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Adding the missing link back into mate choice research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

Rui Mata ,
Andreas Wilke  and
Peter M. Todd
Rui Mata*
Affiliation:
International Max Planck Research School LIFE, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany www.imprs-life.mpg.de
Andreas Wilke*
Affiliation:
International Max Planck Research School LIFE, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany www.imprs-life.mpg.de
Peter M. Todd*
Affiliation:
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany http://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/abc
*
mata@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
wilke@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
ptodd@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
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Evolutionary psychologists should go beyond research on individual differences in attitudes and focus more on detailed models of psychological mechanisms. We argue for complementing attitude research with agent-based computational modeling of mate choice. Agent-based models require detailed specification of individual choice mechanisms that can be evaluated in terms of both their psychological plausibility and the population-level outcomes they produce.

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Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 289
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005