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Peter K Jonason - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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be yourself authenticity as a long term Mating Strategy
Personality and Individual Differences, 2019Co-Authors: Lawrence Josephs, Peter K Jonason, Benjamin Warach, Kirby L Goldin, Bernard S Gorman, Sanya Masroor, Nixza LebronAbstract:Abstract We hypothesize that “being yourself” is the dating Strategy of individuals that have successful long-term relationships. Study 1 examined the relationships between authenticity and personality variables that predict relationship outcome. Study 2 employed a two-part acts nomination design to enumerate “being yourself” while dating and to examine personality correlates of “being yourself”. Study 3 explored whether individuals being themselves are attractive and if being yourself results in assortative Mating with authentic individuals. Study 4 determined the effect of “be yourself” mindset priming on “be yourself” dating behavior. Study 1 found that authenticity is associated with emotional intelligence and positive relational outcomes. Study 2 found that “being yourself” dating behavior is associated with authenticity, secure attachment, and low narcissism. Study 3 found that “be yourself” dating behavior is attractive and facilitates assortative Mating with authentic individuals. Study 4 found that rejection sensitive individuals are more likely to engage in “be yourself” dating behavior when made to feel safe to be themselves. “Be yourself” is the dating Strategy that authentic individuals use to facilitate successful long-term relationships.
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the exploitive Mating Strategy of the dark triad traits tests of rape enabling attitudes
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2017Co-Authors: Peter K Jonason, Mary Girgis, Josephine MilnehomeAbstract:The Dark Triad traits have been repeatedly labeled as facilitating an exploitive Mating Strategy. However, various researchers have repeatedly conflated short-term Mating or casual sex with an exploitive Mating Strategy. In this study using Mechanical Turk participants (N = 252; 142 men, 110 women), we provided a better test of just how sexually exploitive those high on the Dark Triad traits might be by examining how the traits related to rape-enabling attitudes. We examined how each trait may facilitate rape, whether these associations were robust to partialing the variance associated with the Big Five traits and similar in men and women, and showed that one reason why men may be more likely to rape than women is they are characterized by the Dark Triad traits more than women are. In so doing, we test the confluence model of rape that asserts that personality traits similar to the Dark Triad traits act as one pathway to rape.
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Avoiding entangling commitments: Tactics for implementing a short-term Mating Strategy
Personality and Individual Differences, 2012Co-Authors: Peter K Jonason, David M. BussAbstract:The successful pursuit of a short-term Mating Strategy requires avoiding entangling commitments or unwanted, encumbering relationships. Two studies, based on an act-nomination and reported act performance methodologies, were conducted on samples of American college students to explore how individuals avoid entangling commitments. In Study 1 (N = 102) we identified the acts individuals use to avoid entangling commitments in the context of short-term Mating. In Study 2 (N = 298) we examined reported usage of these tactics, and identified correlations with personality traits previously implicated in the pursuit of a short-term Mating Strategy (e.g., narcissism, mate-value). Personality traits such as the Dark Triad and sociosexuality, as well as mate-value, were positively correlated with tactics used to avoid entangling commitments. Results document how short-term Mating strategists solve the problem of avoiding entangling commitments, reveal sex differences previously undiscovered, and highlight personality characteristics linked to solving this adaptive problem.
