Counting members in my league: Mate value moderates economic effects of local operational sex ratio

• Main Author: YAN, Zilin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: mate value; local operational sex ratio; work-family balance; temporal discounting; reproductive timing; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/193; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1193&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

When local operational sex ratio skews toward a larger proportion of same-sex to opposite-sex individuals, should members of the surplus sex increase or decrease (economic) efforts on reproduction? Past research yielded mixed results. In light of the fact that modern humans are highly mobile and can...