Above and beyond short-term mating, long-term mating is uniquely tied to human personality

  • Nicholas S. Holtzman
  • , Michael J. Strube

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Abstract

To what extent are personality traits and sexual strategies linked? The literature does not provide a clear answer, as it is based on the Sociosexuality model, a one-dimensional model that fails to measure long-term mating (LTM). An improved two-dimensional model separately assesses long-term and short-term mating (STM; Jackson and Kirkpatrick, 2007). In this paper, we link this two-dimensional model to an array of personality traits (Big 5, Dark Triad, and Schizoid Personality). We collected data from different sources (targets and peers; Study 1), and from different nations (United States, Study 1; India, Study 2). We demonstrate for the first time that, above and beyond STM, LTM captures variation in personality.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1101-1129
Number of pages29
JournalEvolutionary Psychology
Volume11
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2013

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