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A Norwegian note on “sperm donor selection and the psychology of female mate choice”
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In this paper, the authors compare women's criteria for a long-term mate to those for a sperm donor in assisted reproduction via donor insemination, and find that women's choice criteria are similar to those of a mate.About:
This article is published in Evolution and Human Behavior.The article was published on 1997-03-01. It has received 20 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mate choice.read more
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Physical Attractiveness: An Adaptationist Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrate life history, evolutionary psychology, and human biology approaches to address the question of how and why our minds generate different levels of attraction to others, and identify different domains of social value for which attractiveness assessment evolved, and review evidence for some of the hypothesized attractiveness-assessment adaptations in those domains.
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The influence of infant facial cues on adoption preferences.
TL;DR: Four specific infant facial cues were investigated: resemblance, as a proxy for kinship, health, happiness, and cuteness, which predicted that these cues would influence feelings of parental care for both sexes, but that resemblance would be more important for men than women because of the importance of paternity uncertainty in the ancestral environment.
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Essentially biased: why people are fatalistic about genes
TL;DR: The authors argue that people are genetic essentialists, that is, they tend to think of genetic attributions as being immutable, of a specific etiology, natural, and dividing people into homogenous and discrete groups.
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The effect of infant fetal alcohol syndrome facial features on adoption preference
TL;DR: Cuteness/attractiveness was the best predictor of adoption likelihood and potential parents were more likely to adopt “normal” infants, and they rated the FAS infants as less attractive and less healthy.
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How are marketing strategies of genetic material used as a mechanism for biopolitical governmentality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the marketing strategy employed by Israeli sperm banks as sites for biopolitical governmentality of sperm consumers and provide evidence for the transfusion of militaristic Zionist ideology into sperm.
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Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes.
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that people are sometimes unaware of the existence of a stimulus that influenced a response, unaware of its existence, and unaware that the stimulus has affected the response.
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Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that females value cues to resource acquisition in potential mates more highly than males, while males valued earning capacity, ambition, industriousness, youth, physical attractiveness, and chastity.
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Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution, Physiology, and Psychology:
TL;DR: In species with internal female fertilization, males risk both lowered paternity probability and investment in rival gametes if their mates have sexual contact with other males as mentioned in this paper, and females of such spe...
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Pathogen prevalence and human mate preferences
TL;DR: The relationship between pathogen prevalence and the value people place on physical attractiveness remained strong even after potential confounds such as distance from the equator, geographical region, and average income were statistically controlled for.
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Sex differences in intra-sex variations in human mating tactics: An evolutionary approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of physical attractiveness and earning potential on mate selection and sex differences in preferences and motivations with regard to short-term and long-term mating were investigated.
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