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Big Five Traits Related to Short-Term Mating: From Personality to Promiscuity across 46 Nations
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As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, 13,243 participants from 46 nations responded to self-report measures of personality and mating behavior. Several traits showed consistent links with short-term mating. Extraversion positively correlated with interest in short-term mating, unrestricted sociosexuality, having engaged in short-term mate poaching attempts, having succumbed to short-term poaching attempts of others, and lacking relationship exclusivity. Low levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness also related to short-term mating, especially with extra-pair mating. Neuroticism and openness were associated with short-term mating as well, but these links were less consistent across sex and nation. Nation-level links between personality and sexuality replicated within-region findings, such as the strong association between national extraversion and national sociosexuality. Discussion focuses on the origins of personality-sexuality links and their implications across nations.
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- Schmitt, D. P., & Shackelford, T. K.
- Venue
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2008-04-01
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1474-7049 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2186967997
- Cited by
- 190
- References
- 12
- FWCI
- 9.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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