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Status and Mating Success Amongst Visual Artists

Geoffrey Miller has hypothesized that producing artwork functions as a mating display. Here we investigate the relationship between mating success and artistic success in a sample of 236 visual artists. Initially, we derived a measure of artistic success that covered a broad range of artistic behavi...

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Autores principales: Clegg, Helen, Nettle, Daniel, Miell, Dorothy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22059085
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00310
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description Geoffrey Miller has hypothesized that producing artwork functions as a mating display. Here we investigate the relationship between mating success and artistic success in a sample of 236 visual artists. Initially, we derived a measure of artistic success that covered a broad range of artistic behaviors and beliefs. As predicted by Miller’s evolutionary theory, more successful male artists had more sexual partners than less successful artists but this did not hold for female artists. Also, male artists with greater artistic success had a mating strategy based on longer term relationships. Overall the results provide partial support for the sexual selection hypothesis for the function of visual art.
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spelling pubmed-32045762011-11-04 Status and Mating Success Amongst Visual Artists Clegg, Helen Nettle, Daniel Miell, Dorothy Front Psychol Psychology Geoffrey Miller has hypothesized that producing artwork functions as a mating display. Here we investigate the relationship between mating success and artistic success in a sample of 236 visual artists. Initially, we derived a measure of artistic success that covered a broad range of artistic behaviors and beliefs. As predicted by Miller’s evolutionary theory, more successful male artists had more sexual partners than less successful artists but this did not hold for female artists. Also, male artists with greater artistic success had a mating strategy based on longer term relationships. Overall the results provide partial support for the sexual selection hypothesis for the function of visual art. Frontiers Research Foundation 2011-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3204576/ /pubmed/22059085 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00310 Text en Copyright © 2011 Clegg, Nettle and Miell. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article subject to a non-exclusive license between the authors and Frontiers Media SA, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and other Frontiers conditions are complied with.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204576/
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