Fundamentals of human mating strategies

DP Schmitt - The handbook of evolutionary psychology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews cross‐species and cross‐cultural evidence regarding the mating
strategies and specialized mating psychologies that may be fundamental to humans …

What can cross-cultural correlations teach us about human nature?

TV Pollet, JM Tybur, WE Frankenhuis, IJ Rickard - Human Nature, 2014 - Springer
Many recent evolutionary psychology and human behavioral ecology studies have tested
hypotheses by examining correlations between variables measured at a group level (eg …

The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex …

DP Schmitt - The evolution of sexuality, 2015 - Springer
Psychologists have uncovered dozens of ways men and women differ in affect, behavior,
and cognition. Social role theorists assume that men's and women's psychological …

A multivariate analysis of women's mating strategies and sexual selection on men's facial morphology

TR Clarkson, MJ Sidari, R Sains… - Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The strength and direction of sexual selection via female choice on masculine facial traits in
men is a paradox in human mate choice research. While masculinity may communicate …

Local mating markets in humans and non-human animals

R Noë - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2017 - Springer
In biology, the term 'mating market'has been fashionable for a few decades only, but sexual
selection theory was implicitly based on economic principles from the start. I regard mating …

Good genes, good providers, and good fathers: Economic development involved in how women select a mate.

HJ Lu, XQ Zhu, L Chang - Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Men's mate values are defined based on three broad categories—good genes, good
providers, both of which are selected early across the animal kingdom, and good fathers that …

Cross-cultural variation in men's preference for sexual dimorphism in women's faces

UM Marcinkowska, MV Kozlov, H Cai… - Biology …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Both attractiveness judgements and mate preferences vary considerably cross-culturally. We
investigated whether men's preference for femininity in women's faces varies between 28 …

Body height, immunity, facial and vocal attractiveness in young men

I Skrinda, T Krama, S Kecko, FR Moore, A Kaasik… - …, 2014 - Springer
Health, facial and vocal attributes and body height of men may affect a diverse range of
social outcomes such as attractiveness to potential mates and competition for resources …

Variation in women's preferences regarding male facial masculinity is better explained by genetic differences than by previously identified context-dependent effects

BP Zietsch, AJ Lee, JM Sherlock… - Psychological …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Women's preferences for masculine versus feminine male faces are highly variable.
According to a dominant theory in evolutionary psychology, this variability results from …

Do prevailing environmental factors influence human preferences for facial morphology?

BJW Dixson, AC Little, HGW Dixson… - Behavioral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Prevailing environmental factors influence preferences for attractive traits across many
species. In humans, debate surrounds the role of environmental pathogens and economic …