Mating strategies in Chinese culture : female risk avoiding vs. male risk taking
Previous evolutionary literature demonstrating risk taking as a male mating strategy ignored cultural influences and the function of risk avoiding for women. The present research is the first to support the hypothesis that risk taking and risk avoiding, respectively, reflect Chinese male and female...
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| author | Shan, Wen Shenghua, Jin Davis, Hunter Morgan Peng, Kaiping Shao, Xiao Wu, Youyou Liu, Shuqing Lu, Jiewen Yang, Jinhua Zhang, Weiqing Qiao, Miao Wang, Jing Wang, Yi |
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| description | Previous evolutionary literature demonstrating risk taking as a male mating strategy ignored cultural influences and the function of risk avoiding for women. The present research is the first to support the hypothesis that risk taking and risk avoiding, respectively, reflect Chinese male and female mating strategies. In Study 1, when under the impression of being watched by the opposite sex, Chinese men took more risks and women took fewer risks than when watched by a same sex or alone. In Study 2, Chinese male risk taking and female risk avoiding were positively related to their mating-related evaluation of the opposite-sex observer, and these results were reinforced by behavioral findings in Study 3. The implications of the findings regarding Chinese traditional mate preference and the evolutionary mechanism behind it are discussed. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/998392023-05-19T06:44:42Z Mating strategies in Chinese culture : female risk avoiding vs. male risk taking Shan, Wen Shenghua, Jin Davis, Hunter Morgan Peng, Kaiping Shao, Xiao Wu, Youyou Liu, Shuqing Lu, Jiewen Yang, Jinhua Zhang, Weiqing Qiao, Miao Wang, Jing Wang, Yi Nanyang Business School DRNTU::Business Previous evolutionary literature demonstrating risk taking as a male mating strategy ignored cultural influences and the function of risk avoiding for women. The present research is the first to support the hypothesis that risk taking and risk avoiding, respectively, reflect Chinese male and female mating strategies. In Study 1, when under the impression of being watched by the opposite sex, Chinese men took more risks and women took fewer risks than when watched by a same sex or alone. In Study 2, Chinese male risk taking and female risk avoiding were positively related to their mating-related evaluation of the opposite-sex observer, and these results were reinforced by behavioral findings in Study 3. The implications of the findings regarding Chinese traditional mate preference and the evolutionary mechanism behind it are discussed. 2013-09-30T09:14:27Z 2019-12-06T20:12:12Z 2013-09-30T09:14:27Z 2019-12-06T20:12:12Z 2012 2012 Journal Article Shan, W., Shenghua, J., Davis, H. M., Peng, K., Shao, X., Wu, Y., Liu, S., Lu, J., Yang, J., Zhang, W., Qiao, M., Wang, J., & Wang, Y. (2012). Mating strategies in Chinese culture : female risk avoiding vs. male risk taking. Evolution and human behavior, 33(3), 182-192. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99839 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13753 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.09.001 en Evolution and human behavior |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Business Shan, Wen Shenghua, Jin Davis, Hunter Morgan Peng, Kaiping Shao, Xiao Wu, Youyou Liu, Shuqing Lu, Jiewen Yang, Jinhua Zhang, Weiqing Qiao, Miao Wang, Jing Wang, Yi Mating strategies in Chinese culture : female risk avoiding vs. male risk taking |
| title | Mating strategies in Chinese culture : female risk avoiding vs. male risk taking |
| title_full | Mating strategies in Chinese culture : female risk avoiding vs. male risk taking |
| title_fullStr | Mating strategies in Chinese culture : female risk avoiding vs. male risk taking |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mating strategies in Chinese culture : female risk avoiding vs. male risk taking |
| title_short | Mating strategies in Chinese culture : female risk avoiding vs. male risk taking |
| title_sort | mating strategies in chinese culture female risk avoiding vs male risk taking |
| topic | DRNTU::Business |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99839 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13753 |
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