What Makes a Partner Ideal, and for Whom? Compatibility Tests, Filter Tests, and the Mating Stability Matrix

We introduce a typological characterization of possible human heterosexual couples in terms of the concordance-opposition of the orientations of their active and receptive areas as defined by the tie-up theory. We show that human mating incentives, as characterized by widely adopted approaches, such...

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Main Authors: Lorenza Lucchi Basili, Pier Luigi Sacco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-02-01
Series:Behavioral Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/10/2/48