Parental Investment and Sexual Selection

By Bernard Campbell. 2017

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization (2015, positive): “Evolutionary theories such as Sexual Selection Theory (Darwin 1871) and Parental Investment Theory (Trivers 1972) suggest that, as mammals, men and women likely pursue somewhat different mating strategies and at least some of the adaptive design of men’s and women’s evolved mating psychologies will…”
Social Dominance Theory: Explorations in the Psychology of Oppression (2016, neutral): “Trivers, R.L. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection. In B. Campbell (Ed.), Sexual selection and the descent of man (pp.136–179). Chicago: Aldine-Atherton. Turner, J., & Reynolds, K. (2003). Why social dominance theory has been falsified.”
The Evolution of Cognitive Bias (2015, positive): “Because of women’s necessarily heavy investment in each child produced, and the necessarily long interval between births, finding high-quality partners—not more numerous partners—probably had a greater impact on women’s reproductive success (Buss, 1994; Symons, 1979; Trivers, 1972).”
Disgust and mating strategy (2015, positive): “This sex difference in choosiness is particularly pronounced in the context of short-term mating, which carries greater potential costs for women than for men (Symons, 1979; Trivers, 1972).”
Beyond the nuclear family: an evolutionary perspective on parenting (2016, positive): “Trivers’ [41] influential work on parental investment suggested two reasons could explain this phenomenon: firstly, greater initial female investment in gametes means they have more to lose should the offspring die; secondly, male-biased sex ratios increase competition for mates among males, which l”
Human Emotions: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective (2016, positive): “Because the costs of a missed sexual opportunity are typically greater for men than for women (Symons, 1979; Trivers, 1972), motivational shifting should be stronger, on average, for men than for women, with notable exceptions such as a rare opportunity for sex with a partner of unusually high…”
Mate preferences in Brazil: Evolved desires and cultural evolution over three decades (2016, neutral): “…fertility cannot be observed directly, evolutionary hypotheses have predicted that men more than women value physical appearance in mates because appearance provides a wealth of observable cues to fertility, such as clear skin, full lips, and lustrous hair (Buss, 1989; Symons, 1979; Trivers, 1972).”