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

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197536438.013.2

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