TY - JOUR
T1 - Chat-up lines as male displays
T2 - Effects of content, sex, and personality
AU - Cooper, Matthew
AU - O'Donnell, David
AU - Caryl, Peter G.
AU - Morrison, Rory
AU - Bale, Christopher
PY - 2007/10
Y1 - 2007/10
N2 - Male chat-up lines and other opening gambits can be viewed, from an evolutionary perspective, as sexual displays. We extended an analysis of vignettes by Bale et al. (2006), using a larger sample to examine the inter-item relationships, and the effects of personality (EPQ-r and the Dating Partner Preference test) and sex of the judge on ratings for different groups of items. Principal components analysis identified four groups of items - good mate, compliment, sex (preferred by males), and humour (preferred by females). For female judges, extraversion and psychoticism influenced the ratings for the humour and good mate factors, respectively, while the ratings for the compliment and sex factors were influenced by one 'Dating Partner Preference' factor. We discuss the idea that chat-up lines may function both to attract females and to select the types of female who respond.
AB - Male chat-up lines and other opening gambits can be viewed, from an evolutionary perspective, as sexual displays. We extended an analysis of vignettes by Bale et al. (2006), using a larger sample to examine the inter-item relationships, and the effects of personality (EPQ-r and the Dating Partner Preference test) and sex of the judge on ratings for different groups of items. Principal components analysis identified four groups of items - good mate, compliment, sex (preferred by males), and humour (preferred by females). For female judges, extraversion and psychoticism influenced the ratings for the humour and good mate factors, respectively, while the ratings for the compliment and sex factors were influenced by one 'Dating Partner Preference' factor. We discuss the idea that chat-up lines may function both to attract females and to select the types of female who respond.
KW - Chat-up lines
KW - Mate choice
KW - Personality
KW - Sex differences
KW - Sexual display
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34447280867&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.journals.elsevier.com/personality-and-individual-differences
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2007.03.001
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2007.03.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34447280867
VL - 43
SP - 1075
EP - 1085
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
SN - 0191-8869
IS - 5
ER -