Several people today experience poor mating performance, that is, they face difficulties in starting and/or keeping an intimate relationship. On the basis of an evolutionary theoretical framework, it was hypothesized that poor mating performance would be predicted by poor flirting skills, poor mate signal-detection ability, and high shyness. By employing a sample of 587 Greek-speaking men and women, we found that more than 40% of our participants experienced difficulties in starting and/or keeping an intimate relationship. We also found that poor flirting skills, poor mate signal-detection ability, and high shyness were associated with poor performance in mating, especially with respect to starting an intimate relationship. The effect sizes and the odds ratios indicated that flirting skills had the largest effect on mating performance, followed by the mate signal-detection ability and shyness.

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交配表现：评估调情技巧、交配信号检测能力和害羞效应。

如今，许多人的交配表现不佳，也就是说，他们在开始和/或维持亲密关系方面面临困难。基于进化理论框架，人们假设较差的调情技巧、较差的交配信号检测能力和高度害羞可以预测较差的交配表现。通过对 587 名希腊语男性和女性进行抽样调查，我们发现超过 40% 的参与者在建立和/或维持亲密关系方面遇到困难。我们还发现，较差的调情技巧、较差的求偶信号检测能力和高度害羞与较差的交配表现有关，尤其是在开始亲密关系方面。效应大小和比值比表明，调情技巧对交配表现的影响最大，其次是交配信号检测能力和害羞程度。