The out-of-my-league effect
- PMID: 28327242
- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X16000534
The out-of-my-league effect
Abstract
When taking into account the chances of success, strategic mating motivations do imply a bias not toward the most attractive individuals, but toward average or mildly attractive individuals, undermining the explanation of Maestripieri et al. at a fundamental level. This leaves open the possibility of alternative explanations and calls for a full-fledged explicit model of courtship behavior.
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Explaining financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive people: Interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, social psychology, and evolutionary psychology.Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan;40:e19. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16000340. Epub 2016 Jun 10. Behav Brain Sci. 2017. PMID: 27283466 Review.
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