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Human mate selection is a complex process that has been studied by psychologists from a number of perspectives.
Biological basis of human mate selection
Interpersonal attraction
Interpersonal compatability
See also
- Animal mate selection
- Assortative mating
- Behavioral immune system
- Biological attraction
- Choice behavior
- Disassortative mating
- Ecological selection
- Heterosexuality
- Homosexuality
- Intimacy
- Mating system
- Male female relations
- Psychosexual behavior
- Random mating
- Relationship satisfaction
- Romance
- Sexual arousal
- Sexual intercourse
- Sexual selection in human evolution
- Social dating
References & Bibliography
Key texts
Books
Papers
Additional material
Books
Papers
- 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