In the article, the researchers were trying to challenge the sexual strategy theory. It appears that sexual strategy theory considers that different sexes have different preferences when choosing a partner, in the case of long-term and short-term relationships. The initial hypothesis was that both boys and girls believed that attractiveness was important. Girls would be more inclined to date because of their social status and boys would be just the opposite. They also expected that social status would only become important when the person is attractive and that social status would be important even if the person is attractive, not for girls. The last thing that was tested was, according to Ha (2009), "the potential moderating effects of perceived partner value on adolescents' desire to date an attractive person." Still according to Ha (2009), “they hypothesized that boys and girls' preference for attractiveness and high social status would be independent of their own perceived value as a partner. » We know that the information used to arrive at the theory is collected using surveys. ...