TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Drinking high amounts of alcohol as a short-term mating strategy: the impact of short-term mating motivations on young adults' drinking behavior
JO  - Evolutionary psychology
A1  - Vincke, Eveline
SP  - 1474704917707073
EP  - 1474704917707073
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
N2  - Previous research indicates that drinking large quantities of alcohol could function as a short-term mating strategy for young adults in mating situations. However, no study investigated whether this is actually the case. Therefore, in this article, the link between short-term mating motivations and drinking high amounts of alcohol is tested. First, a survey study ( N = 345) confirmed that young adults who engage in binge drinking are more short-term oriented in their mating strategy than young adults who never engage in binge drinking. Also, the more short-term-oriented young adults were in their mating strategy, the more often binge drinking behavior was conducted. In addition, an experimental study ( N = 229) empirically verified that short-term mating motivations increase young adults' drinking behavior, more so than long-term mating motivations. <br><br>RESULTS of the experiment clearly showed that young men and young women are triggered to drink more alcoholic beverages in a short-term mating situation compared to a long-term mating situation. Furthermore, the mating situation also affected young adults' perception of drinking behavior. Young adults in a short-term mating context perceived a higher amount of alcoholic beverages as heavy drinking compared to peers in a long-term mating context. These findings confirm that a high alcohol consumption functions as a short-term mating strategy for both young men and young women. Insights gained from this article might be of interest to institutions aimed at targeting youth alcohol (ab)use.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1474-7049
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474704917707073
ID  - ref1
ER  -