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the dark triad facilitating a short term Mating Strategy in men
European Journal of Personality, 2009Co-Authors: Peter K Jonason, Norman P Li, Gregory D. Webster, David P. SchmittAbstract:This survey (N = 224) found that characteristics collectively known as the Dark Triad (i.e. narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism) were correlated with various dimensions of short-term Mating but not long-term Mating. The link between the Dark Triad and short-term Mating was stronger for men than for women. The Dark Triad partially mediated the sex difference in short-term Mating behaviour. Findings are consistent with a view that the Dark Triad facilitates an exploitative, short-term Mating Strategy in men. Possible implications, including that Dark Triad traits represent a bundle of individual differences that promote a reproductively adaptive Strategy are discussed. Findings are discussed in the broad context of how an evolutionary approach to personality psychology can enhance our understanding of individual differences. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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The dark triad: Facilitating a short‐term Mating Strategy in men
European Journal of Personality, 2009Co-Authors: Peter K Jonason, Norman P Li, Gregory D. Webster, David P. SchmittAbstract:This survey (N = 224) found that characteristics collectively known as the Dark Triad (i.e. narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism) were correlated with various dimensions of short-term Mating but not long-term Mating. The link between the Dark Triad and short-term Mating was stronger for men than for women. The Dark Triad partially mediated the sex difference in short-term Mating behaviour. Findings are consistent with a view that the Dark Triad facilitates an exploitative, short-term Mating Strategy in men. Possible implications, including that Dark Triad traits represent a bundle of individual differences that promote a reproductively adaptive Strategy are discussed. Findings are discussed in the broad context of how an evolutionary approach to personality psychology can enhance our understanding of individual differences. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
David P. Schmitt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the dark triad facilitating a short term Mating Strategy in men
European Journal of Personality, 2009Co-Authors: Peter K Jonason, Norman P Li, Gregory D. Webster, David P. SchmittAbstract:This survey (N = 224) found that characteristics collectively known as the Dark Triad (i.e. narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism) were correlated with various dimensions of short-term Mating but not long-term Mating. The link between the Dark Triad and short-term Mating was stronger for men than for women. The Dark Triad partially mediated the sex difference in short-term Mating behaviour. Findings are consistent with a view that the Dark Triad facilitates an exploitative, short-term Mating Strategy in men. Possible implications, including that Dark Triad traits represent a bundle of individual differences that promote a reproductively adaptive Strategy are discussed. Findings are discussed in the broad context of how an evolutionary approach to personality psychology can enhance our understanding of individual differences. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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The dark triad: Facilitating a short‐term Mating Strategy in men
European Journal of Personality, 2009Co-Authors: Peter K Jonason, Norman P Li, Gregory D. Webster, David P. SchmittAbstract:This survey (N = 224) found that characteristics collectively known as the Dark Triad (i.e. narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism) were correlated with various dimensions of short-term Mating but not long-term Mating. The link between the Dark Triad and short-term Mating was stronger for men than for women. The Dark Triad partially mediated the sex difference in short-term Mating behaviour. Findings are consistent with a view that the Dark Triad facilitates an exploitative, short-term Mating Strategy in men. Possible implications, including that Dark Triad traits represent a bundle of individual differences that promote a reproductively adaptive Strategy are discussed. Findings are discussed in the broad context of how an evolutionary approach to personality psychology can enhance our understanding of individual differences. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
David M. Buss - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Gossip as an intrasexual competition Strategy: Predicting information sharing from potential mate versus competitor Mating strategies
Evolution and Human Behavior, 2019Co-Authors: Joy P Wyckoff, Kelly Asao, David M. BussAbstract:Abstract We propose that one function of competitive information sharing is success in intrasexual competition. We posit that the decision to share potentially damaging information about a competitor is sensitive to the probability of that information diminishing a competitor's mate value. According to Sexual Strategies Theory ( Buss & Schmitt, 1993 ), men and women have evolved different psychological mechanisms underlying short-term and long-term Mating strategies, and display somewhat different (although partially overlapping) preferences for long-term and short-term mate choice. In two experiments, we utilized a 2 × 2 factorial within-subjects design to manipulate a potential mate's Mating Strategy (long-term vs. short-term) and characteristics of a rival indicative of the rival's Mating Strategy (long-term vs. short-term). We predicted that participants would be more likely to share information about a competitor when that information mismatched the potential mate's preferences, thereby decreasing the perceived mate value of the competitor. Using Linear Mixed Effects Modeling, Study 1 found that men and women reported that they would be more likely to share that a competitor was promiscuous when the potential mate was interested in a long-term mate than when the potential mate was interested in a short-term mate. Study 2 demonstrated similar findings for ratings of effectiveness of sharing the information. Taken together, the two studies support the central hypothesis about the role of negative information sharing in intrasexual competition and the context-specificity of its deployment depending on Mating Strategy pursued.
