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Should I stay or should I go? Partner choice and mating strategies

Evolutionary perspective emphasizes two crucial variables affecting partner choice: sex of the chooser and the short-term vs. long-term context of mating. Based on Darwin's sexual selection theory and Trivers' theory of parental investment, numerous hypotheses have been proposed about different sexual strategies of women and men, and different strategies that both sexes apply when choosing a partner for a long-term or a short-term relationship. This paper presents our studies in which we addressed some of those hypotheses. Firstly, are there sex differences in preferences for certain characteristics of the partner and do they differ in a short-term and long-term mating context? Secondly, are there differences in the tendency to pursue short-term relationships between groups of different age and income? Thirdly, how does the self- perceived mate value influence the preferences in mate choice? Taken together, these results enable us to make some inferences about sex differences in mating strategies in short-term and long-term context, interindividual differences in those strategies within each sex, and the effect of own mate value on the importance of a potential mate’s characteristics.

mating strategies, evolutionary psychology, sex differences, mate value

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