Abstract Bondage/discipline, Dominance/submission, and Sadism/Masochism (BDSM) have
gained increased attention and discussion in recent years. This prevalence is accompanied …

The majority of social psychological studies using evaluative conditioning have focused on
how change is triggered in emotional dispositions to human faces. Our aim was to test …

Body constitution plays an important role in human mate choice. Cross-cultural research
reports that women on average prefer men with muscular physique. It is still unclear …

Early exposure to parental features shapes later sexual preferences in fish, birds, and
mammals. Here I report that human males' preferences for a conspicuous trait, colourful …

本研究基于生命史理论和父亲投资理论, 探讨从童年环境到女性拥有“花心” 伴侣的预测机制.
研究1 采用问卷法, 以250 名有恋爱经历的未婚女性为研究对象, 结果显示: 童年环境不可预测性 …

Generalization has been suggested as a basic mechanism in forming impressions about
unfamiliar people. In this study, we investigated how social evaluations will be transferred to …

Human sexual orientation is an intriguing phenomenon, still poorly understood but with
important evolutionary implications. Evolutionary-based studies mostly focus on …

It is generally believed that people tend to be attracted to and pair with others who resemble
their opposite-sex parents. Studies 1A (n= 1,025) and 1B (n= 3,105) tested this assumption …

Sexual imprinting refers to the phenomena where an individual's mate selection behavior is
influenced by the characteristics of their parents in the early stages of life. Previous studies …

Theories of mate selection debate about whether people tend to choose partners based on
similarities to their parents. The present study aimed to address whether a similarity in how …