Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
12-2016
Abstract
Differences in minimum obligatory parental investment contributed by men and women lead the sexes to diverge in their sexual strategies and affective experiences, although under certain conditions, men’s mating preferences converge with women’s. This chapter first describes necessary or obligatory parental investment, examines the origins of sex differences in obligatory parental investment, describes examples of such differences across a range of species, and highlights the consequences of these differences in terms of human sexual strategies, conflicts, and affective experiences.
Keywords
Intrasexual competition, Intersexual selection, Obligatory investment, Parental investment, Sex differences
Discipline
Gender and Sexuality | Personality and Social Contexts | Social Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science
Editor
T. K. Shackelford & V. Weekes-Shackelford
ISBN
9783319169996
Identifier
10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1898-1
Publisher
Springer
City or Country
Cham
Citation
YONG, Jose C., & LI, Norman P.. (2016). Differential parental investment. In Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science (pp. ). Cham: Springer.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2436
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1898-1
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