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Sexual Strategies Theory: An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Mating
David M. Buss and David P. Schmitt
“This article proposes a contextualevolutionary theory of human mating strategies. Both men and
women are hypathesized to have evolved distinct psychological mechs
isms that underlie short-
term ang longterm strategies, Men and women confront different adaptive problems in shor-term
1s opposed to long-ierm mating contexts. Consequently, different mate preferences become acti-
‘vated from their strategic repertoires. Nine key hypotheses and 22 predictions from Sexual Strats-
ies Theory are outlined and tested empirically. Adaptive problems sensitive to context include
sexual accessibility, fertility assessment, commitment seeking and avoidance, immediate and en-