ABSTRACT
This book introduces a new construct called ‘Mating Intelligence’ (MI) which concerns cognitive processes that uniquely apply to the domain of human mating, sexuality, and intimate relationships. This MI construct encompasses both species-typical psychological adaptations (such as the perceptual, cognitive, and decision-making processes for evaluating an individual’s potential as a long-term mate), and a set of individual differences in the efficiencies, parameters, and design details of those traits. Although we all have some ability to assess who is attractive (a speciestypical adaptation), some of us are better at this than are others (i.e., we show individual differences in adaptive functioning).
