Pamela C. Regan's The Mating Game: A Primer on Love, Sex, and Marriage, Third Edition is
the only introductory text about human mating relationships aimed specifically at a university …

Although widely cited as strong evidence that sexual selection has shaped human facial-
attractiveness judgments, findings suggesting that women's preferences for masculine …

This chapter focuses on (1) outlining an adaptationist perspective on physical
attractiveness,(2) presenting the basic questions that this perspective leads us to ask,(3) …

We propose that human self-domestication favored the emergence of a less aggressive
phenotype in our species, more precisely phenotype prone to replace (reactive) physical …

Mate choice, and sex differences in romantic behaviours, represented one of the first major
applications of evolutionary biology to human behaviour. This paper reviews Darwinian …

Human facial structures communicate health, thus indicating one's suitability as a potential
mating partner. However, facial structures also communicate information about one's …

In nonhuman species, increasing the proportion of potential mates in the local population
often increases preferences for high-quality mates, while increasing the proportion of …

From an evolutionary psychology perspective, it is likely our species comes equipped with
specialized psychological adaptations that influence the differing ways men and women …

Previous research suggests that sociosexual orientation and relationship status each predict
women's preferences for masculine men. However, if partnered women's preferences …

The dual-sexual strategy hypothesis claims that women select different men for short-and
long-term relationships. In short-term relationships, women are attracted to good genes (eg …