Objectives

The phenomenon of mate copying (MC) suggests that an individual’s romantic desirability varies, to some degree, as a function of their romantic experiences. By manipulating relationship history, this research aimed to determine whether male desirability varied similarly for static stimuli (photographs) as it did for dynamic stimuli (short clips). Here we present 2 studies examining this idea.

Methods

In both studies heterosexual women aged 18–34 were recruited from social media and evaluated the desirability of men, before and after being given information about the level of relationship experience the men had previously had (either ‘none’, ‘some’, or ‘lots’).

Results

In Study 1 (N = 278), we employed static images of men and Study 2 (N = 66) was methodologically similar but employed dynamic stimuli. Study 1 indicated that a man’s desirability to heterosexual women increased when it was revealed that he had a moderate amount of relationship experience but decreased if he had none. Results from Study 2 suggested that desirability was not affected by an individual’s relationship experience.

Conclusions

MC was indicated when stimuli were static, but not when they were dynamic. These results suggest that MC may be a phenomenon that exists to a greater extent when stimuli are less informative.

中文翻译：

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您所看到的可能就是您想要的：在自然环境中进行配对复制

目标

配偶复制（MC）现象表明，一个人的浪漫愿望在某种程度上会随着他们的浪漫经历而变化。通过操纵关系历史，这项研究旨在确定男性对静态刺激（照片）的渴望是否与动态刺激（短片）相似。在这里，我们提出了两项​​研究来检验这个想法。

方法

在这两项研究中，从社交媒体招募了 18 至 34 岁的异性恋女性，并在获得有关男性之前拥有的关系经历水平的信息（“没有”、“有”或“”）之前和之后评估了男性的吸引力。很多”）。

结果

在研究 1 ( N  = 278) 中，我们采用了男性的静态图像，研究 2 ( N  = 66) 在方法上相似，但采用了动态刺激。研究1表明，当一个男人被揭露有一定的恋爱经历时，他对异性恋女性的渴望就会增加，但如果他没有恋爱经历，他对异性恋女性的渴望就会下降。研究 2 的结果表明，吸引力不受个人关系经历的影响。

结论

当刺激是静态时，MC 被指示，但当刺激是动态时，则不指示。这些结果表明，当刺激信息较少时，MC 可能会在更大程度上存在。