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The Power of Prestige: Why Young Men Report Having more Sex Partners than Young Women
In a survey of 48 men and 61 women from a southwestern US college, the gender difference in reported number of sex partners was mediated by the degree to which individuals felt that men and women who had many ...
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Common vs. Uncommon Sexual Acts: Evidence for the Sexual Double Standard
The lack of consistent evidence for the sexual double standard may be related to the rather benign nature of the heterosexual behaviors often studied (e.g., casual sex, premarital sex). College students from t...
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Living a Fast Life
The current research applied a mid-level evolutionary theory that has been successfully employed across numerous animal species—life history theory—in an attempt to understand the Dark Triad personality trait ...
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Four Functions for Four Relationships: Consensus Definitions of University Students
In this study (N = 192; 124 women, 68 men), consensus definitions of one-night stands, booty-call relationships, friends-with-benefits, and serious romantic relationships were fashioned using a sample of universi...
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Relationship Choices and Sexuality
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Unweaving the Rainbow of Human Sexuality: A Review of One-Night Stands, Serious Romantic Relationships, and the Relationship Space in Between
For 50 years, relationship researchers have primarily focused on two varieties of relationships; one-night stands and serious romantic relationships. Both of these are treated as (1) distinct relationships and...
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An Examination of the Nature of Erotic Talk
Using a mixed-methods study, we provided the first systematic documentation and exploration of erotic talk. In Study 1 (N = 95), participants provided 569 erotic talk statements in an anonymous online survey, whi...
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Quantifying Common Criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology
In a sample of academics (N = 111), we quantified the dimensions underlying criticisms of evolutionary psychology in relation to criticisms of its parent fields (i.e., general psychology and evolutionary biology)...
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The Exploitive Mating Strategy of the Dark Triad Traits: Tests of Rape-Enabling Attitudes
The Dark Triad traits have been repeatedly labeled as facilitating an exploitive mating strategy. However, various researchers have repeatedly conflated short-term mating or casual sex with an exploitive matin...
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Costs of Short-Term Mating for Women
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Antisocial Behavior
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Exploring the Dark Side of Personality: Emotional Awareness, Empathy, and the Dark Triad Traits in an Italian Sample
The Dark Triad represents a collection of three socially aversive traits, namely Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism. In this study, we examined the psychometric properties of the Italian translation...
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Associations Between Motives for Casual Sex, Depression, Self-Esteem, and Sexual Victimization
People’s motives for casual sex moderate associations between their sexual behavior and the outcomes they experience. Derived from self-determination theory, autonomous motives for casual sex (e.g., I wanted t...
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Antisocial Behavior
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Relationship Choices and Sexuality
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Costs of Short-Term Mating for Women
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Open AccessMating Decisions in the Absence of Physical Attraction
Mates high in physical attractiveness are in short supply, which means that not all people are able to find mates who are sufficiently attractive. Threshold models of mate preferences suggest that when physica...
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Dirty dozen: A concise measure of dark triad traits among at-risk youths
The Dark Triad is a term used to describe a constellation of three socially undesirable personality traits: psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism. The aim of the present study was to examine the psycho...
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Individuals High on the Dark Triad Traits are More Jealous if they are Also High on Mate Value and Restricted in Sociosexuality
The motivation to mate is a universal motive for all sexually dimorphic species, of which humans belong, that facilitates reproductive success. Jealousy is a universal emotion that is adaptive in the context o...
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Contract Cheating and the Dark Triad Traits
The Dark Triad traits are characterised by a callousness, antagonistic, and a norm-violating core, and on their own they are linked to a sense of entitlement and grandiosity (i.e., narcissism), impulsivity and...
