naa a22 4500 510773990 CHVBK 20180411083224.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12110-013-9179-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12110-013-9179-7 Courtship Feeding in Humans? [Elektronische Daten] The Effects of Feeding versus Providing Food on Perceived Attraction and Intimacy [Thomas Alley, Lauren Brubaker, Olivia Fox] Food sharing may be used for mate attraction, sexual access, or mate retention in humans, as in many other species. Adult humans tend to perceive more intimacy in a couple if feeding is observed, but the increased perceived intimacy may be due to resource provisioning rather than feeding per se. To address this issue, 210 university students (66 male) watched five short videos, each showing a different mixed-sex pair of adults dining together and including feeding or simple provisioning or no food sharing. A survey concerning attraction and intimacy in the dyad was completed after each video. Both provisioning and feeding produced higher ratings of "Involvement,” with feeding producing the highest ratings. Similarly, the perceived attraction of each actor to the other was lowest when no food sharing was shown and highest when feeding was displayed. These findings are consistent with a view of feeding as a courtship display in humans. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Food sharing nationallicence Perceived involvement nationallicence Courtship feeding nationallicence Intimacy nationallicence Attraction nationallicence Provisioning nationallicence Alley Thomas Department of Psychology, Clemson University, 418 Brackett Hall, 29634-1355, Clemson, SC, USA aut Brubaker Lauren Department of Psychology, Clemson University, 418 Brackett Hall, 29634-1355, Clemson, SC, USA aut Fox Olivia Department of Psychology, Clemson University, 418 Brackett Hall, 29634-1355, Clemson, SC, USA aut Human Nature Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 24/4(2013-12-01), 430-443 1045-6767 24:4<430 2013 24 12110 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9179-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-013-9179-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Alley Thomas Department of Psychology, Clemson University, 418 Brackett Hall, 29634-1355, Clemson, SC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brubaker Lauren Department of Psychology, Clemson University, 418 Brackett Hall, 29634-1355, Clemson, SC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fox Olivia Department of Psychology, Clemson University, 418 Brackett Hall, 29634-1355, Clemson, SC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Nature Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 24/4(2013-12-01), 430-443 1045-6767 24:4<430 2013 24 12110 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer