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Old March 23rd, 2009, 10:53 AM
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Cool Love & Madness: Geof Miller

I think I like the genomic imprint model better, but one of them may be understood as merely an expression of the other...

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From Glenn Geher, Geoffrey F. Miller, & Jeremy W. Murphy (2007) Introduction: The orgins and nature of mating intelligence. G. Geher & G. Miller (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Sex, relationships, and the mind's reproductive system, pp. 3-34.. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
"These mating-intelligence disorders include the following. Borderline personality disorder includes highly unstable evaluations of the commitment level and mate value of a potential mate, and of one's own mate value (Skodol, Gunderson, Pfohl, Widiger, Livesley, & Siever, 2002). Anorexia – severe, sometimes fatal under-eating – often includes misconceptions that the other sex is attracted to a much thinner body form than they actually prefer, and such misconceptions are often driven by media stereotypes and adolescent peer-group gossip (Groesz, Levine, & Murnen, 2002; Paxton, Schutz, Wertheim & Muir, 1999). Asperger's syndrome and autism are characterized by deficits in social understanding and communication abilities that result in pervasive, consistent problems in attracting, retaining, and understanding sexual partners (Ashton, 2002; Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Skinner, Martin & Cubley, 2001; Baron-Cohen, Richler, Bisarya, Gurunathan & Wheelwright, 2003). Narcissistic personality disorder – extreme arrogance, grandiosity, self-involvement, and showing off – can be construed as obsessive over-investing in conspicuous, public fitness-displays to attract multiple short-term mates (Buss & Shackelford, 1997; Gabriel, Critelli, & Ee, 1994; Robins & Beer, 2001). Antisocial personality disorder (psychopathy) – a pervasive pattern of callous, exploitative, impulsive, violent, and promiscuous behavior – can be construed as over-reliance on deceptive, coercive, and short-term mating tactics (see Dunsieth, Nelson, Bursman-Lovins, Holcomb, Bechman, Welge, Roby, Taylor, Soutullo & McElroy, 2004; Krueger, Hicks, Patrick, Carlson, Iacono & McGue, 2002). All of these personality disorders seriously reduce long-term mating success, relationship satisfaction, and marital stability (Grant, Hasin, Stinson, Dawson, Chou, Ruan & Pickering, 2004; Skodol, Gunderson, McGlashan, Dyck, Stout, Bender, Grilo, Shea, Zanatini, Morey, Sanislow & Oldham, 2002), so can be viewed partly as disorders of Mating Intelligence. However, antisocial personality disorder in males often increases short-term reproductive success (Moffitt, Caspi, Harrington & Milne, 2002) – insofar as this represents a successful 'alternative strategy' in male mating behavior, this emphasizes the point that Mating Intelligence can have a very dark side indeed."

Miller's papers: http://www.unm.edu/~psych/faculty/lg_gmiller.html
Http://www.unm.edu/~hebs/pubs_miller.html
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