Sexual selection and the ascent of women: Mate choice research since Darwin

GG Rosenthal, MJ Ryan - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Darwin's theory of sexual selection fundamentally changed how we think about sex and
evolution. The struggle over mating and fertilization is a powerful driver of diversification …

Mate choice copying in humans: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A Gouda-Vossos, S Nakagawa, BJW Dixson… - … Human Behavior and …, 2018‏ - Springer
Objective Mate choice copying (MCC) is a type of non-independent mate choice where the
'probability of acceptance'of a potential mate increases if they are observed to be chosen by …

How do ideal friend preferences and interaction context affect friendship formation? Evidence for a domain-general relationship initiation process

SA Huang, A Ledgerwood… - Social Psychological …, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This research examined how people's ideal friend preferences influence the friendship
formation process. In an extension of prior research on romantic relationship initiation, we …

The experimental evolution of human culture: flexibility, fidelity and environmental instability

TJH Morgan, JW Suchow… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The past 2 Myr have seen both unprecedented environmental instability and the evolution of
the human capacity for complex culture. This, along with the observation that cultural …

Prestige, conformity and gender consistency support a broad-context mechanism underpinning mate-choice copying

M Foreman, TJH Morgan - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Mate choice is a fitness-relevant decision, that can be informed by the mate choices of
others. Such mate-choice copying has been documented across multiple species, including …

Agent-based models of the cultural evolution of occupational gender roles

CP Cross, LG Boothroyd… - Royal Society Open …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The causes of sex differences in human behaviour are contested, with 'evolutionary'and
'social'explanations often being pitted against each other in the literature. Recent work …

Limited evidence of hierarchical encoding in the cheerleader effect

DJ Carragher, NA Thomas, OS Gwinn… - Scientific Reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Abstract “The cheerleader effect” refers to the increase in attractiveness that an individual
face experiences when seen in a group of other faces. It has been proposed that the …

Extensions of sexual strategies theory across peoples, cultures, and ecologies

DP Schmitt - The Oxford handbook of human mating, 2023‏ - books.google.com
Evolutionary behavioral scientists have amassed considerable evidence that human mating
psychology displays adaptive design, varying in functionally predictable ways across sexes …

Human mate copying as a form of nonindependent mate selection: Findings and considerations.

RC Anderson, MK Surbey - Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 2020‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Mate copying, or mate-choice copying, refers to the heightened probability of choosing or
preferring a prospective mate as a result of them having been previously chosen by another …

Does an attractive partner make you a better leader? Only if you are a male!

I Kocoglu, MA Mithani - The Leadership Quarterly, 2020‏ - Elsevier
We integrate the research on evolutionary leadership with the evolutionary psychology of
mate choice to argue that a facially attractive partner signals unobservable leadership …