Human_Mate_Poaching

Human Mate Poaching Human Mate Poaching: Traits, Tactics and Behavioral Influences It is a normal evolutionary part of every human to desire other human mates and want to be desired return by them. The ability to attract a mate generally means that reproduction of offspring will continue (Schmitt, 2001). Recent studies have shown that many tactics and techniques have and are being used all over the world to attract a mate (Schmitt, 2001). If however, these tactics are used on someone who is already in a relationship regardless of the nature, e.g. married, living together or dating, this is called mate poaching (Schmitt, 2001). Although most people consider this improper to do, nearly fifty percent of American men and thirty percent of American women in polled in recent studies (Schmitt, 2001) were the aggressor or poacher in the adulterous affair. Nor is this a strictly an American phenomenon. Other studies have show that around the world that sixty percent of men and forty-five percent of women have succumbed to mate poaching for a short-term affair (Schmitt, 2004), although, like the United States, their culture and religious backgrounds state that this behavior is widely viewed as being unacceptable (Rowatt, 2003). So why is there such a mate, poaching, schmitt, 2001, , mating, women, men, relationship, tactics, people, costs, short-term, percent, physical, human, however, between, traits, studies, poachers, poacher, long-term, although, already, 2004, religious, personalities, mates, cultures, culture, benefits, behavior, attract, adulterous, significant