Intelligence and mate choice: intelligent men are always appealing

By Mark D. Prokosch, R. Coss, J. E. Scheib, Shelley A. Blozis. 2009

111 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Sociology and Political Science

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. D. Puts
2. N. Boogert
3. David Feinberg
4. Lisa L. M. Welling
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In Sociology and Political Science

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3. D. Puts
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Citations in the corpus

• Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans (2010, background): “Women also do not seem to prefer intelligent men more strongly near ovulation (Gangestad et al., 2007; Prokosch et al., 2009, but see Haselton & Miller, 2006).”
• Complex relationship between multiple measures of cognitive ability and male mating success in satin bowerbirds, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus (2011, background): “2001) and human females can accurately assess male intelligence by watching their behaviour (Prokosch et al. 2009).”
• Mate choice for cognitive traits: a review of the evidence in nonhuman vertebrates (2011, background): “Furthermore, women prefer both more intelligent and more symmetric men (Buss 1989; Gangestad et al. 1994; Thornhill and Gangestad 1999; Li et al. 2002; Brown et al. 2005; Prokosch et al. 2009).”