American psychologist known for researching human sex differences in mate selection and for co-developing sexual strategies theory, considered one of the founders of evolutionary psychology. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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His cross-cultural mate-preference research is a landmark body of work in evolutionary psychology.
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David Michael Buss (born April 14, 1953) is an American evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, researching human sex differences in mate selection.
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researching human sex differences in mate selection. He is considered one of the founders of evolutionary psychology.
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Buss is the author of more than 200 scientific articles and has won many awards, including an APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in 1988 and an APA G. Stanley Hall Lectureship in 1990.
Studies Conducted: Buss's Thirty-Seven Cultures Mate Preference Study, Article text
In a large cross-cultural study that included 10,047 individuals across 37 cultures, Buss sought first to determine the different characteristics each sex looks for in a mate.
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Sexual strategies theory (SST) is an evolutionary theory of human mating created by David Buss and David Schmitt in 1993. It defines the set of mating strategies that humans pursue, the adaptive problems that men and women face when pursuing these strategies, and the evolved solutions to these mating problems.
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