Personality, Mating Strategies, and Mating Intelligence Clegg, H.,& Nettle, D.(2008) Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind’s reproductive.

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Personality, Mating Strategies, and Mating Intelligence Clegg, H.,& Nettle, D.(2008) Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind’s reproductive system. In G.Geheler and G. Miller (Ed.), Personality, mating strategies and mating intelligence (pp ). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Introduction Intelligence is one of the most sought after traits in the Mating Mind Individual differences in 5 factors of personality can be seen as variations in mating strategies that represent different routes to reproductive success. The importance of dispositional qualities (eg., intelligence, personality, moral virtues) in a possible mate outweigh situational variables (eg., status, wealth).

Mating Intelligence Mating intelligence: the set of cognitive abilities relating to mate choice, courtship, and mating. Heritable variation in sexual attitudes and behaviors persists because of evolutionary trade-offs Trade-offs arise from issues of time-allocation and energy-allocation

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Main Points ExtraversionNeuroticism Mate Selection Vs. Retention High MS = social context leads to short-term relationships Low MR = promiscuity undermine Long-term relationships Threat Detection Low TD = sensible High TD = threaten relationship with worry, jealousy, and neediness.

Maint Points Conscientiousness & Agreeableness Openness Future Discounting High FD= Sought, weigh future costs and benefits strongly Low FD=Increase opportunistic short-term mating Other’s Interests High OI: Sought, Miss sexual oportunities, impaired status competition o -infidelity,-sexual partners, Creativity/ Signaling Good Condition=Creativity +attract mates Bad Condition= repel mates, - reproductive success, +mental illness

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Mate Preferences Members of both sexes seek cues of high agreeableness and conscientiousness in potential mates. Sympathetic & Kind= strongest finding Low neuroticism & emotional stability = both sexes Extraversion: -Female display, +Male display

Conclusion Trade-offs offer no stable universal optimum, therefore selection can maintain spectrum of heritable variation. Preferences for certain personality traits make sense evolutionarily in regards to assuring parental investment in males after reproduction and the genetic quality of offspring. Seek different mental trait values in a partner than one. Desire for High Agreeableness and Conscientiousness and low neuroticism