The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology: Volume 3, Female Sexual Adaptations

540 Pages·2022·2.961 MB·English

by  Todd K. Shackelford

The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives
on Sexual Psychology
Volume 3: Female SexualAdaptations
The interface of sexual behavior and evolutionary psychology is a
rapidly growing domain, rich in psychological theories and data, as
wellascontroversiesandapplications.Withnearlyeightychaptersby
leadingresearchersfromaroundtheworld,andcombiningtheoretical
andempiricalperspectives,TheCambridgeHandbookofEvolutionary
PerspectivesonSexualPsychologyisthemostcomprehensiveandup-
to-date reference work in the field. Providing a broad yet in-depth
overviewofthevariousevolutionaryprinciplesthatinfluencealltypes
of sexual behaviors, the handbook takes an inclusive approach
that draws on a number of disciplines and covers nonhuman and
human psychology. It is an essential resource for both established
researchersandstudentsinpsychology,biology,anthropology,medi-
cine, and criminology, among other fields. Volume 3: Female Sexual
Adaptationsaddresses theory andresearchfocused on sexualadapta-
tions in human females.
todd k. shackelford is Distinguished Professor and Chair in the
Department of Psychology and Director of the Center for
Evolutionary Psychological Science at Oakland University in
Michigan, USA.
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The Cambridge Handbook of
Evolutionary Perspectives
on Sexual Psychology
Volume 3: Female Sexual Adaptations
Edited by
Todd K. Shackelford
OaklandUniversity,Michigan
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Contents
List of Contributors page vii
Preface ix
Part I. PrecopulatoryAdaptations 1
1 Women’sPreferences:PrecopulatoryAdaptations
donald f. sacco, mitchell brown, kaitlyn boykin,
alicia l. macchione, kelsey m. drea, and
mary m. medlin 3
2 FemaleSexualAttractionTactics
trond viggo grøntvedt, mons bendixen, and
leif edward ottesen kennair 33
3 Extra-PairSexualInterest
marissa a. harrison 57
4 FemaleIntrasexualCompetition
maryanne l. fisher 91
5 FemaleIntersexualSelection
steven arnocky, adam c. davis, and michael suszter 118
6 EvolutionofPrecopulatoryDefensefromRapeand
CoercioninWomen
domenic roberto, rachel james, and melissa mcdonald 151
7 MatePoaching
jasna hudek-knezevic, igor kardum, and
nermina mehic´ 174
Part II. Copulatory Adaptations 207
8 SexualFantasies
rui miguel costa 209
9 CopulatoryThrusting
olivia le moe¨ne 241
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10 FemaleProvisionofOralSex
james b. moran, catherine a. salmon, and rebecca
l. burch 267
11 TheAdaptiveValueofWomen’sOrgasm
lisa l. m. welling, virginia e. mitchell, jenna lunge,
and alex c. orille 290
12 CopulatoryUrgency:AnEvolutionaryPerspective
ofWomen’sSexualDesire
courtney l. crosby 319
Part III. Postcopulatory Adaptations 341
13 MateRetention
jitka lindova´ 343
14 ShiftsinPartnerAttractiveness
juliana e. french, sierra d. peters, olivia w. breedin,
emma e. altgelt, and andrea l. meltzer 374
15 EmotionalCommitment
marissa a. harrison 399
16 FemaleSexualJealousy
jaroslava varella valentova, marco antonio correa
varella, andrea lorena da costa stravogiannis,
ana maria fernandez, and tamsin saxton 426
17 OnAttachmentandEvolution:RecountingtheStoryof,
andStoriesin,AttachmentTheory
william l. dunlop and majse lind 462
18 MaternalFilicide
vibeke ottesen 493
Index 519
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Contributors
emma e. altgelt, Florida State University, USA
steven arnocky, Nipissing University, Canada
mons bendixen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
kaitlyn boykin, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
olivia w. breedin, Florida State University, USA
mitchell brown, University of Arkansas, USA
rebecca l. burch, State University of New York at Oswego, USA
rui miguel costa, ISPA–Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz, Portugal
courtney l. crosby, University of Texas at Austin, USA
adam c. davis, University of Ottawa, Canada
kelsey m. drea, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
william dunlop†, University of California, USA
ana maria fernandez, University of Santiago de Chile, Chile
maryanne l. fisher, Saint Mary’s University, Canada
juliana e. french, Florida State University, USA
trondviggogrøntvedt,NorwegianUniversityofScienceandTechnology,
Norway
marissa a. harrison, Pennsylvania State University, USA
jasna hudek-knezevic, University of Rijeka, Croatia
rachel james, Oakland University, USA
igor kardum, University of Rijeka, Croatia
leif edward ottesen kennair, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway
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olivia le moe¨ne, Linköping University, Sweden
majse lind, University of Florida, USA
jitka lindova´, Charles University, Czech Republic
jenna lunge, Oakland University, USA
alicia l. macchione, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
melissa mcdonald, Oakland University, USA
mary m. medlin, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
nermina mehic´, University of Rijeka, Croatia
andrea l. meltzer, Florida State University, USA
virginia e. mitchell, Oakland University, USA
james b. moran, Tulane University, USA
alex c. orille, Oakland University, USA
vibeke ottesen, University of Oslo, Norway
