Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 32 / Issue 01 / February 2009, pp 44-45
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09000260 (About DOI), Published online: 12 February 2009
Open Peer Commentary
What love has to do with it: An attachment perspective on pair bonding and sexual behavior
Vivian Zayasa1 and Daphna Rama2
a1 Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-7601 vz29@cornell.edu http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~pac_lab/
a2 Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-7601. dr239@cornell.edu http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~pac_lab/
Abstract
Del Giudice proposes that short-term mating strategies are adaptive for attachment-avoidant men. We argue that this model (1) does not apply to the majority of avoidant men (fearful-avoidants); (2) is based on limited evidence that the remaining subset of avoidant men (dismissing-avoidants) engage in short-term mating strategies; and (3) disregards the importance of pair bonding even for dismissing-avoidants.
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