Human mate selection

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Human mate selection is a complex process that has been studied by psychologists from a number of perspectives.

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See also

• Animal mate selection
• Assortative mating
• Behavioral immune system
• Biological attraction
• Choice behavior
• Disassortative mating
• Ecological selection
• Heterosexuality
• Homosexuality
• Human courtship
• Interpersonal attraction
• Interpersonal compatibility
• Intimacy
• Mating system
• Male female relations
• Pheromones
• Physical attractiveness
• Psychosexual behavior
• Random mating
• Relationship satisfaction
• Romance
• Sexual arousal
• Sexual attraction
• Sexual intercourse
• Sexual selection in human evolution
• Social dating

Additional material

Papers

• Google Scholar

• Buss, D. M., & Schmitt, D. P. (1993). Sexual Strategies Theory: A contextual evolutionary analysis of human mating. Psychological Review, 100, 204-232. Full text

• Greiling, H., Buss, D.M. (2000). Women's Sexual Strategies: The hidden dimension of extra pair mating. Personality and Individual Differences, 28, 929-963. Full text