"Authenticity is positively associated with emotional intelligence and good relational outcomes, and negatively associated with PHTG mating strategies and Dark Triad traits. Authentic individuals indicate that they engage in “being yourself” dating behavior when looking for serious relationships, and when in serious relationships. Additionally, our findings suggest that individuals engaging in “being yourself” dating behavior are generally preferred as dating partners over more game-playing individuals. Moreover, authentic men possess a special antipathy towards more game-playing females, thereby facilitating assortative mating with women more inclined to be themselves. High Dark Triad men show a preference for more game-playing females.
Through our vignette manipulation we found that rejection sensitive individuals report that they would be more likely to make themselves available in a dating context when made to feel safe to be themselves. Rejection sensitive individuals act more like secure people when made to feel safe to be themselves. Taken together, the results of these four studies suggest that authentic, securely attached, and low narcissistic individuals may engage in being yourself dating behavior to
facilitate the development of successful long-term relationships.
A dating strategy utilizing “being yourself” dating behavior can be understood from an evolutionary perspective in terms of costly signaling theory (Zahavi, 1977). Authenticity in relationships (i.e. honesty and intimate risk taking) requiring dating behavior that displays emotional transparency, availability, and interest can be costly when it requires exposing emotional vulnerability to those that might be rejecting. Such interpersonal costs may make “being yourself” dating behavior an honest signal of mate value as a long-term partner. “Being yourself” might reflect a “slow life history strategy” (Kaplan &Gangestad, 2005) oriented towards high parental investment facilitated by long-term pairbonding for biparental care. Future research might explore if individuals that engage in “be yourself” dating behavior later
demonstrate high parental investment to establish that advertising authenticity while dating is an honest signal of future parenting behavio"
Via @[597615153:2048:Jasmine St. John]
Through our vignette manipulation we found that rejection sensitive individuals report that they would be more likely to make themselves available in a dating context when made to feel safe to be themselves. Rejection sensitive individuals act more like secure people when made to feel safe to be themselves. Taken together, the results of these four studies suggest that authentic, securely attached, and low narcissistic individuals may engage in being yourself dating behavior to
facilitate the development of successful long-term relationships.
A dating strategy utilizing “being yourself” dating behavior can be understood from an evolutionary perspective in terms of costly signaling theory (Zahavi, 1977). Authenticity in relationships (i.e. honesty and intimate risk taking) requiring dating behavior that displays emotional transparency, availability, and interest can be costly when it requires exposing emotional vulnerability to those that might be rejecting. Such interpersonal costs may make “being yourself” dating behavior an honest signal of mate value as a long-term partner. “Being yourself” might reflect a “slow life history strategy” (Kaplan &Gangestad, 2005) oriented towards high parental investment facilitated by long-term pairbonding for biparental care. Future research might explore if individuals that engage in “be yourself” dating behavior later
demonstrate high parental investment to establish that advertising authenticity while dating is an honest signal of future parenting behavio"
Via @[597615153:2048:Jasmine St. John]