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      Status and Mating Success Amongst Visual Artists

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          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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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Front Psychol
                Journal ID (publisher-id): Front. Psychology
                Title: Frontiers in Psychology
                Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
                ISSN (Electronic): 1664-1078
                Publication date (Electronic preprint): 26 July 2011
                Publication date (Electronic): 31 October 2011
                Publication date Collection: 2011
                Volume: 2
                Electronic Location Identifier: 310
                Affiliations
                [1] 1simpleDivision of Psychology, The University of Northampton Northampton, UK
                [2] 2simpleCentre for Behaviour and Evolution, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University Newcastle, UK
                [3] 3simpleCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK
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                Edited by: Simine Vazire, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

                Reviewed by: Geoffrey Miller, University of New Mexico, USA; Elisabeth Oberzaucher, University of Vienna, Austria

                *Correspondence: Helen Clegg, Division of Psychology, The University of Northampton, Park Campus, Boughton Green Road, Northampton NN2 7AL, UK. e-mail: helen.clegg@ 123456northampton.ac.uk

                This article was submitted to Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences, a specialty of Frontiers in Psychology.

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                DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00310
                PMC ID: 3204576
                PubMed ID: 22059085
                SO-VID: 31817307-a057-4420-9931-b0e8b91b6a9a
                Copyright © Copyright © 2011 Clegg, Nettle and Miell.
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                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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                Date received : 19 July 2011
                Date accepted : 14 October 2011
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 15, Pages: 4, Words: 3661
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                Subject: Psychology
                Subject: Original Research

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                Keywords: creativity,status,mating success,artist,evolutionary psychology
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                Keywords: creativity, status, mating success, artist, evolutionary psychology

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