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David P Schmitt1, Lidia Alcalay, Jüri Allik, Lara Ault, Ivars Austers, Kevin L Bennett, Gabriel Bianchi, Fredric Boholst, Mary Ann Borg Cunen, Johan Braeckman, Edwin G Brainerd, Leo Gerard A Caral, Gabrielle Caron, Maria Martina Casullo, Michael Cunningham, Ikuo Daibo, Charlotte De Backer, Eros De Souza, Rolando Diaz-Loving, Gláucia Diniz, Kevin Durkin, Marcela Echegaray, Ekin Eremsoy, Harald A Euler, Ruth Falzon, Maryanne L Fisher, Dolores Foley, Douglas P Fry, Sirpa Fry, M Arif Ghayur, Debra L Golden, Karl Grammer, Liria Grimaldi, Jamin Halberstadt, Dora Herrera, Janine Hertel, Heather Hoffmann, Danica Hooper, Zuzana Hradilekova, Jasna Hudek-Kene-evi, Jas Jaafer, Margarita Jankauskaite, Heidi Kabangu-Stahel, Igor Kardum, Brigitte Khoury, Hayrran Kwon, Kaia Laidra, Anton-Rupert Laireiter, Dustin Lakerveld, Ada Lampert, Maryanne Lauri, Marguerite Lavallée, Suk-Jae Lee, Luk Chung Leung, Kenneth D Locke, Vance Locke, Ivan Luksik, Ishmael Magaisa, Dalia Marcinkeviciene, André Mata, Rui Mata, Barry McCarthy, Michael E Mills, João Moreira, Sérgio Moreira, Miguel Moya, M Munyae, Patricia Noller, Adrian Opre, Alexia Panayiotou, Nebojsa Petrovic, Karolien Poels, Miroslav Popper, Maria Poulimenou, Volodymyr P'yatokha, Michel Raymond, Ulf-Dietrich Reips, Susan E Reneau, Sofia Rivera-Aragon, Wade C Rowatt, Willibald Ruch, Velko S Rus, Marilyn P Safir, Sonia Salas, Fabio Sambataro, Kenneth N Sandnabba, Marion K Schulmeyer, Astrid Schütz, Tullio Scrimali, Todd K Shackelford, Phillip R Shaver, Francis Sichona, Franco Simonetti, Tilahun Sinehsaw, Tom Speelman, Spyros Spyrou, H Canan Sümer, Nebi Sümer, Marianna Supekova, Tomasz Szlendak, Robin Taylor, Bert Timmermans, William Tooke, Ioannis Tsaousis, F S K Tungaraza, Griet Vandermassen, Tom Vanhoomissen, Frank Van Overwalle, Ine Vanwesenbeeck, Paul L Vasey, João Verissimo, Martin Voracek, Wendy W N Wan, Ta-Wei Wang, Peter Weiss, Andik Wijaya, Liesbeth Woertman, Gahyun Youn, Agata Zupanèiè.
Abstract
Evolutionary psychologists have hypothesized that men and women possess both long-term and short-term mating strategies, with men's short-term strategy differentially rooted in the desire for sexual variety. In this article, findings from a cross-cultural survey of 16,288 people across 10 major world regions (including North America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, Middle East, Africa, Oceania, South/Southeast Asia, and East Asia) demonstrate that sex differences in the desire for sexual variety are culturally universal throughout these world regions. Sex differences were evident regardless of whether mean, median, distributional, or categorical indexes of sexual differentiation were evaluated. Sex differences were evident regardless of the measures used to evaluate them. Among contemporary theories of human mating, pluralistic approaches that hypothesize sex differences in the evolved design of short-term mating provide the most compelling account of these robust empirical findings.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 12872886 DOI： 10.1037/0022-3514.85.1.85
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Pers Soc Psychol ISSN： 0022-3514