diversity, dynamic processes, and potentially universal principles that shape intimate partnerships. To address the limited generalizability of previous research and advance our understanding of romantic love experiences, mate preferences, and physical attractiveness, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural survey study on these topics. A total of 404 researchers collected data in 45 languages from April to August 2021, involving 117,293 participants from 175 countries. Aside from standard demographic questions, the survey included valuable information on variables relevant to romantic relationships: intimate, passionate, and committed love within romantic relationships, physical-attractiveness enhancing behaviors, gender equality endorsement, collectivistic attitudes, personal history of pathogenic diseases, relationship quality, jealousy, personal involvement in sexual and/or emotional infidelity, relational mobility, mate preferences, and acceptance of sugar relationships. The resulting dataset provides a rich resource for investigating patterns within, and associations across, a broad range of variables relevant to romantic relationships, with extensive opportunities to analyze individual experiences worldwide.

AB - Psychological studies on close relationships have often overlooked cultural diversity, dynamic processes, and potentially universal principles that shape intimate partnerships. To address the limited generalizability of previous research and advance our understanding of romantic love experiences, mate preferences, and physical attractiveness, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural survey study on these topics. A total of 404 researchers collected data in 45 languages from April to August 2021, involving 117,293 participants from 175 countries. Aside from standard demographic questions, the survey included valuable information on variables relevant to romantic relationships: intimate, passionate, and committed love within romantic relationships, physical-attractiveness enhancing behaviors, gender equality endorsement, collectivistic attitudes, personal history of pathogenic diseases, relationship quality, jealousy, personal involvement in sexual and/or emotional infidelity, relational mobility, mate preferences, and acceptance of sugar relationships. The resulting dataset provides a rich resource for investigating patterns within, and associations across, a broad range of variables relevant to romantic relationships, with extensive opportunities to analyze individual experiences worldwide.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105009914525

U2 - 10.1038/s41597-025-05365-2

DO - 10.1038/s41597-025-05365-2

M3 - Article

C2 - 40593913

AN - SCOPUS:105009914525

SN - 2052-4463

VL - 12

JO - Scientific data

JF - Scientific data

IS - 1

M1 - 1103

ER -