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men s Mate Value correlates with a less restricted sociosexual orientation a meta analysis
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2021Co-Authors: Steven Arnocky, Jessica Desrochers, Amanda Rotella, Graham Albert, Carolyn R Hodgessimeon, Ashley Locke, Jacob Belanger, Danielle Lynch, Benjamin KellyAbstract:Men, relative to women, can benefit their total reproductive success by engaging in short-term pluralistic mating. Yet not all men enact such a mating strategy. It has previously been hypothesized that high Mate Value men should be most likely to adopt a short-term mating strategy, with this prediction being firmly grounded in some important mid-level evolutionary psychological theories. Yet evidence to support such a link has been mixed. This paper presents a comprehensive meta-analysis of 33 published and unpublished studies (N = 5928) in which we find that that self-reported Mate Value accounts for roughly 6% of variance in men’s sociosexual orientation. The meta-analysis provides evidence that men’s self-perceived Mate Value positively predicts their tendency to engage in short-term mating, but that the total effect size is small.
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jealousy mediates the link between women s upward physical appearance comparison and Mate retention behavior
Evolutionary Psychology, 2020Co-Authors: Steven Arnocky, Ashley LockeAbstract:Previous research has demonstrated that men's lower Mate Value predicts increased perpetration of Mate retention, especially with respect to cost inflicting behaviors. It is less clear if lower Mate Value women, including those who perceive themselves as being less physically attractive than their intrasexual rivals, also perpetrate more Mate retention. Moreover, it is presently unclear whether romantic jealousy, which has been proposed to motivate compensatory behavior in response to evidence that a Valued mating relationship is threatened, might mediate this link. The present study addressed this gap in knowledge by examining whether women's overall self-perceived Mate Value and upward physical appearance comparisons predicted their cost inflicting and benefit provisioning Mate retention, as well as whether jealousy mediated these relationships. In a sample of 167 heterosexual undergraduate women, results found self-perceived Mate Value predicted greater benefit provisioning Mate retention, but not romantic jealousy. In contrast, jealousy mediated the relationship between women's upward physical appearance comparisons and both their cost-inflicting and benefit-provisioning Mate retention, supporting the hypothesis that jealousy in the face of unfavorable social comparisons on important Mate Value traits can promote action aimed at retaining a Mate.
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Mate-Value Moderates the Relationship between Intrasexual Competitiveness and Successful Mate Poaching
Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2020Co-Authors: Steven ArnockyAbstract:Mate poaching has long been described as an intrasexually competitive tactic for acquiring new mating opportunities (Buss, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54 (4), 616–628, 1988 ); one that confers increased risk or rejection, retaliation, or reputational damage, and thus should be most successful when implemented by those who are most desirable to members of the opposite sex. From this perspective, Mate poaching should be predicted by trait differences in intrasexual competitiveness, and this link should be moderated by one’s own Mate Value as an index of the ability to succeed in poaching efforts and to bear the burden of the associated risks. Undergraduate men and women ( N = 292) completed measures of intrasexual competitiveness, Mate Value, and Mate poaching (successful and unsuccessful). Results showed that intrasexual competitiveness predicted a greater number of both successful and unsuccessful poaching attempts. Mate Value moderated this relationship for successful, but not unsuccessful, Mate poaching, such that individuals who were both intrasexually competitive and high in Mate Value reported the greatest success. Results suggest that Mate poaching is an intrasexually competitive mating tactic; the success of which depends in part upon the Mate Value of the perpetrator.
