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Muggleton, Naomi K. and Fincher, Corey L. (2017) Unrestricted sexuality promotes distinctive short- and long-term mate preferences in women. Personality and Individual Differences, 111 . pp. 169-173. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.01.054 ISSN 0191-8869.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.01.054
Abstract
The dual-sexual strategy hypothesis claims that women select different men for short- and long-term relationships. In short-term relationships, women are attracted to good genes (e.g., masculinity, attractiveness); in long-term relationships, material traits (e.g., good income, patient) are favoured. A potential predictor of women's mating strategy is sociosexuality, a measure of an individual's willingness to engage in casual, uncommitted sex. We asked whether women high in sociosexuality (i.e., unrestricted sexuality) would demonstrate greater distinctiveness between short- and long-term mate preferences. In an online study, participants (N = 459) from India and the USA were apportioned a ‘mate budget’ to construct their ideal short- and long-term partners. Mate Dollars could be spent on either genetic or material traits. As expected, genetic traits were favoured for short-term relationships; material traits were favoured for long-term relationships. However, women with a more restricted sexuality preferred short-term mates who closely resembled their long-term preferences. Women from the USA (with typically less restricted sexuality) showed more distinctive preferences than in India (with typically more restricted sexuality). Thus, a woman's sociosexuality influences the distinctiveness of her short- and long-term mate preferences.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Mate selection -- United States -- Psychological aspects, Mate selection -- India -- Psychological aspects, Man-woman relationships -- United States, Man-woman relationships -- India, Women -- Sexual behavior -- United States, Women -- Sexual behavior -- India | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Personality and Individual Differences | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0191-8869 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 June 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 111 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 169-173 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.paid.2017.01.054 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 February 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 September 2018 |
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