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Why is creativity attractive in a potential mate?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (3):275-276 (2008)
Abstract
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 themOther Versions
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