In the Heat of the Short-Term Moment: Evidence that Heightened Sexual Arousal Increases Short-Term Mating Motivation Among MenEvolutionary Psychological Science - Tập 9 - Trang 148-162 - 2022
Arnaud Wisman, Andrew G. Thomas
Individual differences in men’s short-term mating interest are well studied, both at state and trait levels. Yet, the role of sexual arousal as a source of intra-individual variation has been neglected. This research represents the first attempt to integrate sexual arousal into the human mate plasticity literature. We argue that sexual arousal directly impacts the short-term mating motivation amon...... hiện toàn bộ
How Diverse Are the Samples Used in the Journals ‘Evolution & Human Behavior’ and ‘Evolutionary Psychology’?Evolutionary Psychological Science - Tập 5 - Trang 357-368 - 2019
Thomas V. Pollet, Tamsin K. Saxton
Psychologists regularly draw inferences about populations based on data from small samples of people, and so have long been interested in how well those samples generalise to wider populations. There is a consensus that psychology probably relies too much on samples from Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies and among those from university students. Online survey...... hiện toàn bộ
Sex-Specific Developmental Effects of Father Absence on Casual Sexual Behavior and Life History StrategyEvolutionary Psychological Science - Tập 5 - Trang 121-130 - 2018
Jessica A. Hehman, Catherine A. Salmon
A substantial body of research has investigated the effects of early family environments on the sexual maturity and behavior of adolescents and young adults. Most of this research has focused primarily on (i) early childhood environments, (ii) these effects in females with much less attention devoted to males’ sexual maturity and behavior, and (iii) sexual behavior of adolescents and young adults....... hiện toàn bộ
Dad and Mom Bods? Inferences of Parenting Ability from Bodily CuesEvolutionary Psychological Science - Tập 6 - Trang 207-214 - 2020
Donald F. Sacco, Kaitlyn Holifield, Kelsey Drea, Mitch Brown, Alicia Macchione
Though much research has explored how facial and bodily features connote heritable fitness, particularly in the context of short-term mating, such cues similarly may influence perceptions of potential parenting ability. The current study explored how body fat variation and breast size in female targets and body fat and muscularity variation in male targets influence men’s and women’s perceptions o...... hiện toàn bộ
Human Biological and Psychological DiversityEvolutionary Psychological Science - Tập 3 - Trang 159-180 - 2017
Bo Winegard, Benjamin Winegard, Brian Boutwell
Many evolutionary psychologists have asserted that there is a panhuman nature, a species typical psychological structure that is invariant across human populations. Although many social scientists dispute the basic assumptions of evolutionary psychology, they seem widely to agree with this hypothesis. Psychological differences among human populations (demes, ethnic groups, races) are almost always...... hiện toàn bộ
Studying Sex Differences in Psychosocial Life History IndicatorsEvolutionary Psychological Science - Tập 6 - Trang 47-59 - 2019
Lee T. Copping, George B. Richardson
The last decade has seen rapid growth in the study of human life history strategies, with advances to theory, increasingly sophisticated research designs, and innovative new tools now being at the disposal of researchers. Contemporary evolutionary psychology suggests there should be variation in biological and psychological traits attributable to differences between the sexes. We review theory und...... hiện toàn bộ
Naturally Selected Mate Preferences Appear to Be Androgen-Influenced: Evidence from Two CulturesEvolutionary Psychological Science - Tập 1 - Trang 103-122 - 2015
Lee Ellis, Malini Ratnasingam
An “enhanced” evolutionary theory called evolutionary neuroandrogenic (ENA) theory argues that gender differences in cognitive and behavioral traits result from natural selection favoring gender differences in brain exposure to androgens. This implies that even within males and females, gender dimorphic cognitive and behavioral traits should correlate with androgen exposure. The present study test...... hiện toàn bộ