Men, relative to women, can benefit their total reproductive success by engaging in short-term pluralistic mating. Yet not all men enact such a mating strategy. It has previously been hypothesized that high mate value men should be most likely to adopt a short-term mating strategy, with this prediction being firmly grounded in some important mid-level evolutionary psychological theories. Yet evidence to support such a link has been mixed. This paper presents a comprehensive meta-analysis of 33 published and unpublished studies (N = 5928) in which we find that that self-reported mate value accounts for roughly 6% of variance in men’s sociosexual orientation. The meta-analysis provides evidence that men’s self-perceived mate value positively predicts their tendency to engage in short-term mating, but that the total effect size is small.

相对于女性，男性可以通过参与短期多元交配来获得整体生殖成功。然而，并不是所有的男人都会制定这样的交配策略。此前有人假设，高配偶价值的男性最有可能采用短期交配策略，这一预测牢固地基于一些重要的中级进化心理学理论。然而，支持这种联系的证据有好有坏。本文对 33 项已发表和未发表的研究（N = 5928），其中我们发现自我报告的配偶价值约占男性社会性取向差异的 6%。荟萃分析提供的证据表明，男性的自我感知配偶价值积极预测了他们进行短期交配的倾向，但总效应量很小。