Talk:Mate value

Potential for creation of a new page (under construction)
For our university project, we wanted to create a page about mate value and provide detailed background research about different areas within this topic. Some areas that we are interested in include:


 * Sex differences
 * Mate value and aggression
 * Evolution of mate value
 * Effect of attractiveness cues on mate value
 * Mate value influencing mate guarding
 * Cross-cultural differences
 * Mate value and self-esteem
 * Own mate value and its effect on other mate qualities

We will initially highlight the differences between mate choice and mate value, followed by subsections including studies and evidence explaining the areas mentioned above. The references we will be using to aid us in our research of this topic, amongst others, include:

Brase, G. L., & Guy, E. C. (2004). The demographics of mate value and self-esteem. Personality and Individual Differences, 36(2), 471-484.

Penke, L., & Denissen, J. J. (2008). Sex differences and lifestyle-dependent shifts in the attunement of self-esteem to self-perceived mate value: Hints to an adaptive mechanism?. Journal of Research in Personality, 42(4), 1123-1129.

Goodwin, R., Marshall, T., Fülöp, M., Adonu, J., Spiewak, S., Neto, F., & Plaza, S. H. (2012). Mate value and self-esteem: Evidence from eight cultural groups. PLoS One, 7(4), e36106.

Tadinac, M., & Hromatko, I. (2007). Own mate value and relative importance of a potential mate's qualities. Studia Psychologica, 49(3), 251.

Sunderani, S., Arnocky, S., & Vaillancourt, T. (2013). Individual differences in mate poaching: an examination of hormonal, dispositional, and behavioral mate-value traits. Archives of sexual behavior, 42(4), 533-542.

Hromatko, I., Tadinac, M., & Prizmić, H. (2006). Women's hormonal status and mate value influence relationship satisfaction and perceived male attractiveness. Psihologijske teme, 15(2), 315-330. Buss, David M. "Human mate guarding." Neuroendocrinology Letters 23, no. Suppl 4 (2002): 23-29.

Haselton, M. G., & Gangestad, S. W. (2006). Conditional expression of women's desires and men's mate guarding across the ovulatory cycle.Hormones and behavior, 49(4), 509-518.

Mathews, L. M. (2003). Tests of the mate-guarding hypothesis for social monogamy: male snapping shrimp prefer to associate with high-value females. Behavioral Ecology, 14(1), 63-67.

Swami, V., & Tovée, M. J. (2005). Female physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia: A cross-cultural study. Body Image, 2(2), 115-128.

Schwartz, S. H., & Rubel, T. (2005). Sex differences in value priorities: cross-cultural and multimethod studies. Journal of personality and social psychology, 89(6), 1010.

Singh, Devendra, Barbara J. Dixson, Thomas S. Jessop, Bethan Morgan, and Alan F. Dixson. "Cross-cultural consensus for waist–hip ratio and women's attractiveness." Evolution and Human Behavior 31, no. 3 (2010): 176-181.

Feinberg, D. R. (2008). Are human faces and voices ornaments signaling common underlying cues to mate value?. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 17(2), 112-118.

Singh, D. (2002). Female mate value at a glance: Relationship of waist-to-hip ratio to health, fecundity and attractiveness. Neuroendocrinology letters,23(Suppl 4), 81-91.

Sugiyama, L. S. (2004). Is beauty in the context-sensitive adaptations of the beholder?: Shiwiar use of waist-to-hip ratio in assessments of female mate value. Evolution and Human Behavior, 25(1), 51-62.

Little, A. C., Burt, D. M., Penton-Voak, I. S., & Perrett, D. I. (2001). Self-perceived attractiveness influences human female preferences for sexual dimorphism and symmetry in male faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 268(1462), 39-44.

Barbara, M. (2007). Sex and perceptions of mate value in women: An evolutionary perspective. Information & Learning, 68, 1-17.

Hamida, S. B., Mineka, S., & Bailey, M. (1998). Sex differences in perceived controllability of mate value: An evolutionary perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74 (4), 953-966.

Regan, P. C. (1998). What if you can’t get what you want? Willingness to compromise ideal mate selection standards as a function of sex, mate value, and relationship context. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 24 (12), 1294-1303.

Kirkpatrick, L. A., Waugh, C. E., Valencia, A., & Webster, G. D. (2002). The functional domain specificity of self-esteem and the differential prediction of aggression. Journal of personality and social psychology, 82(5), 756.

Archer, J., & Thanzami, V. (2009). The relation between mate value, entitlement, physical aggression, size and strength among a sample of young Indian men. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30(5), 315-321.

Buss, D. M., & Duntley, J. D. (2006). The evolution of aggression. Evolution and social psychology, 263-286.

Buss, D. M., Shackelford, T. K., Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Larsen, R. J. (2001). A half century of mate preferences: The cultural evolution of values. Journal of Marriage and Family, 63(2), 491-503.

L.Flank (talk) 16:29, 16 February 2016 (UTC) Smandalia (talk) 17:54, 16 February 2016 (UTC) Rtillman04 (talk)

Renamed page
Since the page primarily describes mate value in humans (as opposed to other animals), I've changed the page name from Mate_value to Mate_value_in_humans. There should definitely eventually be a dedicated page about the broader concept as well though. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 12:18, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Reverted. Maybe there should eventually be one, but there is not, so the long title does not serve the readers. No such user (talk) 18:29, 23 May 2018 (UTC)