Human Mate Choice
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F22%3A10451935" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/22:10451935 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11210/22:10451935 RIV/00216208:11240/22:10451935
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003091868-31" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003091868-31</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003091868-31" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003091868-31</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Human Mate Choice
Original language description
Mating is a central issue in evolutionary behavioural sciences, because it has a direct impact on individual fitness. Here we summarise current knowledge on human mate choice and highlight commonalities with other species and features specific to humans. First, we introduce the concept of mate preferences and review the main ones. Then we provide an overview of individual variation in mate preferences, such as sex, mate value, and culture, and touch upon individual development of mate preferences, including learning processes and inheritance of preferences. We present the most prominent mate choice models, such as Threshold, Euclidean, and Additive models and offer a review of evidence of assortative mating, including the mechanisms of assortment. Finally, we discuss the involvement of parents in human mate choice. The chapter ends with a brief summary, pointing out some of the gaps in current knowledge and suggestions for future research.
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
<a href="/en/project/GA18-15168S" target="_blank" >GA18-15168S: Effect of parental characteristics on mate choice</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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 Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology
ISBN
978-1-00-309186-8
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
338-354
Number of pages of the book
394
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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