Definition
Violations of long-term mate preferences refer to instances in which a person in a long-term relationship has mate preferences that were in place when the relationship commenced but subsequently are not being met.
Introduction
According to an evolutionary perspective, mate preferences evolved through natural and sexual selection to adaptively guide individuals to select reproductively viable mates (Buss and Schmitt 1993; Symons 1979). A host of evidence has supported various hypotheses on mate preferences, including studies conducted through surveys, numerous naturalistic settings, and modern, live-interactive contexts (Li and Meltzer 2015). Although mate preferences have, on average, led to adaptive choices over thousands of generations, they are not always fulfilled in the mates that people actually select, and even when they initially are, conditions occur that...
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Long, M.L.W., Li, N.P. (2016). Violation of Long-Term Mate Preferences. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3720-1
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