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Sexual strategies theory: an evolutionary perspective on human mating
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This article proposes a contextual-evolutionary theory of human mating strategies. Both men and women are hypothesized to have evolved distinct psychological mechanisms that underlie short-term and long-term strategies. Men and women confront different adaptive problems in short-term as opposed to long-term mating contexts. Consequently, different mate preferences become activated from their strategic repertoires. Nine key hypotheses and 22 predictions from Sexual Strategies Theory are outlined and tested empirically. Adaptive problems sensitive to context include sexual accessibility, fertility assessment, commitment seeking and avoidance, immediate and enduring resource procurement, paternity certainty, assessment of mate value, and parental investment. Discussion summarizes 6 additional sources of behavioral data, outlines adaptive problems common to both sexes, and suggests additional contexts likely to cause shifts in mating strategy.
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“However, unlike prairie voles, which display a consistently strong partner preference, marmosets display a flexible pattern of sociosexual preferences (Smith et al., 2010; Cavanaugh et al., 2014), similar to those displayed by humans (Buss and Schmitt, 1993).”
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“However, unlike prairie voles, which display consistently strong sociosexual preferences for a long-term partner over an opposite-sex stranger (Wang and Aragona, 2004), marmosets display a flexible pattern of sociosexual preferences, similar to those displayed by humans (Buss and Schmitt, 1993), including a willingness to interact with a potential mate in the absence of a pair-mate (Evans, 1983;”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Buss, D. M., & Schmitt, D. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Review
- Published
- 1993
- Volume
- 100
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 204-232
- ISSN
- 0033-295X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1471
- OpenAlex
- W1971871412
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- 4,253
- References
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- FWCI
- 63.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Review (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01mh044206-03)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH44206)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Keywords
- sexual strategies theory, human mating strategies, short-term mating, long-term mating, mate preferences, fertility assessment, commitment, resource procurement, paternity certainty, mate value, parental investment, sex differences, evolutionary psychology
- MeSH terms
- Biological Evolution, Female, Gender Identity, Humans, Male, Problem Solving, Sexual Behavior, Social Environment, Social Values, Parenting
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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