id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_476zjpxdsfcehncxptunr4632a Daniel J. Kruger Variation in women's mating strategies depicted in the works and words of Jane Austen 2013 14 .pdf application/pdf 6694 505 60 can accurately identify the mating strategies of characters and express relationship Keywords: Literary Darwinism, Jane Austen, mating strategy, sexual selection women preferred proper heroes for long-term relationships but increasingly favored the that men will prefer characters for long-term, committed relationships who successfully established long-term relationships in the novels, (i.e., Jane Bennett and Fanny Price, Men preferred the long-term strategist (Jane Bennett) to the flirty Lydia the sensitivity of study participants in comprehending the characters' mating strategies which character within a pair they thought would be preferred by men for: a sexual affair, Participants rated characters with a long-term mating strategy more Characters with longterm mating strategies were preferred for long-term committed relationships, t(110) = Characters with short-term mating strategies were preferred for sexual affairs, t(110) = example, men's preferences increased for the characters representing a long-term strategy men would prefer Jane and Fanny for long-term committed relationships, including ./cache/work_476zjpxdsfcehncxptunr4632a.pdf ./txt/work_476zjpxdsfcehncxptunr4632a.txt