“Social-economic theory and short-term mate preferences: The effects of gender roles and socioeconomic status” provides meaningful insight into mating preferences of both males and females. Evita March of the School of Health Science at Federation University and Rachel Grieve of the Psychology Department at the University of Tasmania recruited 781 participants to complete a questionnaire on the subject of mate selection with the goal of examining significant differences between males and females when considering a short-term relationship (241). Their main thesis revolved around the fact that…