What You See May Be What You Want: Mate Copying in a Natural Setting

IF 1.2 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology Pub Date : 2022-07-27 DOI:10.1007/s40750-022-00193-9

Ryan C. Anderson, Ashleigh A. Armstrong

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Abstract

Objectives

The phenomenon of mate copying (MC) suggests that an individual’s romantic desirability varies, to some degree, as a function of their romantic experiences. By manipulating relationship history, this research aimed to determine whether male desirability varied similarly for static stimuli (photographs) as it did for dynamic stimuli (short clips). Here we present 2 studies examining this idea.

Methods

In both studies heterosexual women aged 18–34 were recruited from social media and evaluated the desirability of men, before and after being given information about the level of relationship experience the men had previously had (either ‘none’, ‘some’, or ‘lots’).

Results

In Study 1 (N = 278), we employed static images of men and Study 2 (N = 66) was methodologically similar but employed dynamic stimuli. Study 1 indicated that a man’s desirability to heterosexual women increased when it was revealed that he had a moderate amount of relationship experience but decreased if he had none. Results from Study 2 suggested that desirability was not affected by an individual’s relationship experience.

Conclusions

MC was indicated when stimuli were static, but not when they were dynamic. These results suggest that MC may be a phenomenon that exists to a greater extent when stimuli are less informative.

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你看到的可能是你想要的：在自然环境中复制伴侣

摘要目的伴侣复制现象表明，一个人的浪漫欲望在一定程度上随着他们的浪漫经历而变化。通过操纵关系史，这项研究旨在确定男性对静态刺激（照片）的渴望是否与对动态刺激（短片）的渴望相似。在这里，我们提出了两项研究来检验这一观点。方法在这两项研究中，年龄在18-34岁的异性恋女性都是从社交媒体上招募的，并在获得关于男性以前有过的关系经历水平的信息（“没有”、“一些”或“很多”）之前和之后评估男性的可取性 = 278），我们采用了男性的静态图像和研究2（N = 66）在方法上相似，但采用了动态刺激。研究1表明，当男性有适度的恋爱经历时，他对异性恋女性的好感度会增加，但如果没有恋爱经历，好感度会降低。研究2的结果表明，可取性不受个人关系经历的影响。结论sMC在静态刺激时显示，而在动态刺激时不显示。这些结果表明，当刺激信息较少时，MC可能是一种更大程度上存在的现象。

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Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL-

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3.10

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6.20%

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期刊介绍： Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology is an international interdisciplinary scientific journal that publishes theoretical and empirical studies of any aspects of adaptive human behavior (e.g. cooperation, affiliation, and bonding, competition and aggression, sex and relationships, parenting, decision-making), with emphasis on studies that also address the biological (e.g. neural, endocrine, immune, cardiovascular, genetic) mechanisms controlling behavior.