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A comprehensive theory of human mating must explain between-sex and within-sex differences in mating strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

April L. Bleske  and
David M. Buss
April L. Bleske
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 bleske@mail.utexas.edu
David M. Buss
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 bleske@mail.utexas.edu
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Abstract

Gangestad & Simpson make a major contribution by highlighting the importance of mate choice for good genes, the costs of alternative strategies, and tradeoffs inherent in human mating. By downplaying sex differences and ignoring the nongenetic adaptive benefits of short term mating, however, they undermine their goal of “strategic pluralism” by presenting a theory devoid of many documented complexities of human mating.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 593 - 594
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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