Assortative mate preferences for height across short-term and long-term relationship contexts in a cross-cultural sample

Height preferences reflecting positive assortative mating for height – wherein an individual’s own height positively predicts the preferred height of their mate – have been observed in several distinct human populations and are thought to increase reproductive fitness. However, the extent to which assortative preferences for height differ strategically for short-term versus long-term relationship partners, as they do for numerous other indices …