Women who are afraid of violence within partnerships prefer more feminine men

Our total sample was 120 adult (older than 17 years) heterosexual women, with 30 women from each location. Due to the fact that younger women (of reproductive age) are at higher risk of being the targets of violence, we limited our analyses to women younger than 41 years of age. This left a sample of 83 women (mean age ± SD = 26.7 ± 6.01). In order to avoid participants’ bias, blinded methods were used when collecting all data.