sierra d. peters, Florida State University, USA
domenic roberto, Oakland University, USA
donald f. sacco, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
catherine a. salmon, University of Redlands, USA
tamsin saxton, Northumbria University, UK
andrea lorena da costa stravogiannis, University of São Paulo, Brazil
michael suszter, Nipissing University, Canada
jaroslava varella valentova, University of São Paulo, Brazil
marco antonio correa varella, University of São Paulo, Brazil
lisa l. m. welling, Oakland University, USA
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Preface
Afewprevioushandbookshaveaddressedtheinterfaceofsexualbehaviorand
evolutionary psychology, but none have been as comprehensive as The
Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology.
These previous handbooks focused on the links between sexual psychology
and behavior within a single domain of the evolutionary psychological litera-
ture, such as the Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence,
Homicide, and War (published in 2012, edited by Shackelford and Weekes-
Shackelford) and the Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology
(published in 2011, edited by Salmon and Shackelford). Weekes-Shackelford
and Shackelford about a decade ago co-edited Evolutionary Perspectives on
HumanSexualPsychologyandBehavior(2012,publishedbySpringerNature).
In addition to being somewhat outdated, that volume focused on humans,
whereas the current volume includes work on nonhumans. Furthermore, the
Weekes-Shackelfordand Shackelfordvolumeincludedjusttwenty chapters in
a single volume, whereas the current handbook boasts nearly eighty chapters
acrossfourvolumesand, therefore,ismore comprehensive.
The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual
Psychology comprises four volumes of around twenty chapters each.
Chapters in Volume 1: Foundations address foundational theories and meth-
odological approaches. Chapters in Volume 2: Male Sexual Adaptations
address theory and research focused on sexual adaptations in human males.
ChaptersinVolume3:FemaleSexualAdaptationsaddresstheoryandresearch
focusedonsexualadaptationsinhumanfemales.Finally,chaptersinVolume
4: Controversies, Applications, and Nonhuman Primate Extensions address
controversies and unresolved issues; applications to health, law, and pornog-
raphy; and nonhuman primate evolved sexual psychology.
Evolutionary psychology is a vital area of the modern discipline of psych-
ology and, indeed, ofthe social,life, and behavioral sciences. The Cambridge
Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology is the most
comprehensive modern handbook for the field that addresses sexual psych-
ology and behavior. The four volumes provide a rich overview of the most
important theoretical and empirical work in the field. This handbook is
directed primarily to researchers and graduate students, but it will also be
usefulforadvancedundergraduates.Itprovidesacomprehensiveoverviewof
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the state of the art in evolutionary perspectives on sexual psychology that
affords both established researchers and students a rich and current under-
standing of the discipline.
Unlike most previous volumes in this area, which have been relatively
narrow in coverage, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives
on Sexual Psychology is broad and inclusive. In addition to the research
groups pioneering the field of evolutionary psychology in the Western world
(e.g., Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States), there is rapidly
growing interest in this field in other parts of the world. For example, there
has been a substantial increase in the contributions of Asian and South
American scholars to evolutionary psychology in recent years. The
Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology
provides these new scholars with a wide-ranging summary of this exciting
and ever-expanding field.
The selection of chapters and contributors for the handbook was deter-
mined by focusing on the breadth of the literature while attempting to maxi-
mizetheinternationalappealofthiswork.Chaptersaresufficientlylengthyto
afford detailed reviews of the relevant topics, but contributors also were
encouraged to avoid excessive description of individual studies. In addition,
contributors were instructed to include reference to work conducted by
scholars outside of North America and Europe in order to increase the
breadth of coverage and to generate additional interest in the handbook and
the field among scholars from other parts of the world. Where research from
other countries or cultures was not available, contributors were asked to
providetheir professionalevaluation ofpotentialculturalinfluencesonavail-
able empirical findings and to outline the degree to which available findings
are likely to generalize cross-culturally.
I hope readers find the four volumes of The Cambridge Handbook of
Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology as exciting to read as it was
for me to organize and edit. I am grateful to each of the several dozen
contributorsfromaroundtheworldfortheirtime,attention,andcommitment
to this unique resource, and to the editorial staff at Cambridge University
Press.
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