From: The Atlantic
Three Rules for a Lasting Happy Marriage
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The notion that romantic attraction is purely a function of social and cultural forces is a common assumption. These factors do matter, but evidence from psychology and biology suggests that our amorous impulses owe more to nature than to nurture. One expert on the matter is David M. Buss, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas. In his influential 1994 book, The Evolution of Desire, based on his study of some 10,000 people from cultures all over the world, Buss reported that, initially at least, heterosexual males are most attracted to fertility cues in females (attractiveness, health, youth), whereas females are attracted to resource cues (status, ambition, wealth).
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