With a little help from my (undesirable) friends: The influence of sex ratio on preferences for the relative mate value of friends

• المؤلف الرئيسي: CHOY, Bryan Kwok Cheng
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• الموضوعات: Sex ratio; Mating strategies; Intrasexual competition; Friendships; Mate value; Evolutionary psychology; Gender and Sexuality; Social Psychology and Interaction
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/293; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1293&context=etd_coll

The present research examined whether who men and women choose to befriend reflects evolved desires for managing intrasexual competition for mates. It is reasoned that individuals should display a stronger preference for others of relatively lower mate value to oneself when the local ecology exhibit...