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Variability in mating strategies: do individual differences in dispositional traits predict sexual preferences?
(2012-02-27)
Prior research by evolutionary psychologists has examined dispositional predictors, such as personality, sociosexuality, life history, and attachment style, in relation to mating, yet only one study has examined how these ...
Judgements of cross-sex infidelity responses as a component of mating intelligence
(2007-04-26)
Mating Intelligence (MI; (Geher, 2005) is operationally defined as the ability to correctly guess the mating relevant thoughts of mates or potential mates. This study focuses on one specific aspect of MI, known as infidelity ...
Effortful or natural? Which athletic traits are most attractive?
(2015)
The current research sought to investigate the influence of athletic efforts on how one is
perceived as a potential short and long-term mate. When conscientiousness, which is the
ability to exert self-control in the ...
Friends, love, & tinder: an investigation of the effect of auditory social stimulation on sexual and romantic attraction toward potential mates
(2017-07)
Humans are social apes that adapted to social networks that were no larger than approximately 150 individuals (Dunbar, 1993). Today, the computer and internet provide humans the means to communicate with virtually anyone ...
I evolved this way: examining nonmonosexuality as an evolutionary adaptation
(2018-05)
The main evolutionary purpose of any living creature is to pass on its genes through reproduction, also referred to as reproductive success (Dawkins, 1976). Since successful reproduction requires the copulation of a male ...