In the article the researchers were trying to challenge the Sexual Strategies Theory. It seems that sexual strategies theory predicts that different genders have different preferences when choosing a mate, in the case of long-term and short-term relationships. Initially the hypothesis was that both boys and girls thought attractiveness was important. Girls would be more likely to date due to social status, while boys would be the exact opposite. They also expected that social status would only become important when the person was attractive, and social status would be important regardless of whether the person was attractive to girls or not. The last thing that was tested was, according to Ha (2009), “the potential moderating effects of self-perceived mate value on adolescents' desire to date an attractive person.” Also according to Ha (2009) "They hypothesized that boys' and girls' preference for attractiveness and high social status would be independent of the perceived value of the mate." It is known that the information used to obtain the result of the theory is collected using surveys ...