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2022 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 111275
Author(s):  
Danielle Sulikowski ◽  
Michelle Ensor ◽  
Danielle Wagstaff

2022 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 111288
Author(s):  
Jessica A. Hehman ◽  
Catherine A. Salmon ◽  
Anthony Pulford ◽  
Eric Ramirez ◽  
Peter K. Jonason

Author(s):  
Gurit E. Birnbaum ◽  
Yaniv Kanat-Maymon ◽  
Erica B. Slotter ◽  
Laura B. Luchies

Author(s):  
Jessica Desrochers ◽  
Megan MacKinnon ◽  
Benjamin Kelly ◽  
Brett Masse ◽  
Steven Arnocky

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahra Ko ◽  
Eunkook M. Suh ◽  
Ji-eun Shin ◽  
Steven Neuberg

Abstract If life satisfaction has functional significance for goal achievement, it should be calibrated to cues of potential success on active and fundamentally important goals. Within the context of mating motivation, we tested this hypothesis with self-perceived mate value—an assessment of one’s potential mating success. As hypothesized, because most individuals (eventually) seek long-term relationships, self-perceived long-term mate value predicted life satisfaction for men and women regardless of relationship status. In contrast, and also as hypothesized, self-perceived short-term mate value predicted life satisfaction only for individuals with short-term mating goals—single uncommitted men (Studies 1, 2A, and 2B), individuals dispositionally motivated toward short-term relationships (Studies 2A and 2B), and single uncommitted women for whom short-term mating motivation was experimentally engaged, enabling causal inference (Study 3). Results support a functional conceptualization of life satisfaction, showing that currently active mating goals can shape the extent to which goal-specific self-perceived mate value predicts life satisfaction.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Robert Caton ◽  
Sean M. Horan

Drawing on data from 1,993 participants, we demonstrated that deceptive affectionate messages (DAMs; e.g., faking sexual pleasure, expressing affection when feeling negatively) are the behavioral output of an evolved psychological system that strategically operates to maintain significant pair bonds (i.e., high mate value partners)—but not non-significant pair bonds (i.e., low mate value partners)—and regulates the expression of this behavioral output depending on an underlying cost-benefit ratio. This system is uniquely and nonrandomly designed to increasingly generate DAMs when the target individual’s highly-valued partnership is under relational threat and increasingly withdraw DAMs when the highly-valued partnership is not under threat—but neither increasingly generate nor withdraw DAMs for non-valuable partnerships—to maximize the benefits afforded by valuable romantic partnerships.


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