TY - JOUR
T1 - Men’s Mate Value Correlates with a Less Restricted Sociosexual Orientation
T2 - A Meta-Analysis
AU - Arnocky, Steven
AU - Desrochers, Jessica
AU - Rotella, Amanda
AU - Albert, Graham
AU - Hodges-Simeon, Carolyn
AU - Locke, Ashley
AU - Belanger, Jacob
AU - Lynch, Danielle
AU - Kelly, Benjamin
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Men, relative to women, can benefit their total reproductive success by engaging in short-term pluralistic mating. Yet not all men enact such a mating strategy. It has previously been hypothesized that high mate value men should be most likely to adopt a short-term mating strategy, with this prediction being firmly grounded in some important mid-level evolutionary psychological theories. Yet evidence to support such a link has been mixed. This paper presents a comprehensive meta-analysis of 33 published and unpublished studies (N = 5928) in which we find that that self-reported mate value accounts for roughly 6% of variance in men’s sociosexual orientation. The meta-analysis provides evidence that men’s self-perceived mate value positively predicts their tendency to engage in short-term mating, but that the total effect size is small.
AB - Men, relative to women, can benefit their total reproductive success by engaging in short-term pluralistic mating. Yet not all men enact such a mating strategy. It has previously been hypothesized that high mate value men should be most likely to adopt a short-term mating strategy, with this prediction being firmly grounded in some important mid-level evolutionary psychological theories. Yet evidence to support such a link has been mixed. This paper presents a comprehensive meta-analysis of 33 published and unpublished studies (N = 5928) in which we find that that self-reported mate value accounts for roughly 6% of variance in men’s sociosexual orientation. The meta-analysis provides evidence that men’s self-perceived mate value positively predicts their tendency to engage in short-term mating, but that the total effect size is small.
KW - Mate value
KW - Mating strategies
KW - Meta-analysis
KW - Sexual behavior
KW - Sociosexual orientation
KW - Strategic pluralism theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111537887&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10508-021-01937-6
DO - 10.1007/s10508-021-01937-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 34327590
AN - SCOPUS:85111537887
SN - 0004-0002
VL - 50
SP - 3663
EP - 3673
JO - Archives of Sexual Behavior
JF - Archives of Sexual Behavior
IS - 8
ER -