Mate Quality Bias: Sex Differences in Humans

@inproceedings{Vakirtzis2010MateQB,
  title={Mate Quality Bias: Sex Differences in Humans},
  author={Antonios Vakirtzis and Susan C. Roberts},
  year={2010}
}
In mate choice copying, a male is more likely to be chosen by other females simply by being observed mating. A recent finding is that women are influenced in their assessments of men by the phenotypic quality of males' sexual partners. We recently proposed that the term ‘mate quality bias’ should be used to differentiate this phenomenon from ‘mate choice copying’. Here, under the guise of a dating preferences survey we replicated and extended some earlier results. We found that when presented… Expand
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Female mate copying explored: an inconsistent effect
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Female Mate Copying: Measuring the Effect of Mate-Relevant Information Provided by Former Partners
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Mate Choice Copying in Humans: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Do women really like taken men? Results from a large questionnaire study.
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Nonindependent mate choice: the first study with real-life couples in a Greek sample
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Human Nonindependent Mate Choice: Is Model Female Attractiveness Everything?
  • A. Vakirtzis, Susan C. Roberts
  • Psychology, Medicine
  • Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
  • 2012
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It is found that the model female's attractiveness is the primary cue and there is no evidence that female raters prefer partners of slightly older model females, contrary to some earlier findings. Expand
Mate Choice Copying and Nonindependent Mate Choice: A Critical Review
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Mate Copying Is Moderated by Relationship Recency and Potentially by Breakup Responsibility
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