Scholars@Duke
Natalia Espinosa

Selected Publications

A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference matching.

Journal Article Journal of personality and social psychology · January 2025 Ideal partner preferences (i.e., ratings of the desirability of attributes like attractiveness or intelligence) are the source of numerous foundational findings in the interdisciplinary literature on human mating. Recently, research on the predictive valid ... Full text Cite

What elicits love and gratitude? a cross-cultural comparison between the U.S. China, and Chile

Journal Article Journal of Positive Psychology · January 1, 2025 Love and gratitude are key to human flourishing but have been predominantly studied in WEIRD populations, limiting our understanding. Here, we explored the culturally shared and distinct situations that give rise to love and gratitude. European American (N ... Full text Cite