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self perceived Mate Value facial attractiveness and Mate preferences do desirable men want it all
Evolutionary Psychology, 2018Co-Authors: Steven ArnockyAbstract:Ten years ago, Buss and Shackelford demonstrated that high Mate Value (i.e., physically attractive) women held more discerning Mate preferences relative to lower Mate Value women. Since then, researchers have begun to consider the equally important role of men's sexual selectivity in human Mate choice. Yet, little research has focused on whether high Mate Value men are similarly choosy in their Mate preferences. In a sample of 139 undergraduate men, relationships between self-perceived Mate Value as well as female-rated facial attractiveness were examined in relation to men's expressed Mate preferences. Results showed that self-perceived Mate Value was unrelated to men's facial attractiveness as rated by women. Men who believed they were of high Mate Value were more likely than lower Mate Value men to prefer to marry at a younger age; to have a spouse who was younger than them; and to have a partner who was sociable, ambitious, high in social status, with good financial prospects, a desire for children, health, good looks, and mutual attraction. Objective male facial attractiveness was generally unrelated to heightened Mate preferences, with the exception of heightened preference for similar religious background and good physical health. Findings suggest that men who perceive themselves as high in overall Mate Value are selective in their Mate choice in a manner similar to high Mate Value women.
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threatening men s Mate Value influences aggression toward an intrasexual rival the moderating role of narcissism
American Journal of Psychology, 2016Co-Authors: Brian M Bird, Justin M Carre, Jennifer M Knack, Steven ArnockyAbstract:Correlational research has linked low Mate Value (MV)--one's worth as a mating partner to members of the opposite sex--with aggression in men. In 2 experiments, we examined the effects of self-perceived MV on men's reported willingness to aggress directly toward a hypothetical Mate poacher (Experiment 1, N = 60) and observable aggression toward a same-sex rival in a laboratory paradigm (Experiment 2, N = 54). In both experiments, the roles of narcissism in moderating the effect of MV condition on subsequent aggression were examined. RESULTS of Experiment 1 indicated that men randomly assigned to the low MV condition were significantly more willing to report aggressive intention than men in the high MV condition. This relationship was moderated by narcissism such that men in the low MV condition who were also high in narcissism were the most likely to aggress. RESULTS of Experiment 2 similarly showed that men in the low MV condition relative to the high MV condition aggressed more toward a same-sex rival when they were high in narcissism. These findings support evolutionary hypotheses surrounding the importance of self-perceived MV in directing aggressive mating efforts, as situated in the framework of threatened egotism. Language: en
David M Buss - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Mate competition in pakistan Mate Value Mate retention and competitor derogation
Personality and Individual Differences, 2018Co-Authors: Nabiha Chaudhary, Laith Alshawaf, David M BussAbstract:Abstract Mate retention and competitor derogation are two key components of human Mate competition. In a conservative, religious sample from Pakistan (N = 255), the current study investigated evolutionarily informed hypotheses regarding a) sex differences in competitor derogation and Mate retention, b) the relationship between Mate Value and Mate retention tactics, and c) the role religiosity plays in predicting the type of Mate retention behaviors. The results indicated that across both sexes, higher Mate Value predicted greater use of Mate retention tactics and also predicted overall competitor derogation. Men more than women used tactics of resource display, violence, intra-sexual threats, sexual inducements, derogation of Mate, possessive ornamentation, and monopolization. The results also showed that greater religiosity predicted increased use of cost-inflicting Mate retention behaviors among men and decreased use among women. To our knowledge, the current study is the first to investigate mating psychology in Pakistan from an evolutionary perspective.
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what predicts romantic relationship satisfaction and Mate retention intensity Mate preference fulfillment or Mate Value discrepancies
Evolution and Human Behavior, 2016Co-Authors: Daniel Conroybeam, Cari D. Goetz, David M BussAbstract:Abstract We test a novel evolutionary hypothesis predicting that Mate Value discrepancies, but not Mate preference fulfillment, will regulate relationship satisfaction. Across Study 1 ( n =259) and Study 2 ( n =300), we employed new Euclidean measures able to capture preference fulfillment and compute estiMates of Mate Value discrepancies. Relationship satisfaction was not related to how well Mates fulfilled their partner's preferences. Mate Value discrepancies, in contrast, interacted to predict relationship satisfaction: relationship satisfaction declined for participants whose Mates were less desirable than their alternatives, but only for participants who were higher in Mate Value than their Mates. Additionally, these satisfaction differences mediated a relationship between Mate Value discrepancies and Mate retention behavior. This mediation pathway is unique to satisfaction; the same pathway was not observed through trust, a functionally distinct relationship affective state. Study 3 ( n =301) addressed a methodological limitation of Studies 1 and 2. We replicated the Mate Value discrepancy interaction to predict relationship satisfaction, but found an effect of ideal preference fulfillment on relationship satisfaction. These results provide evidence that Mate preferences have important, functionally specific effects on within-relationship processes through contributing to two independent discrepancy variables: partner–self and partner-potential Mate Value discrepancies. They also largely contravene the hypothesis that Mate preference fulfillment is the key to relationship satisfaction.
