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Why is creativity attractive in a potential mate?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2008

Daniel Nettle
Daniel Nettle
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Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE2 4HH, United Kingdom. Daniel.nettle@ncl.ac.ukwww.danielnettle.info
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Abstract

A number of studies suggest that women find artistically creative men attractive, especially in the short-term mating context. Artistic creativity (but not mathematical or technical creativity) is linked to psychosis-proneness. I hypothesise that in preferring artistically creative men, women may be choosing paternal genotypes that make babies that are not excessively somatically demanding on them.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , June 2008 , pp. 275 - 276
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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