Definition
Violations of short-term mate preferences refer to instances in which a person in a short-term, casual sexual relationship has mate preferences that were in place when the relationship commenced but subsequently are not being met.
Introduction
Men and women around the world have an assortment of mating preferences and strategies. These preferences and strategies have evolved to adaptively guide the selection of mates who are reproductively viable (Buss and Schmitt 1993); however, they are not always fulfilled in the mates that people actually select due to various reasons. For instance, people’s initial assessments can be inaccurate, partners’ relative mate value can change, and partners often face sexual conflict or strategic interference. This chapter will describe preferences for casual, sexual short-term partners and then violations of preferences due largely to...
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Yong, J.C., Li, N.P. (2016). Violation of Short-Term Mating Preferences. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3816-2
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