Heterosexual Rejection and Mate Choice: A Sociometer Perspective.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies about the effects of social rejection on individuals' social behaviors have produced mixed results and tend to study mating behaviors from a static point of view. However, mate selection in essence is a dynamic process, and therefore sociometer theory opens up a new perspective for studying mating and its underlying practices. Based on this theory and using self-perceived mate value in the relationship between heterosexual rejection and mate choice as a mediating role, this current study examined the effects of heterosexual rejection on mate choice in two experiments. Results showed that heterosexual rejection significantly reduced self-perceived mate value, expectation, and behavioral tendencies, while heterosexual acceptance indistinctively increased these measures. Self

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4665087 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature