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3 - Male Sexual Attraction Tactics

from Part I - Precopulatory Adaptations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2022

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Mitch Brown ,
Kaitlyn Boykin ,
Kelsey M. Drea ,
Alicia L. Macchione ,
Mary M. Medlin  and
Donald F. Sacco
Edited by
Todd K. Shackelford
Todd K. Shackelford
Affiliation:
Oakland University, Michigan
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Summary

This chapter focuses on the behaviors employed by men in the service of attracting mates, which we discuss as having emerged to solve specific reproductive problems faced by women. We consider behaviors employed by men to attract mates in short-term mating and long-term mating contexts, given the differential valuation on certain behavioral repertoire that emerge. In short-term mating, we specifically consider behavioral displays of dominance with their dispositional and situational antecedents before discussing men’s pursuit of distinctiveness and humor use, behaviors ostensibly indicative of good genes. In long-term mating, our discussion centers around the desirability of different resource displays and benevolence. We further discuss cues ostensibly diagnostic of paternal investment ability and an interest in monogamy. Our final section addresses how modern mating markets present adaptive problems for men (e.g., online dating, appearance enhancing behaviors) and how men seek to solve the new problems that have emerged.

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MatingMen’s reproductive strategiesAttractionSignaling
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The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology , pp. 57 - 83
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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