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Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation

Daniel Conroy-Beam, +116 more
- 01 Sep 2019 - 
- Vol. 40, Iss: 5, pp 479-491
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This work uses agent-based models to demonstrate that assortative mating causes the evolution of a positive manifold of desirability, d, such that an individual who is desirable as a mate along any one dimension tends to be desirable across all other dimensions.
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This article is published in Evolution and Human Behavior.The article was published on 2019-09-01. It has received 27 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Assortative mating & Mate choice.

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Universality of the triangular theory of love: Adaptation and psychometric properties of the triangular love scale in 25 countries

Piotr Sorokowski, +113 more
TL;DR: This large-scale cross-cultural study with the use of Sternberg’s Triangular Love Scale confirmed the cultural universality of the theoretical construct of love analyzed in this study.
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Reasons for Facebook Usage: Data From 46 Countries

Marta Kowal, +103 more
TL;DR: This publication was financed within the framework of the programme titled Dialogue introduced by the Minister of Science and Higher Education between 2016 and 2019.
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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).

TL;DR: 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 and suggest that a relatively high level of acceptance of sugar relationships is part of a mating strategy focused on opportunities of maximizing resources.
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Sexual economic theory & the human mating market

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply economic principles to the heterosexual human mating market using data on the socio-demographics, biology, attractiveness, sexual behaviour, and reproductive history of 3,26...
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COVID-19 Pandemic on Fire: Evolved Propensities for Nocturnal Activities as a Liability Against Epidemiological Control

TL;DR: The eveningness epidemiological liability hypothesis as mentioned in this paper suggests that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the evening-oriented psychobehavioral profile can have collectively harmful consequences: there is a clash of core tendencies between the nocturnal chronotype and the recent viral transmission-mitigating safety guidelines and rules.
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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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Preferences in human mate selection.

TL;DR: In this article, the consequences of mate preferences for the processes of assortative mating and sexual selection are discussed. And the authors present alternative hypotheses to account for the replicated sex differences in preferences for attractiveness and earning potential.
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Five decades of educational assortative mating.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined trends in assortative mating using the 1% PUMS of the 1940 1960 1970 and 1980 US Censuses and the Current Population Surveys (CPS) of 1985-87.
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Good-looking people are not what we think.

TL;DR: In this article, meta-analysis was used to examine findings in two related areas: experimental research on the physical attractiveness stereotype and correlational studies of characteristics associated with physical attractiveness, and they found that both of these areas are related to physical attractiveness stereotypes.
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