Cooperative Courtship: Helping Friends Raise and Raze Relationship Barriers
Cooperative Courtship: Helping Friends Raise and Raze Relationship Barriers
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DOI：
10.1177/0146167209335640
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发表时间：
2009-10-01
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Kenrick, Douglas T.
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作者：
Ackerman, Joshua M.;Kenrick, Douglas T.
人们会互相帮助建立浪漫的关系吗？社会环境在关系形成中的作用的研究传统上集中在竞争上，但本文研究了求偶互动中的新合作模式。从功能/进化的角度来看，女性主要在建立浪漫的门槛和障碍方面进行合作;男性主要在实现浪漫的访问方面进行合作。为了支持这些预测，四项研究表明，人们一贯认为合作，报告合作行为，并在浪漫的情况下作出合作的决定。人们向异性朋友提供的帮助模式也与向同性朋友提供的相反，这表明援助是根据接受者的浪漫选择性的差异灵活调整的。研究表明，合作求爱是一套常用的交配策略，人们可以通过这种策略在功能上定制援助，以促进自己和朋友的浪漫关系兴趣。
Do people help each other form romantic relationships? Research on the role of the social environment in relationship formation has traditionally focused on competition, but this article investigates novel patterns of cooperation within courtship interactions. Drawing on a functional/evolutionary perspective, women are predicted to cooperate primarily in building romantic thresholds and barriers; men are predicted to cooperate primarily in achieving romantic access. In support of these predictions, four studies reveal that people consistently perceive cooperation, report cooperative behavior, and make cooperative decisions in romantic situations. People also provide the opposite pattern of help to opposite-sex friends from that provided to same-sex friends, suggesting that assistance is flexibly tuned to differences in the romantic selectivity of recipients. Cooperative courtship is revealed to be a commonly used set of mating strategies by which people functionally tailor aid to promote both their own and their friends' romantic relationship interests.