Cross-cultural data on romantic love and mate preferences from 117,293 participants across 175 countries, 2021

Detailed description of the dataset can be found in: Kowal et al., 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05365-2)
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In total, we collected 119,781 responses. Excluding data from those who did not consent to participate in the study (n = 639), who previewed (n = 4) or tested the survey (n = 549) but did not complete it, who mistakenly doubled their submission (n = 21), who were recruited by one team member who collected data before asking their local IRB for approval, which violated the local IRB’s rules, and thus was asked to withdraw the data (n = 244), and who failed the attention check (n = 1031) resulted in a final dataset of 117,293 participants from 175 countries. Out of these, 71,361 participants (61%) from 158 countries completed the whole survey, whereas 86,966 (74%) from 165 countries completed at least half of the survey.