The long and short of mistress relationships: Sex-differentiated mate preferences reflect a compromise of mating ideals

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: CHOY, Bryan K. C., LI, Norman P., TAN, Kenneth
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• الموضوعات: Evolutionary psychology; Infidelity; Mate preferences; Mistresses; Sex differences; Applied Behavior Analysis; Experimental Analysis of Behavior; Social Psychology
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4159; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5418/viewcontent/The_long_and_short_of_mistress_relationships_sex_differentiated_mate_preferences_reflect_a_compromise_of_mating_ideals.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

The mate preferences literature has been fairly muted on mate preferences for extrapair partners. In four studies, we examined mate preferences for mistress relationships--the traits that men prioritize in a mistress and that mistresses prioritize in their male partners--and compared these preferences to those of short- and long-term relationships. In studies 1a and 1b, (N = 104 and 191 respectively), we derived dimensions of mate preferences for mistress relationships through factor analyses. In studies 2 and 3 (N = 219 and 101 respectively) we employed the budget allocation paradigm to compare people's priorities for different traits for a mistress relationship (versus short- and long-term relationships). We found that men focused on fulfilling short-term mating ideals (prioritizing physical attractiveness) in a mistress relationship, but women focused on fulfilling longer-term (but also some short-term) mating ideals (prioritizing both physical attractiveness and social status) for a mistress relationship. Overall, mistress relationships may reflect a compromise of men's and women's conflicting and evolved mating ideals.