1. Above and beyond short-term mating, long-term mating is uniquely tied to human personality.
- Author
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Holtzman NS and Strube MJ
- Subjects
- Adult, Biological Evolution, Female, Humans, India, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Peer Group, Regression Analysis, Schizoid Personality Disorder diagnosis, Self Report, Sexual Behavior ethnology, Sexual Behavior statistics & numerical data, Social Behavior, Time Factors, United States, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Models, Psychological, Personality, Personality Assessment statistics & numerical data, Sexual Behavior psychology
- Abstract
To what extent are personality traits and sexual strategies linked? The literature does not provide a clear answer, as it is based on the Sociosexuality model, a one-dimensional model that fails to measure long-term mating (LTM). An improved two-dimensional model separately assesses long-term and short-term mating (STM; Jackson and Kirkpatrick, 2007). In this paper, we link this two-dimensional model to an array of personality traits (Big 5, Dark Triad, and Schizoid Personality). We collected data from different sources (targets and peers; Study 1), and from different nations (United States, Study 1; India, Study 2). We demonstrate for the first time that, above and beyond STM, LTM captures variation in personality.
- Published
- 2013