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sexual regret in us and norway effects of culture and individual differences in religiosity and Mating Strategy
Personality and Individual Differences, 2017Co-Authors: Mons Bendixen, David M. Buss, Kelly Asao, Joy P Wyckoff, Leif Edward Ottesen KennairAbstract:Abstract Sexual regret was investigated across two disparate cultures: Norway (N = 853), a highly secular and sexually liberal culture, and the United States (N = 466), a more religious and more sexually conservative culture. Sex differences, individual differences in preferred Mating Strategy, religiosity, and cultural differences in sexual regret were analyzed. Men were significantly less likely to regret having had casual sex than women and were significantly more likely to regret passing up casual sexual opportunities than women. Participants who were more religious regretted having had casual sex more and regretted passing up casual sex less. Sexually unrestricted participants were less likely to regret having had casual sex and were more likely to regret passing up casual sex. Finally, North Americans and Norwegians did not differ significantly in overall amount of sexual regret nor in patterns of sex differences in sexual regret. Discussion focuses the robustness of sex differences across cultures, the importance of explaining individual differences within cultures, and on future directions for cross-cultural research.
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Sex and Mating Strategy Impact the 13 Basic Reasons for Having Sex
Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2015Co-Authors: Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Trond Viggo Grøntvedt, Mehmet Mehmetoglu, Carin Perilloux, David M. BussAbstract:There is a large number of varied reasons for having sexual intercourse, ranging from sexual joy and pleasure to less frequent reasons such as wanting to hurt a person or feeling obliged to have sex with someone. The current paper investigated to what degree the reasons for having sex found by Meston and Buss are predicted systematically and independently by sexual strategies theory. The contribution of the paper is threefold: (1) the first reproduction of the factor structure found in the original study, (2) the reproduction in a more gender-egalitarian population investigates claims from social role theory, and (3) a novel set of contributions as preferred Mating Strategy and sex of respondents interact to predict reasons for having sex. We tested our predictions in a sample of 1372 students. The original factor structure was reproduced. Sex differences were abundant and showed mostly support for sexual strategies theory. Mating context also influenced reasons for having sexual intercourse in accordance with sexual strategies theory, rather than social role theory. The results are discussed with regard to both social role theory and sexual strategies theory, and the impact of studying reasons for sex in an egalitarian society.
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Disgust and Mating Strategy
Evolution and Human Behavior, 2015Co-Authors: Laith Al-shawaf, David M.g. Lewis, David M. BussAbstract:Abstract An evolutionary task analysis predicts a connection between disgust and human Mating, two important but currently disconnected areas of psychology. Because short-term Mating strategies involve sex with multiple partners after brief temporal durations, such a Strategy should be difficult to pursue in conjunction with high levels of sexual disgust. On this basis, we hypothesized that individuals with a stronger proclivity for short-term Mating would exhibit dispositionally lower levels of sexual disgust. Two independent studies provided strong support for this hypothesis: among both men and women, an orientation toward short-term Mating was associated with reduced levels of sexual disgust, but not with suppressed moral or pathogen disgust. Our discussion highlights an unexpected finding and suggests important questions for future research.
