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In evolutionary psychology and behavioral ecology, human mating strategies are a set of behaviors used by individuals to select, attract, and retain mates.Mating strategies overlap with reproductive strategies, which encompass a broader set of behaviors involving the timing of reproduction and the trade-off between quantity and quality of offspring.
Sexual attraction is attraction on the basis of sexual desire or the quality of arousing such interest. [1] Sexual attractiveness or sex appeal is an individual's ability to attract other people sexually, and is a factor in sexual selection or mate choice .
[17] [page needed] Thus, the ovulatory shift hypothesis proposes that women possess a dual sexuality, where during the fertile window, a woman should prioritize attracting and choosing a mate with the best genetic quality, or “good genes”, since this is the only time she can become pregnant and pass on heritable genetic qualities to her ...
Mate preferences in humans refers to why one human chooses or chooses not to mate with another human and their reasoning why (see: Evolutionary Psychology, mating).Men and women have been observed having different criteria as what makes a good or ideal mate.
Sexual attraction is attraction on the basis of sexual desire or the quality of arousing such interest. [ 157 ] [ 158 ] Sexual attractiveness or sex appeal is an individual's ability to attract the sexual or erotic interest of another person and is a factor in sexual selection or mate choice .
Factors in female mate choice include the woman's own perceived attractiveness, the woman's personal resources, mate copying and parasite stress. [67] Romantic love is the mechanism through which long-term mate choice occurs in human females.
Women also tend to be more attracted to men who are taller than they are, and display a high degree of facial symmetry, as well as relatively masculine facial dimorphism. [37] [38] Based on contemporary research and surveys, women, regardless of sexual orientation, are just as interested in a partner's physical attractiveness as men are.
Women gave samples of when they were fertile and less fertile. The men in the study would smell and choose which sample between the two they were more attracted to. Women give off a more favorable smell the more fertile they are; in other words, men notice this and choose the more fertile sample rather than the less fertile sample. [49]