Fundamentals of Human Mating Strategies

Schmitt, David P.

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“…Since the trade-off between long-and short-term mate choice strategies (i.e. sex with or without commitment) has been a central issue in evolutionary psychology (Schmitt, 2005a), sociosexuality and its objective measurement have become important for this discipline.…”

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The Hungarian Version of Sociosexual Orientation Inventory Revised (SOI-R): Sex and Age Differences

2014

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Affectionless, uncommitted sexual behavior was formerly interpreted in psychology as a function of individual decisions, a kind of intrapsychic variable. Sociosexual orientation is directly linked to reproductive success, so among other issues, measuring sociosexual orientation has been of great interest for evolutionary scientists. Most recently Penke and Asendorpf (2008) prepared the revised version of Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI-R), which has been used in dozens of studies since its publication. The aim of the current study was to test the usability of the Hungarian version and to analyze the factor structure and internal reliability of the inventory. It was translated and the structure was analyzed on a Hungarian sample (n = 1345, females = 832, males = 513; age: M = 26.37 years, SD = 8.75, range: 16-74). Our results show that the Hungarian version has the same three-factor structure as proposed by Penke and Asendorpf (2008) and is a reliable inventory for further studies of sociosexuality. The sociosexual scores of the two sexes statistically differ in the expected direction: women show lower SOI scores than men. Sociosexual desire decreases with age, whereas older participants report less restricted sociosexual behavior. Sociosexual attitude is uneffected by age. Results are discussed from both evolutionary and life-span developmental points of view.

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The Hungarian Version of Sociosexual Orientation Inventory Revised (SOI-R): Sex and Age Differences

2014

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“…The first is for men and women to be adaptively designed to manifest relatively uniform sex differences across cultures. Evolutionary theories such as Sexual Selection Theory (Darwin 1871) and Parental Investment Theory (Trivers 1972) suggest that, as mammals, men and women likely pursue somewhat different mating strategies and at least some of the adaptive design of men's and women's evolved mating psychologies will be robustly manifested across cultures (Lippa 2005;Schmitt 2005a). According to Lippa (2009), sex differences in sex drive demonstrate a particularly persistent and uniform magnitude across all cultures and are entirely unrelated to factors such as degree of sex role socialization and sociopolitical gender equity.…”

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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 Role Socialization

Schmitt

2014

Evolutionary Psychology

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“…In particular, our approach is based upon the recognition of a fundamental asymmetry between the sexes as to the role of sexual vs. emotional signals in promoting, in a given subject, a short-vs. long-term mating orientation-of course concurrently with a rich constellation of other kinds of factors [3]. The dynamic interaction schemes that we have introduced are original and are not found in the existing literature.…”

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Tie-Up Cycles in Long-Term Mating. Part II: Fictional Narratives and the Social Cognition of Mating

Basili

Sacco

2017

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Abstract:In the first part of this paper, we have introduced a novel theoretical approach to mating dynamics, known as Tie-Up Theory (TU). In this second part, in the context of the bio-cultural approach to literature, that assigns to fictional narratives an important valence of social cognition, we apply the conceptual tools presented in the first part to the analysis of mating-related interaction dynamics in some blockbuster Hollywood movies from WWII to today. The interaction dynamics envisioned by our theory accurately reflect, to a significant level of detail, the narrative development of the movies under exam from the viewpoint of the mating dynamics of the couple of main characters, accounting for the specific reasons that lead them to react to certain situations via certain behaviors, and for the reasons why such behaviors lead to certain outcomes. Our analysis seems thus to bring some further legitimacy to the bio-cultural foundation of the narrative structure of the movies that we analyze, and moreover to the idea that it is possible to 'inquire' characters about their choices according to the narratological-experimental lines suggested by some proponents of the bio-cultural approach.Keywords: bio-cultural approach; fictional narratives; mating; Tie-Up Cycle; ways; interaction diagrams Because authors of fiction are free to construct narrative and characters unencumbered by the irrelevant detail that makes it hard to pierce real-life emotional events, we can read plays and novels as the closest thing to a controlled experiment involving high-stakes human emotions.Elster [1] (pp. 107-108)

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Fundamentals of Human Mating Strategies

Cited by 50 publications

References 148 publications

The Hungarian Version of Sociosexual Orientation Inventory Revised (SOI-R): Sex and Age Differences

The Hungarian Version of Sociosexual Orientation Inventory Revised (SOI-R): Sex and Age Differences

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 Role Socialization

Tie-Up Cycles in Long-Term Mating. Part II: Fictional Narratives and the Social Cognition of Mating

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