Why is creativity attractive in a potential mate?
June 28th, 2008 | by admin |Why is creativity attractive in a potential mate?
A number of studies suggest that women find artistically creative men attractive, especially in the short-term mating context. Artistic creativity (but not mathematical or technical creativity) is linked to psychosis-proneness. I hypothesise that in preferring artistically creative men, women may be choosing paternal genotypes that make babies that are not excessively somatically demanding on them.
Nettle D.
Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE2 4HH, United Kingdom. Daniel.nettle@ncl.ac.uk www.danielnettle.info.