Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-nation study of sex, culture, and strategies of human mating

By D. Schmitt. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2005

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

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Individual differences in intrasexual competition (2009, background): “attractive men, relative to physically unattractive men, have been found to spend more time in mating effort and less time with kin (e.g., WAYNFORTH 1999; SCHMITT 2005).”
Adaptive attentional attunement: evidence for mating-related perceptual bias (2007, background): “…orientation are generally inclined to engage in sexual partnerships without need for emotional commitment, men with a more restricted sociosexual orientation tend to require greater emotional commitment before engaging in a sexual partnership (Simpson & Gangestad, 1991; see also Schmitt, 2005).”
The Fewer the Merrier?: Assessing Stigma Surrounding Consensually Non‐monogamous Romantic Relationships (2013, background): “According to Schmitt (2005), women and men embody inconsistent mating styles across cultures, suggesting that human beings are not built strictly for long-term mating.”
The Development of Life History Strategies: Toward a Multi-Stage Theory (2010, background): “Finally, humans can enact “mixed” strategies, where parental investment and long-term commitment to one’s partner coexists with the occasional pursuit of short-term matings (see Del Giudice, 2009a ; Gangestad & Simpson, 2000 ; Jackson & Kirkpatrick, 2007 ; Schmitt, 2005 ).”
The evolutionary genetics of personality (2007, background): “…can survive without so much paternal support (as in most agricultural and modern societies), the more risk-seeking 7R allele should be favoured by selection, as it leads to a personality more prone to sexual promiscuity and intrasexual competition (Gangestad & Simpson, 2000; Schmitt, 2005).”
The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity (2010, neutral): “Human mating is best characterized as strategically flexible (Gangestad and Simpson, 2000), with a widely documented tendency for men to engage in higher mating effort than women (e.g., Schmitt, 2005).”
Attached to monogamy? Avoidance predicts willingness to engage (but not actual engagement) in consensual non-monogamy (2015, background): “, 2013; Perel, 2006), truly monogamous practices are nonnormative in the majority of the world’s societies (Schmitt, 2005).”
The Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology (2015, methodology): “It predicts and explains principled cross-cultural variation; for example, adaptations have been designed by selection to take relevant local conditions as input to produce output that is calibrated to local circumstances (e.g., Gaulin & Schlegel, 1980; Schmitt, 2005; Sznycer et al., 2012).”
TARGET ARTICLE: Evolutionary Foundations of Cultural Variation: Evoked Culture and Mate Preferences (2006, positive): “Hence, the sex difference in preference for a mate with high access to resources may be muted in circumstances in which women participate more heavily in direct production (see also Schmitt, 2005).”