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attractive women want it all good genes economic investment parenting proclivities and emotional commitment
Evolutionary Psychology, 2008Co-Authors: David M Buss, Todd K ShackelfordAbstract:The current research tests the hypothesis that women have an evolved Mate Value calibration adaptation that functions to raise or lower their standards in a long-term Mate according to their own ma...
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sexual strategies theory an evolutionary perspective on human mating
Psychological Review, 1993Co-Authors: David M Buss, David P SchmittAbstract: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.
Pamela C Regan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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what if you can t get what you want willingness to compromise ideal Mate selection standards as a function of sex Mate Value and relationship context
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1998Co-Authors: Pamela C ReganAbstract:The majority of Mate selection research focuses on what people want, rather than what they will settle for, in a partner. The present study explored the extent to which sex, self perceived Mate Value, and relationship context moderate ideal partner preferences and the willingness to compromise ideal standards. When considering a casual sex partner, men and women emphasized and were unwilling to compromise on physical attractiveness; when considering a romantic partner, both emphasized and refused to compromise on interpersonal responsiveness. Sex differences primarily occurred in the context of short-term mating, with women ideally seeking an older more interpersonally responsive sex partner and demonstrating less willingness than men to compromise their standards on a number of dimensions. Men's Mate Value largely was disassociated with their selection criteria; women's Mate Value correlated positively with their ideal preferences across many characteristics and in both mating contexts.
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minimum Mate selection standards as a function of perceived Mate Value relationship context and gender
Journal of psychology & human sexuality, 1998Co-Authors: Pamela C ReganAbstract:Abstract The present study explored minimum Mate selection standards (i.e., the lowest levels of various characteristics that an individual must possess in order to be considered a potential partner) and the extent to which gender, self-perceived Mate Value, and relationship context moderate minimum standards. Men and women were more selective (expressed higher minimum standards) as the mating context shifted from short- to long-term, for a number of partner attributes. As expected, gender moderated these effects; women were more selective than men when considering a potential short-term (but not long-term) Mate. Men's self-perceived Mate Value largely was unassociated with their selection standards; however, women's Mate Value correlated positively with their minimum criteria, across a variety of characteristics and for a short-term sex and a long-term romantic partner. As expected, gender differences in the strength of these correlations were greater in the short-term than in the long-term mating context.
John Archer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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control tactics and partner violence in heterosexual relationships
Evolution and Human Behavior, 2009Co-Authors: Nicola Grahamkevan, John ArcherAbstract:This study investigated sex-specific predictors of violent and nonviolent Mate guarding used by men (n=399) and women (n=951) in heterosexual relationships, using both self-reports and reports on partners. We found, contrary to some previous evolutionary assumptions, that men and women showed similar degrees of controlling behavior, and that this predicted physical aggression to partners in both sexes. We also predicted from evolutionarily based studies that men's and women's control and aggression would vary as a function of female fecundity and Mate Value (relative to peer group and to partner). Fecundity was associated with men's and women's controlling behavior, but not their physical aggression: relationships where the woman was fecund showed higher rates of control. According to partners' reports, men and women who had lower Mate Values showed more controlling behavior and (to a lesser extent) more physical aggression. There was no support for the prediction that higher Mate-Value partners would be guarded more than lower Mate-Value ones. The following limitations are discussed: the sample and method of data collection, and the lack of information on the women's hormonal status.
