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Title: Mating Performance: Assessing Flirting Skills, Mate Signal-Detection Ability, and Shyness Effects
Authors: Apostolou, Menelaos 
Papadopoulou, Irene 
Christofi, Michael 
Vrontis, Demetris 
Major Field of Science: Social Sciences
Field Category: Economics and Business
Keywords: flirting;mating;mating performance;mismatch;shyness
Issue Date: 1-Jul-2019
Source: Evolutionary Psychology, 2019, vol. 17, iss. 3
Volume: 17
Issue: 3
Journal: Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior 
Abstract: 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.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/30030
ISSN: 14747049
14747049
DOI: 10.1177/1474704919872416
Rights: © Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Type: Article
Affiliation : University of Nicosia 
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed
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