This handbook showcases the empirical and theoretical advancements in the evolutionary study of romantic relationships, tracing the psychological mechanisms that shape strategic computation and behavior across the lifespan of an intimate partnership. Written by global experts in their fields, each chapter provides an overview of historic and contemporary research on the psychological mechanisms and processes underlying initiation, maintenance, and dissolution of
romantic relationships. The volume discusses popular and cutting-edge methods for data analysis and theory development, critically analyzing the state of evolutionary relationship science. It provides
discerning recommendations for future research and integrates a broad range of topics (e.g., partner preference and selection, competition and conflict, jealousy and mate guarding, parenting, partner loss and divorce, and post-relationship affiliation) that are discussed alongside major sources of strategic variation in mating behavior, such as sex and gender diversity, developmental life history, neuroendocrine processes, technological advancement, and culture. The
Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Romantic Relationships enriches students' and established researchers' views across a diverse cross-section of relationship scholars and clinicians to
incorporate evolutionary theorizing into their professional work, including those interested in social change and continuity in social and cultural psychology, sociology, political science, healthcare, and related fields.
This handbook showcases the empirical and theoretical advancements in the evolutionary study of romantic relationships, tracing the psychological mechanisms that shape strategic computation and behavior across the lifespan of an intimate partnership. Written by global experts in their fields, each chapter provides an overview of historic and contemporary research on the psychological mechanisms and processes underlying initiation, maintenance, and dissolution of
romantic relationships. The volume discusses popular and cutting-edge methods for data analysis and theory development, critically analyzing the state of evolutionary relationship science. It provides
discerning recommendations for future research and integrates a broad range of topics (e.g., partner preference and selection, competition and conflict, jealousy and mate guarding, parenting, partner loss and divorce, and post-relationship affiliation) that are discussed alongside major sources of strategic variation in mating behavior, such as sex and gender diversity, developmental life history, neuroendocrine processes, technological advancement, and culture. The
Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Romantic Relationships enriches students' and established researchers' views across a diverse cross-section of relationship scholars and clinicians to
incorporate evolutionary theorizing into their professional work, including those interested in social change and continuity in social and cultural psychology, sociology, political science, healthcare, and related fields.
Introduction
Justin K. Mogilski and Todd K. Shackelford
Part 1: Relationship Initiation
1. The sexual selection of human mating strategies: Mate
preferences and competition tactics
David M. Buss
2. Physical cues of partner quality
Ian D. Stephen and Severi Luoto
3. The three Cs of psychological mate preference: The psychological
traits people want in their romantic and sexual partners
Peter K. Jonason and Evita March
4. Partner evaluation and selection
Norman P. Li and Bryan K. C. Choy
5. Hormonal mechanisms of partnership formation
Anastasia Makhanova
6. Human intersexual courtship
Neil R. Caton, David M. G. Lewis, Laith Al-Shawaf, and Kortnee C.
Evans
7. Intrasexual mating competition
Jaimie Arona Krems, Hannah K. Bradshaw, and Laureon A. Merrie
8. Initiation of non-heterosexual relationships
Jaroslava Varella Valentova, Bruno Henrique Amaral, and Marco
Antonio Correa Varella
9. Relationship initiation among older adults
Chaya Koren and Liat Ayalon
10. Cross-cultural variation in relationship initiation
Victor Karandashev
Part 2: Relationship Maintenance
11. Sexual conflict during relationship maintenance
Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Trond Viggo Grøntvedt, Andrea Melanie
Kessler, and Mons Bendixen
12. Jealousy in close relationships from an evolutionary and
cultural perspective: Responding to real and feared rivals
Abraham P. Buunk and Karlijn Massar
13. Hormonal mechanisms of in-pair mating and maintenance
Amanda Denes, John P. Crowley, and Anuraj Dhillon
14. Mate guarding and partner defection avoidance
Valerie G. Starratt
15. Intimate partner violence and relationship maintenance
Gordon G. Gallup, Jr. and Rebecca L. Burch
16. Parenting and relationship maintenance
Elizabeth M. Westrupp, Emma M. Marshall, Clair Bennett, Michelle
Benstead, Gabriella King, and Gery C. Karantzas
17. Maintaining multi-partner relationships: Evolution, sexual
ethics, and consensual non-monogamy
Justin K. Mogilski, David L. Rodrigues, Justin. J. Lehmiller, and
Rhonda N. Balzarini
18. Evolutionary perspectives on relationship maintenance across
the spectrum of sexual and gender diversity
Lisa M. Diamond and Jenna Alley
19. Relationship maintenance in older adults: Considering social
and evolutionary psychological perspectives
Ledina Imami and Christopher R. Agnew
20. Cultural variation in relationship maintenance
Lora Adair and Nelli Ferenczi
Part 3: Relationship Dissolution
21. Relationship dissatisfaction and partner access deficits
T. Joel Wade, James B. Moran, and Maryanne L. Fisher
22. In-pair divestment
Simona Sciara and Giuseppe Pantaleo
23. Mate poaching, infidelity, and mate switching
Joshua Everett Ryan and Edward P. Lemay, Jr.
24. Menstrual cycle variation in women's mating psychology:
Empirical evidence and theoretical considerations
Jan Havlícek and S. Craig Roberts
25. Affective reactions to divorce or spousal death
Jeannette Brodbeck and Hans Joerg Znoj
26. Affective self-regulation after relationship dissolution
Leah E. LeFebvre and Ryan D. Rasner
27. Post-relationship romance
Michael R. Langlais and He Xiao
28. Evolutionary perspectives on post-separation parenting
Lawrence J. Moloney and Bruce M. Smyth
29. Dissolution of LGBTQ+ relationships
Madeleine Redlick Holland and Pamela J. Lannutti
30. Relationship dissolution among older adults
Dimitri Mortelmans
Conclusion
Justin K. Mogilski and Todd K. Shackelford
Justin K. Mogilski earned his Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology from
Oakland University in 2017. He is an Assistant Professor at the
University of South Carolina, Salkehatchie. He researches how
evolution has shaped brain computation to adaptively guide the
decisions that people make to initiate, maintain, and dissolve
intimate relationships. He has published evolutionary, social,
personality, and sexual psychology journals on topics spanning
mate
poaching, infidelity, cross-gender friendship, intimate partner
conflict, moral decision-making, morphometric cues of partner
attractiveness, and multivariate statistical analyses of human mate
preference.
Todd K. Shackelford received his Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology
from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. Since 2010, he is
Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland
University in Rochester, Michigan. Shackelford has published around
400 journal articles and his work has been cited around 28,000
times. Much of Shackelford's research addresses sexual conflict
between men and women, with a focus on men's physical, emotional,
and sexual violence
against their intimate partners.
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