Cassidy Morrison For The Daily Mail<\/a> <\/p>\n Published:<\/span> 18:56 EDT, 12 June 2023 <\/time> <\/span> | Updated:<\/span> 19:32 EDT, 12 June 2023 <\/time> <\/span> <\/p>\n
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When it comes to selecting the perfect partner, some people have a strong preference for height.<\/p>\n
But short women beware – as tall men are more likely to see you as a one-night stand, a study suggests.<\/p>\n
Researchers have discovered tall men gravitate towards shorter women for romantic flings rather than everlasting love.<\/p>\n
An international team of researchers recruited more than 500 people from the general population as part of their study.<\/p>\n
Female participants were shown two sheets of paper that featured five different minimalistic drawings of men ranging in heigh from five-foot-five to six-foot-one.<\/p>\n
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Short women beware – as tall men are more likely to see you as a one-night stand, a study suggests (Stock Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Men received similar drawings featuring women ranging in height from five-foot-five to five-foot-eight.<\/p>\n
Asked their ideal heigh in a women for ‘uncommitted’ short-term relationships, men typically chose women shorter than them.<\/p>\n
But they tended to gravitate toward women who more closely measured their own height for long-term relationships.<\/p>\n
The researchers, from universities in Cuba, Canada, Norway and the United States, said their findings are indicative of ‘assortative mating preference’.<\/p>\n
Assortative mating is a form of sexual selection based on certain observable criteria that closely mirror theirs including relative height, social status, personality, and risk of passing along diseases to offspring.<\/p>\n
This means that tall men are more likely to marry or remain in committed relationships with taller women, the team said.<\/p>\n
Women, meanwhile, preferred men taller than them on average regardless of the nature of their relationship.<\/p>\n
The authors of the study, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, said: ‘Our results further corroborate a positive relationship between participants’ own heights and their mate height preferences, that is, positive assortative preferences for height.<\/p>\n
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Women, meanwhile, preferred men taller than them on average regardless of the nature of their relationship (Stock Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
‘However, assortative height preferences were qualified by relationship-context. Taller men preferred relatively shorter women for short-term relationships than for long-term relationships.’<\/p>\n
A separate study published in 2013 in the journal Personality and Individual Differences reported that women care more about having a taller man than men care about dating a shorter woman.<\/p>\n
Women preferred and were most satisfied with greater height differences than men, about eight inches, whereas men were satisfied with being just three inches taller.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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