Psychology - Buss study - Procedures

Procedures

• Total number of particpants equal to 10047.
• The samples came from 33 countries.
• Six contienents and five islands were represented.
• The samples varied in size from 55 in Iran, to 1491 in the US mainland sample.
• The age of particpants in the sample groups ranged from 16.96 years in New Zealand, to 28.71 in West Germany. The mean age of the overall sample was 23.05 years.
• The sampling technique used in:
  • Estonia, one sub-example consisted of couple applying for a marriage lincense.
  • Venezuela, the sample consisted of every fifth household in a series of neighbourhoods that varied…