Foodie Calls: When Women Date Men for a Free Meal (Rather Than a Relationship)

Collisson, Brian; Howell, Jennifer L.; Harig, Trista

doi:10.1177/1948550619856308

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“…Some contemporary women engage in foodie calls, that is, going on a date in order to get a free meal. A study on foodie calls found that 33% of women had engaged in a foodie call, and some engaged in them frequently or very frequently (Collisson, Howell, & Harig, 2020). We are not aware of any studies on foodie calls in men, and suspect that few men would go on dates in hopes of a free meal.…”

Section: Other Non-bodily Traits and Sex Differences In The Importanmentioning

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Physical cues of partner quality

Stephen¹,

Luoto²

2021

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The dominant evolutionary theory of sexual attraction posits that attraction serves as a psychological mechanism for identifying healthy, fertile, and appropriate mates. According to this theory, humans and animals display cues that reflect their mate quality and are perceived as attractive by potential mates. There is evidence for such valid cues in human faces, bodies, and in non-bodily traits, which include adornments and items that signal provisioning ability, creativity, artistic skills, or conspicuous consumption. In this chapter, we discuss the evidence for the existence of these facial, bodily, and non-bodily cues, and for their role in communicating aspects of partner quality, including health, fertility, developmental stability, genetic quality, and potential for parental investment. We further discuss sex differences in the kinds of physical cues that men and women rely on in mate choice. We conclude by noting how central and evolutionarily important physical cues are even in contemporary sexual selection, and how the importance of physical cues of partner quality manifests in evolutionarily novel inventions such as physical self-enhancements, social media, and online dating.

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Physical cues of partner quality

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Luoto²

2021

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“…Dark Triad traits were found to be positively correlated with various dimensions of short-term mating but not with longterm mating (Jonason et al, 2009). In a recent study, Collisson et al (2019) examined a rather peculiar behavior: the researchers wanted to know how frequently women engaged in foodie calls (i.e., how often they set up a date with someone for a free meal), and what personality traits were associated with an accepting attitude toward such dates. The results revealed that 23-33% of the female participants had at least once engaged in a foodie call.…”

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Providing Sexual Companionship for Resources: Development, Validation, and Personality Correlates of the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Young Women and Men Scale (ASR-YWMS)

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A sugar relationship is a transactional sexual relationship in which a younger partner (sugar baby/boy) offers companionship and sexual services to a much older partner (sugar daddy/mommy) in return for material compensation. One aim of the present study was to develop an attitude scale assessing young women's and men's acceptance of sugar relationships. Another aim was to explore the possible associations of the acceptance of sugar relationships with psychological functioning in an intimate partner relationship and in a sexual relationship and with certain socially undesirable personality traits. Two online studies were conducted with a total number of 2052 participants (1879 women; age = 18-28 years). The results show that the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Young Women and Men Scale (ASR-YWMS) is a reliable and valid measure of young people's attitude toward sugar relationships. The studies revealed that young women's and men's accepting attitude toward sugar relationships was positively associated with unrestricted sociosexuality, a game-playing love style (Ludus), selffocused sexual motivation (Study 1; N = 319; 272 women and 47 men), and with socially undesirable traits such as Machiavellianism, subclinical psychopathy, and a borderline personality organization (Study 2; N = 1733; 1607 women and 126 men). These findings suggest that a relatively high level of acceptance of sugar relationships is part of a mating strategy focused on opportunities of maximizing resources. This utilitarian, risktaking and exploitative attitude is characteristic to a fast life history strategy, and it is a fundamental organizing principle of psychological and sexual functioning in intimate partner relationships.

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“…Instead, it was the overall constellation of Dark Tetrad traits—or dark personality—that had the largest association with relationship interference. These data contribute to a growing literature emphasizing the shared variance in the Dark Tetrad (or, typically, Dark Triad) traits over the individual traits (e.g., Collisson et al, 2020; Johnason et al, 2019; Żemojtel-Piotrowska et al, 2020). This suggests that dark, antisocial, and disagreeable behaviors may not be driven by specific dark traits, but rather by possessing high levels of all of the traits.…”

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“…Figure 1 shows our statistical model. Consistent with other work on dark personality and antisocial behavior (e.g., Collisson et al, 2020), we used a bifactor model to capture the Dark Tetrad. That is, we loaded each of the items in the Dark Tetrad onto their own individual constructs (sadism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy) as well as onto a broader Dark Tetrad factor designed to capture the overall dark personality.…”

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Meddling friends and family: Dark Tetrad traits predict interference in disliked couples’ romantic relationships

Collisson

Howell

Monleon

2021

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Certain disapproving friends and family may interfere in others’ romantic relationships by undermining commitment processes. In the current study, we assessed whether friends and family members’ scores on the Dark Tetrad, a constellation of socially aversive personality traits including narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism, predict relationship interference. In Study 1, 206 people selected a friend who was currently in a romantic relationship they disliked or disapproved of. They then indicated how often they interfered in the disliked couple’s relationship, completed measures of the Dark Tetrad, and additional measures of interest (e.g., gender, closeness to the target of interference). In Study 2, 180 people selected a family member who was currently or formerly in a disliked relationship, before completing the same measures. In both studies, overall dark personality and closeness to the friend or family member positively correlated with relationship interference. Additionally, when controlling for overall dark personality and the other Dark Tetrad traits, sadism specifically predicted interference with friends’ relationships; high narcissism and, surprisingly, low Machiavellianism predicted interference with family members’ relationships. Implications for dark personality traits and relationships are discussed.

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Foodie Calls: When Women Date Men for a Free Meal (Rather Than a Relationship)

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

Physical cues of partner quality

Physical cues of partner quality

Providing Sexual Companionship for Resources: Development, Validation, and Personality Correlates of the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Young Women and Men Scale (ASR-YWMS)

Meddling friends and family: Dark Tetrad traits predict interference in disliked couples’ romantic relationships

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