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Does the Quality of Mating Competitors Affect Socio-Political Attitudes? An Experimental Test
Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology Pub Date : 2020-09-30 , DOI: 10.1007/s40750-020-00151-3
Francesca R. Luberti , Khandis R. Blake , Robert C. Brooks

Objectives

Individual differences in socio-political attitudes can reflect mating interests, and attitudes can also shift in response to mating market cues, including mating competitor quality. In four experiments, we tested whether competitors’ attractiveness (Experiments 1F&1M) and income (Experiments 2F&2M) would influence socio-political attitudes (participants’ self-reported attitudes towards promiscuity and sexual liberalism, traditional gender roles, and the minimum wage and healthcare).

Methods

We collected data from American participants online through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (total N = 787). In all experiments, each participant was randomly assigned to one of four experimental treatments in a between-subjects design (three levels of mating competitor quality and a control group), and to one of five stimuli within each treatment.

Results

Overall, the experimental treatments largely did not predict participants’ socio-political attitudes. The fifteen unique experimental stimuli, however, did significantly affect participants’ perception of their competitors’ quality. That perception, in turn, affected some socio-political attitudes. Namely, individuals who perceived their competitors to be of high mate-value were more supportive of traditional gender roles and, only for men in Experiment 2M, more opposed to promiscuity and sexual liberalism than individuals who perceived competitors to be of low mate-value. These results only applied to sexually unrestricted, but not restricted, women. Perceived mating competition did not affect attitudes towards the minimum wage and healthcare.

Conclusions

Experimental cues of mating competition shifted participants’ perceptions of their competitors’ mating quality and these perceptions in turn shifted some socio-political attitudes. We interpret these results considering broader arguments about plasticity in socio-political attitudes.



中文翻译:

交配对手的素质会影响社会政治态度吗?实验测试

目标

社会政治态度上的个体差异可以反映交配的兴趣,并且态度也可以根据交配的市场线索(包括竞争对手的交配质量)而变化。在四个实验中,我们测试了竞争对手的吸引力(实验1F&1M)和收入(实验2F&2M)是否会影响社会政治态度(参与者自我报告的对滥交和性自由主义的态度,传统的性别角色以及最低工资和医疗保健) 。

方法

我们通过亚马逊的Mechanical Turk在线收集了来自美国参与者的数据(总N  = 787)。在所有实验中,每个受试者被随机分配至受试者间设计中的四种实验治疗方法之一(三种水平的交配竞争者素质和对照组),以及每种治疗方法中的五种刺激之一。

结果

总体而言,实验方法在很大程度上没有预测参与者的社会政治态度。但是,这十五种独特的实验刺激确实极大地影响了参与者竞争对手质量的看法。这种看法反过来影响了一些社会政治态度。即,认为竞争对手的伴侣价值较高的人比传统的性别角色更支持男性,并且仅对于实验2M中的男性,他们认为自己的竞争对手比伴侣价值低的人更反对滥交和性自由主义。这些结果仅适用于不受性别限制但不受限制的女性。知觉的交配竞争并没有影响人们对最低工资和医疗保健的态度。

结论

交配比赛的实验线索改变了参与者对其竞争对手的交配质量的认识,而这些观念又改变了一些社会政治态度。在解释这些结果时,我们考虑了关于社会政治态度中可塑性的广泛争论。

更新日期:2020-09-30
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