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Evolutionary psychologists have hypothesized that men and women possess both long-term and short-term mating strategies, with men's short-term strategy differentially rooted in the desire for sexual variety. In this article, findings from a cross-cultural survey of 16,288 people across 10 major world regions (including North America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, Middle East, Africa, Oceania, South/Southeast Asia, and East Asia) demonstrate that sex differences in the desire for sexual variety are culturally universal throughout these world regions. Sex differences were evident regardless of whether mean, median, distributional, or categorical indexes of sexual differentiation were evaluated. Sex differences were evident regardless of the measures used to evaluate them. Among contemporary theories of human mating, pluralistic approaches that hypothesize sex differences in the evolved design of short-term mating provide the most compelling account of these robust empirical findings.
Department of Psychology, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625, United States; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; University of Louisville, United States; University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia; University of New Mexico, United States; Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines; University of Malta, Msida, Malta; Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Clemson University, United States; Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada; University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; Illinois State University, United States; National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil; The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia; University of Lima, Lima, Peru; Bogaziçi Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey; University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany; York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland; Al- Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco; University of Hawaii-Manoa, United States; Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology, Vienna, Austria; University of Catania, Catania, Italy; University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany; Knox College, United States; Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia; University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Centre d'Enseignement les Gazelles, Kinsasha-Gombe, Democratic Republic Congo; American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; Kwangju Health College, Shinchang-dong, South Korea; Institute of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; The Ruppin Institute, Emek Hefer, Israel; Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada; National Computerization Agency, Yongingsi Gyonggido, South Korea; City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; University of Idaho, United States; University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe; University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom; Loyola Marymount University, United States; University of Granada, Granada, Spain; University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana; Babes Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania; University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; KPMG Kyriacou Counsultants SA, Athens, Greece; Volyn Regional Hospital, Lutsk, Volyn, Ukraine; Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France; Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; University of Alabama, United States; Baylor University, United States; Queens University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom; University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile; Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Florida Atlantic University, United States; University of California at Davis, United States; University of Dar es Salaam, Dares Salaam, Tanzania; Ramapo College of New Jersey, United States; Cyprus College, Nicosia, Cyprus; Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland; University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji; Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; SUNY, Plattsburgh, United States; University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece; Netherlands Institute of Social Sexological Research, Utrecht, Netherlands; University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AL, Canada; University of Vienna Medical School, Vienna, Austria; University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan; Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; Couple Clinic Indonesia, Surabaya, Indonesia; Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands; Chonnam National University, Kwangju, South Korea; University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