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Mating Strategy, disgust, and food neophobia
Appetite, 2014Co-Authors: Laith Al-shawaf, David M.g. Lewis, Thomas R. Alley, David M. BussAbstract:Food neophobia and disgust are commonly thought to be linked, but this hypothesis is typically implicitly assumed rather than directly tested. Evidence for the connection has been based on conceptually and empirically unsound measures of disgust, unpublished research, and indirect findings. This study (N = 283) provides the first direct evidence of a relationship between trait-level food neophobia and trait-level pathogen disgust. Unexpectedly, we also found that food neophobia varies as a function of sexual disgust and is linked to Mating Strategy. Using an evolutionary framework, we propose a novel hypothesis that may account for these previously undiscovered findings: the food neophilia as Mating display hypothesis. Our discussion centers on future research directions for discriminatively testing this novel hypothesis.
Norman P Li - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the dark triad facilitating a short term Mating Strategy in men
European Journal of Personality, 2009Co-Authors: Peter K Jonason, Norman P Li, Gregory D. Webster, David P. SchmittAbstract:This survey (N = 224) found that characteristics collectively known as the Dark Triad (i.e. narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism) were correlated with various dimensions of short-term Mating but not long-term Mating. The link between the Dark Triad and short-term Mating was stronger for men than for women. The Dark Triad partially mediated the sex difference in short-term Mating behaviour. Findings are consistent with a view that the Dark Triad facilitates an exploitative, short-term Mating Strategy in men. Possible implications, including that Dark Triad traits represent a bundle of individual differences that promote a reproductively adaptive Strategy are discussed. Findings are discussed in the broad context of how an evolutionary approach to personality psychology can enhance our understanding of individual differences. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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The dark triad: Facilitating a short‐term Mating Strategy in men
European Journal of Personality, 2009Co-Authors: Peter K Jonason, Norman P Li, Gregory D. Webster, David P. SchmittAbstract:This survey (N = 224) found that characteristics collectively known as the Dark Triad (i.e. narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism) were correlated with various dimensions of short-term Mating but not long-term Mating. The link between the Dark Triad and short-term Mating was stronger for men than for women. The Dark Triad partially mediated the sex difference in short-term Mating behaviour. Findings are consistent with a view that the Dark Triad facilitates an exploitative, short-term Mating Strategy in men. Possible implications, including that Dark Triad traits represent a bundle of individual differences that promote a reproductively adaptive Strategy are discussed. Findings are discussed in the broad context of how an evolutionary approach to personality psychology can enhance our understanding of individual differences. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Gregory D. Webster - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the dark triad facilitating a short term Mating Strategy in men
European Journal of Personality, 2009Co-Authors: Peter K Jonason, Norman P Li, Gregory D. Webster, David P. SchmittAbstract:This survey (N = 224) found that characteristics collectively known as the Dark Triad (i.e. narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism) were correlated with various dimensions of short-term Mating but not long-term Mating. The link between the Dark Triad and short-term Mating was stronger for men than for women. The Dark Triad partially mediated the sex difference in short-term Mating behaviour. Findings are consistent with a view that the Dark Triad facilitates an exploitative, short-term Mating Strategy in men. Possible implications, including that Dark Triad traits represent a bundle of individual differences that promote a reproductively adaptive Strategy are discussed. Findings are discussed in the broad context of how an evolutionary approach to personality psychology can enhance our understanding of individual differences. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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The dark triad: Facilitating a short‐term Mating Strategy in men
European Journal of Personality, 2009Co-Authors: Peter K Jonason, Norman P Li, Gregory D. Webster, David P. SchmittAbstract:This survey (N = 224) found that characteristics collectively known as the Dark Triad (i.e. narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism) were correlated with various dimensions of short-term Mating but not long-term Mating. The link between the Dark Triad and short-term Mating was stronger for men than for women. The Dark Triad partially mediated the sex difference in short-term Mating behaviour. Findings are consistent with a view that the Dark Triad facilitates an exploitative, short-term Mating Strategy in men. Possible implications, including that Dark Triad traits represent a bundle of individual differences that promote a reproductively adaptive Strategy are discussed. Findings are discussed in the broad context of how an evolutionary approach to personality psychology can enhance our understanding of individual differences. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
