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| Title |
Status and Mating Success Amongst Visual Artists
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00310 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Helen Clegg, Daniel Nettle, Dorothy Miell |
| Abstract |
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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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 46% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 6 | 46% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 85% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 8% |
| Scientists | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 58 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Croatia | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 54 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Professor | 13 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 9% |
| Researcher | 5 | 9% |
| Other | 12 | 21% |
| Unknown | 3 | 5% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 31 | 53% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 10% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 5% |
| Philosophy | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 8 | 14% |
| Unknown | 5 | 9% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 56. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 April 2023.
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#1,357
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#2,972
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#17
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