How 'coalitional mate retention' tactics prevent your partner cheating. 7 April 2015
Summary: <p>With a little help from my friends: How we use 'coalitional mate retention' tactics to prevent our partner cheating. We take a look at two new experiments that uncover how our friends work to keep our partners faithful.</p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p><a href="http://archive.org/download/pap-2015-04-07/pap-2015-04-07.mp3">Download the MP3</a></p><p><b>Rate me!</b><br> Rate, review, or listen <a href="http://www.robertburriss.com/itunes">in iTunes</a> or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=63199&refid=stpr">in Stitcher.</a><br> </p><p><b>Read the transcript!</b><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@RobertBurriss/friends-help-friends-keep-partners-faithful-f1e830d8481c">Friends Help Friends Keep Partners Faithful</a><br> </p><p><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8BJnwj2ayzA/VPgzcv539FI/AAAAAAAABew/UWkj8Jdp8jY/s2048-Ic42/whisper.jpg"><br> </p><p><i>New research shows how friends work to keep our partners faithful, and reveals how they decide to expose any infidelities they detect.</i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b></p><p>Barbaro, N., Pham, M. N., & Shackelford, T. K. (in press). Solving the problem of partner infidelity: Individual mate retention, coalitional mate retention, and in-pair copulation frequency. <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Individual Differences</span>. <a href="http://www.toddkshackelford.com/downloads/Barbaro-Pham-Shackelford-PAID.pdf">Read summary</a></p><p>Pham, M. N., Barbaro, N., Mogilski, J. K., & Shackelford, T. K. (2015). Coalitional mate retention is correlated positively with friendship quality involving women, but negatively with male-male friendship quality. <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Individual Differences, 79</span>, 87-90. <a href="http://toddkshackelford.com/downloads/Pham-et-al-CMR-Friendship-PAID.pdf">Read summary</a></p>
