Reproductive strategies and relationship preferences associated with prestigious and dominant men

Kruger, Daniel J.; Fitzgerald, Carey J.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.10.022

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“…This pattern suggests that affiliative humour may be a cue to good long-term partner characteristics, as we hypothesised, and Study 2 demonstrated that affiliative humour was associated with cooperativeness. The results therefore support the assertion that the attractiveness of humour styles may follow the same pattern established by KRUGER and FITZGERALD (2011) that dominance and cooperativeness (or potentially prestige) are differentially preferred.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…KRUGER and FITZGERALD (2011) found that dominant personality traits (not including sense of humour) are mainly attractive for short-term relationships. The same study also found that men high in prestigiousness were more attractive for long-term relationships, suggesting men higher in socially desirable traits, such as affiliation and cooperativeness, are considered better partners.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The attractiveness of humour types in personal advertisements: Affiliative and aggressive humour are differentially preferred in long-term versus short-term partners

Cowan

Little²

2013

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

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Abstract:A good sense of humour is commonly offered in written dating advertisements demonstrating that humour is an important quality to have when attracting a mate, but not all humour is the same. This study used vignettes in the style of a personal advertisement to measure the attractiveness of affiliative and aggressive humour in different relationship contexts. The results demonstrated that affiliative humour was more attractive than aggressive humour in both relationship contexts but especially for long-term relationships. The results follow the pattern expected of affiliative humour styles being more attractive for long-term relationships due to being linked to qualities that may be important in long-term relationships such as likelihood of cooperation, and aggressive humour styles not being favoured for long-term relationships due to being linked to qualities that may be detrimental in long-term relationships. A follow-up study confirmed that different humour styles were associated with different perceived personality traits. Together these findings suggest that humour may be used to indicate an individual's personality and that the attractiveness of a good sense of humour depends on both the type of humour and the type of relationship being sought.

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confidence: 82%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The attractiveness of humour types in personal advertisements: Affiliative and aggressive humour are differentially preferred in long-term versus short-term partners

Cowan

Little²

2013

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

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“…Indeed, under conditions of uncertainty, it is likely that additional desires to affiliate are aroused (Murray et al, 2006) that can lead to more behavioral attraction toward those who are seen as likely to accept him/her. This pattern might best be understood by considering evolutionary explanations for why women engage in one-night stands (with someone they might meet at a discotheque), encounters in which the possible benefits (in the form of a quality genetic contribution) outweigh the costs of potentially raising a child alone (e.g., Kruger & Fitzgerald, 2011). Put another way, affiliation with another person about whom one is uncertain is more risky and should only be pursued when the possible benefits are great.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Further Exploring the Relation Between Uncertainty and Attraction

Montoya

Faiella

Lynch

et al. 2015

PSYCHOLOGIA -An International Journal of Psychological Sciences

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This research explored competing predictions for the relation between uncertainty and interpersonal attraction. Two studies investigated whether uncertainty regarding another person's interest is associated with an increase or decrease in attraction. Study 1 revealed that when participants evaluated people whose expressed attraction was either certain or uncertain, participants experienced more liking for those who were associated with certainty. In Study 2, compared to a control condition, uncertainty produced more attraction but the greater attraction was mediated by a desire to reduce uncertainty. We conclude by proposing an explanation for why different research paradigms have produced different conclusions regarding uncertainty and the situations necessary for uncertainty to produce interpersonal attraction. ey wordss: K uncertainty, attraction, initial interactions, reciprocity of liking effect

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“…In modern humans in industrialized societies, women at peak fertility in their menstrual cycle are more attracted to charismatic, dominant men (Durante et al, 2012). Men often over-estimate preference by women for male-dominated relationships (Kruger and Fitzgerald, 2011). Men who use short-term mating strategies are more likely to be considered physically attractive and socially dominant but lack traits associated with long-term partnership and fatherhood (Kruger and Fitzgerald, 2011; Durante et al, 2012).…”

Section: Changes and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Men often over-estimate preference by women for male-dominated relationships (Kruger and Fitzgerald, 2011). Men who use short-term mating strategies are more likely to be considered physically attractive and socially dominant but lack traits associated with long-term partnership and fatherhood (Kruger and Fitzgerald, 2011; Durante et al, 2012). Men who use long-term mating strategies tend to be less dominant, charismatic, and physically attractive but possess traits associated with long-term partnership and parenting (Kruger and Fitzgerald, 2011; Durante et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

A Theory for the Origin of Human Menopause

2017

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A complete and compelling evolutionary explanation for the origin of human menopause is wanting. Menopause onset is defined clinically as the final menses, confirmed after 1 year without menstruation. The theory proposed herein explains at multiple levels – ultimately genetic but involving (1) behavioral, (2) life history, and (3) social changes – the origin and evolution of menopause in women. Individuals in Lower Paleolithic human populations were characterized by short lifespans with diminished late-age survival and fertility, similar to contemporary chimpanzees, and thence were subject to three changes. (1) A mating behavior change was established in which only young women reproduced, thereby rendering as effectively neutral female-specific late-onset fertility-diminishing mutations, which accumulated subsequently. (2) A lifespan increase was manifested adaptively, revealing the reproductive senescence phenotype encoded in late-onset fertility-diminishing mutation genotypes, which, heretofore, had been unexpressed in the shorter lifespan. (3) A social interaction change emerged exaptively, when older non-reproductive women exclusively started assisting in rearing grandchildren rather than giving birth to and caring for their own children, ultimately leading to menstrual cycle cessation. The changes associate in a one-to-one manner with existing, non-mutually exclusive hypotheses for the origin of human menopause. Evidence for each hypothesis and its associated change having occurred are reviewed, and the hypotheses are combined in a synthetic theory for the origin of human menopause. The new theory simultaneously addresses the main theoretical problem with each hypothesis and yields predictions for future testing.

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Reproductive strategies and relationship preferences associated with prestigious and dominant men

Cited by 29 publications

References 27 publications

The attractiveness of humour types in personal advertisements: Affiliative and aggressive humour are differentially preferred in long-term versus short-term partners

The attractiveness of humour types in personal advertisements: Affiliative and aggressive humour are differentially preferred in long-term versus short-term partners

Further Exploring the Relation Between Uncertainty and Attraction

A Theory for the Origin of Human Menopause

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