Mate Retention
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11240/22:10451286 RIV/00216208:11410/22:10451286
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943567.017" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108943567.017</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108943567.017" target="_blank" >10.1017/9781108943567.017</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Mate Retention
Original language description
Mate retention has been defined by Buss (1988) as behavior aimed at preventing a partner's infidelity or desertion. In humans, who form long-term pairs in which both partners invest in the relationship and any offspring, it is important to acquire a "good" partner, but reproductive success also depended ancestrally on the ability to retain the partner. The concept of mate retention (Buss, 1988) in humans is based on a comparative analysis of analogous behaviors in other species, and the existence of behaviors that fit the concept in humans has been confirmed by numerous empirical studies (e.g., Buss & Shackelford, 1997, Shackelford, Goetz, & Buss, 2005). Nevertheless, with its strong emphasis on infidelity prevention, the concept as originally proposed was somewhat better suited to explaining male, rather than female, mate retention behavior. To understand what women do to keep their partners, we need a broader perspective that considers, for instance, partner-specific investment (Ellis, 1998) and close cooperation in a pair that produces a shared pool of resources (Conroy-Beam, Goetz, & Buss, 2015).In the following, I first focus on female adaptive goals connected to monogamous romantic relationships, discuss the variability of behaviors aimed at retaining a romantic partner, and outline how these behaviors are deployed depending on particular situations and personal factors. Then I point out important emotional and cognitive mechanisms underlying these behaviors and summarize the types of mate retention women employ in romantic relationships more than men. Finally, I focus on evidence in support of the claims that appearance enhancement and sexual behavior, in particular, are used by women to retain their partner.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The Cambridge handbook of evolutionary perspectives on sexual psychology: Vol. 3, Female sexual adaptations
ISBN
978-1-108-84429-1
Number of pages of the result
31
Pages from-to
343-373
Number of pages of the book
530
Publisher name
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
Cambridge
UT code for WoS chapter
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