Daniel Conroy-Beam
Biographic Data
| ID | 160735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Conroy-Beam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Conroy-Beam |
| SIGNATURE | CONROY-BEAM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Preferences and Polyamory
Although a large body of research has been devoted to investigating human mate preferences, much of this research focuses exclusively on monogamous relationships. While monogamy is a prevalent mating system, concurrent, non-monogamous mating has also been common both throughout human history and across the ethnographic record. Here, we seek to address this gap in the literature by exploring ideal preferences for two concurrent romantic partners a…
The function of love
Mating with Multi-Armed Bandits
Mate choice requires navigating an exploration-exploitation trade-off. Successful mate choice requires choosing partners who have preferred qualities; but time spent determining one partner’s qualities could have been spent exploring for potentially superior alternatives. Here I argue that this dilemma can be modeled in a reinforcement learning framework as a multi-armed bandit problem. Moreover, using agent-based models and a sample of k = 522 r…
Religious signaling and prosociality
Disqualifiers or preferences? How humans incorporate dealbreakers into mate choice
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context
Parental influence over mate choice and marriage is a norm across many cultures and throughout human history; however, more attention has been given to preferences of the mating individuals than to the preferences of parents selecting a son- or daughter-in-law. Using data collected in Nepal, a culture with a tradition of arranged marriages, we compare the preferences of unmarried adults and parents of unmarried adults using a budget allocation ta…
Disgust in the mating context – choosing the best and the least bad self-presentation option in a date simulation game
Sex and sexual orientation influence self-presentation in a dating context. • Men would rather manifest pathogenically disgusting behaviours. • Women would rather manifest morally disgusting behaviours. • Women would rather manifest artistic abilities. • Men would rather manifest kindness. In order to achieve interpersonal goals, people manipulate their self-image: they manifest their most favourable traits and avoid exhibiting the most aversive …
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community
What is a mate preference? Probing the computational format of mate preferences using couple simulation
Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness
People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from mating market and parasite stress perspectives, in a large cross-cultural sample. We also test hypoth…
Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships
Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual…
Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries
Considerable research has examined human mate preferences across cultures, finding universal sex differences in preferences for attractiveness and resources as well as sources of systematic cultural variation. Two competing perspectives—an evolutionary psychological perspective and a biosocial role perspective—offer alternative explanations for these findings. However, the original data on which each perspective relies are decades old, and the li…
First tests of Euclidean preference integration in friendship
Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation
Euclidean distances discriminatively predict short-term and long-term attraction to potential mates
What predicts romantic relationship satisfaction and mate retention intensity
Mate Preferences
Do mate preferences influence actual mating decisions? Evidence from computer simulations and three studies of mated couples
Evolutionary research continues to discover new features of human mate preferences, but the downstream consequences of these preferences for mate selection have been insufficiently explored. Some have inferred that stated preferences have few behavioral consequences given seemingly weak effects of preferences in predicting mating outcomes. Here we test this inference with data from simulated mating markets as well as from real-world couples. We g…
Do mate preferences influence actual mating decisions? Evidence from computer simulations and three studies of mated couples
Evolutionary research continues to discover new features of human mate preferences, but the downstream consequences of these preferences for mate selection have been insufficiently explored. Some have inferred that stated preferences have few behavioral consequences given seemingly weak effects of preferences in predicting mating outcomes. Here we test this inference with data from simulated mating markets as well as from real-world couples. We g…
The function of love
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
What predicts romantic relationship satisfaction and mate retention intensity
Mate Preferences
Do mate preferences influence actual mating decisions? Evidence from computer simulations and three studies of mated couples
Evolutionary research continues to discover new features of human mate preferences, but the downstream consequences of these preferences for mate selection have been insufficiently explored. Some have inferred that stated preferences have few behavioral consequences given seemingly weak effects of preferences in predicting mating outcomes. Here we test this inference with data from simulated mating markets as well as from real-world couples. We g…
Euclidean distances discriminatively predict short-term and long-term attraction to potential mates
Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation
Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries
Considerable research has examined human mate preferences across cultures, finding universal sex differences in preferences for attractiveness and resources as well as sources of systematic cultural variation. Two competing perspectives—an evolutionary psychological perspective and a biosocial role perspective—offer alternative explanations for these findings. However, the original data on which each perspective relies are decades old, and the li…
First tests of Euclidean preference integration in friendship
Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships
Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual…
What is a mate preference? Probing the computational format of mate preferences using couple simulation
Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness
People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from mating market and parasite stress perspectives, in a large cross-cultural sample. We also test hypoth…
Modeling mate choice in a small-scale community
Mating with Multi-Armed Bandits
Mate choice requires navigating an exploration-exploitation trade-off. Successful mate choice requires choosing partners who have preferred qualities; but time spent determining one partner’s qualities could have been spent exploring for potentially superior alternatives. Here I argue that this dilemma can be modeled in a reinforcement learning framework as a multi-armed bandit problem. Moreover, using agent-based models and a sample of k = 522 r…
Religious signaling and prosociality
Disqualifiers or preferences? How humans incorporate dealbreakers into mate choice
Offspring and parent preferences for a spouse or in-law in an arranged marriage context
Parental influence over mate choice and marriage is a norm across many cultures and throughout human history; however, more attention has been given to preferences of the mating individuals than to the preferences of parents selecting a son- or daughter-in-law. Using data collected in Nepal, a culture with a tradition of arranged marriages, we compare the preferences of unmarried adults and parents of unmarried adults using a budget allocation ta…
Disgust in the mating context – choosing the best and the least bad self-presentation option in a date simulation game
Sex and sexual orientation influence self-presentation in a dating context. • Men would rather manifest pathogenically disgusting behaviours. • Women would rather manifest morally disgusting behaviours. • Women would rather manifest artistic abilities. • Men would rather manifest kindness. In order to achieve interpersonal goals, people manipulate their self-image: they manifest their most favourable traits and avoid exhibiting the most aversive …
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also…
The function of love
Preferences and Polyamory
Although a large body of research has been devoted to investigating human mate preferences, much of this research focuses exclusively on monogamous relationships. While monogamy is a prevalent mating system, concurrent, non-monogamous mating has also been common both throughout human history and across the ethnographic record. Here, we seek to address this gap in the literature by exploring ideal preferences for two concurrent romantic partners a…
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Biology (12 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (10 works) · Mating (10 works) · Mate choice (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Marriage and Sexual Relationships (5 works)