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the relation between Mate Value entitlement physical aggression size and strength among a sample of young indian men
Evolution and Human Behavior, 2009Co-Authors: John Archer, Vanlal ThanzamiAbstract:This study extends previous ones showing a link between direct aggression and size and strength among young men, which were informed by the evolutionary concept of resource holding power (RHP), using measures of size, strength, flexed bicep circumference and hand grip strength among a sample of young men from the Indian state of Mizoram. The study also examined the relation of these variables to reactive and proactive aggression, to entitlement to resources (related to the threatened egotism theory of aggression) and Mate Value (central to a modular theory of self-esteem and more broadly to sexual selection). The findings showed only a weak association between size and strength and direct aggression, which was also significantly correlated with entitlement and Mate Value, as predicted. Mate Value also showed some association with size and strength. Reactive but not proactive aggression was linked with entitlement, but neither was associated with size or strength. In a regression analysis, controlling for age, Mate Value was the strongest predictor of direct aggression, but both weight (highly correlated with strength) and entitlement were marginally significant predictors independent of Mate Value. The findings provide support for the view that young males who view themselves as more attractive to women are more aggressive, independently of the impact on aggressiveness of RHP or entitlement to resources.
Manpal Singh Bhogal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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understanding digital dating abuse from an evolutionary perspective further evidence for the role of Mate Value discrepancy
Personality and Individual Differences, 2019Co-Authors: Manpal Singh Bhogal, Courtney Rhead, Courtney TudorAbstract:Abstract Decades of research have been dedicated to understanding intiMate partner violence. A recent form of intiMate partner violence is digital dating abuse, which involves electronic intrusion in romantic relationships. Previous research has focused on the effects of digital dating abuse on victims, yet little research has focused on the factors which drive the perpetration of digital dating abuse, especially from an evolutionary perspective. Recent research has focused on whether mating-relevant factors such as Mate Value discrepancy predict the perpetration of digital dating abuse, suggesting digital dating abuse could be a Mate retention tactic. Here, we replicated and extended that finding in two independent samples (study 1, n = 177; Study 2, n = 134) by showing large Mate Value discrepancies positively predict digital dating abuse, therefore suggesting that digital dating abuse could be a contemporary cost-inflicting Mate retention strategy. We also explored whether intrasexual competition, self-esteem, and experience of previous infidelity predicted the perpetration of digital dating abuse, finding no significant relationships. These findings from two studies, replicate, extend, and provide further support that digital dating abuse is a Mate retention tactic. This research advances our understanding of digital dating abuse from an evolutionary psychological perspective.
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Mate Value discrepancy and attachment anxiety predict the perpetration of digital dating abuse
Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2019Co-Authors: Manpal Singh Bhogal, Jessica M HowmanAbstract:Research suggests that individual differences in attachment style predict the perpetration of digital dating abuse. In addition to attachment style, no research, to our knowledge, has explored the role of Mate Value in the perpetration of digital dating abuse. In this paper, we argue that digital dating abuse is a contemporary cost-inflicting Mate retention behaviour, where larger Mate Value discrepancies between partners are associated with higher levels of digital dating abuse (n = 167). As expected, high Mate Value discrepancy and attachment anxiety were associated with high levels of digital dating abuse. We provide novel support for the relationship between Mate Value discrepancy and digital dating abuse. Our findings provide support for additional, unexplored factors which lead to the perpetration of digital dating abuse.
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Do the dark triad and self-perceived Mate Value predict intention to Mate poach?
Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 2016Co-Authors: Ezgi Erik, Manpal Singh BhogalAbstract:Although much research has been conducted on the psychology of Mate poaching, little research has been conducted on the factors that predict intention to Mate poach, from the perspective of the poacher. Recent research has paid some attention to the role of the dark triads in Mate poaching. However, very little research has been conducted investigating the relationship between self-perceived Mate Value and intention to Mate poach. We explored the role of the dark triads (Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy), self-perceived Mate Value, and gender on one’s intention to Mate poach in 81 participants from Coventry University. We find that the only dark triad to significantly predict intention to Mate poach was psychopathy, suggesting those who scored higher on psychopathic traits were more likely to Mate poach. Furthermore, we find that self-perceived Mate Value significantly predicted intention to Mate poach, suggesting those who perceive themselves as having a high Mate Value, are likely to engage in Mate poaching, which is a novel finding.
