Attachment Fertility Theory: Complex Systems of Mechanisms Simplify Sex, Mating, and Sexual Risks.
Attachment Fertility Theory: Complex Systems of Mechanisms Simplify Sex, Mating, and Sexual Risks.
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DOI：
10.1080/1047840x.2013.817322
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发表时间：
2013-07
影响因子：
9.3
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Appleby PR
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作者：
Miller LC;Christensen JL;Pedersen WC;Putcha-Bhagavatula A;Appleby PR
性和交配是进化过程的核心。了解影响男性和女性性决策的因素，包括进化的机制，是科学家和广大公众感兴趣的。但是，对于试图开发更有效的干预措施来解决当今重要的健康问题(例如，在高危人群中预防艾滋病毒，导致艾滋病的性传播病毒)的研究人员来说，“正确”是至关重要的。在目前的工作中，我们简要介绍了依恋生育理论(AFT；Miller&Fishkin，1997；Miller，Pedersen，&Putcha-Bhagavatula，2005；Miller，Putcha-Bhagavatua，&Pedersen，2002；Pedersen，Putcha-Bhagavatula，&Miller，2011)，以及Stewart-Williams和Thomas的方法(本期)，然后讨论了这些方法之间的共同点和差异。AFT为理解个体内和个体间的性别差异(例如，从短期关系到配对关系)提供统一、普遍(性别相似)框架的能力指导了独特的研究问题，包括在艾滋病毒预防研究中。它对高危人群(例如，与男性发生性行为的男性)与许多性伴侣进行高水平的性行为(以及无保护的肛交[UAI])做到了这一点。有人可能会认为，男男性行为高危人群(MSM)不太可能是测试AFT预测的人群。然而，我们简要地提出了一组新的发现，证明了AFT在开发关于性行为和性风险承担的可测试假设方面是多么的普遍和有用。最后，结合我们的结论，我们讨论了需要哪些工具来更好地理解进化机制的系统，并推进该领域未来的工作。
Sex and mating are central to evolutionary processes. Understanding the factors, including the evolved mechanisms, affecting men’s and women’s sexual decision making, is of interest to scientists, and the public at large. But “getting it right” is critical to researchers trying to develop more effective interventions to address today’s important health issues (eg, preventing HIV, the sexually transmitted virus that causes AIDS, in high-risk populations). In the current work, we briefly describe attachment fertility theory (AFT; Miller & Fishkin, 1997; Miller, Pedersen, & Putcha-Bhagavatula, 2005; Miller, Putcha-Bhagavatua, & Pedersen, 2002; Pedersen, Miller, Putcha-Bhagavatula, & Yang, 2002; Pedersen, Putcha-Bhagavatula, & Miller, 2011), and Stewart-Williams and Thomas’s (this issue) approach, then we discuss the communalities and differences between these approaches. AFT’s ability to provide a unified, universal (sex-similar) framework for understanding intraindividual and interindividual sexual diversity (eg, from short-term relationships to pair-bonds) has guided unique research questions, including in HIV prevention research. It has done so with high-risk populations (eg, men who have sex with men) who engage in high levels of sex (and unprotected anal intercourse [UAI]) with numerous sexual partners. One might think that high-risk men who have sex with men (MSM) might be an unlikely population for testing AFT’s predictions. Nevertheless, we briefly present a new set of findings that demonstrates how generalizable and useful AFT can be in developing testable hypotheses regarding sexual behaviors and sexual risk taking. Finally, along with our conclusions, we discuss what tools are needed to better understand systems of evolved mechanisms and advance future work in this field.