The early stages of mate selection
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-2023
Abstract
Given the centrality of mating and reproduction in the long course of human evolution, the selection of mates is a critical adaptive challenge that humans have needed to successfully confront throughout evolutionary history. This chapter provides an overview of major evolutionary theories of human mating, describes key hypotheses of mate preference psychology, and reviews relevant empirical research for the early stages of mate selection. We discuss mate preference adaptations for selecting both long-term and short-term mates, as well as methodological issues, controversies, and other developments that have, in recent years, surfaced in the mate-selection literature.
Keywords
evolutionary psychology, mate preferences, mate selection, long-term mating, short-term mating
Discipline
Social Psychology | Social Psychology and Interaction
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
The Oxford Handbook of Human Mating
Editor
BUSS, David M.
First Page
121
Last Page
153
ISBN
9780197536438
Identifier
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197536438.013.2
Publisher
New York: Oxford University Press
Citation
LI, Norman P., & CHOY, Bryan K.. (2023). The early stages of mate selection. In The Oxford Handbook of Human Mating (pp. 121-153). : New York: Oxford University Press.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3737
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197536438.013.2