Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2010 Jul;99(1):120-32. doi: 10.1037/a0018188.
Two studies (Ns = 80 and 108) tested hypotheses derived from Kirkpatrick and Ellis's (2001) extension and application of sociometer theory to mating aspirations. Experiences of social rejection-acceptance by attractive opposite-sex confederates were experimentally manipulated, and the impact of these manipulations on self-esteem, mating aspirations, and friendship aspirations was assessed. Results indicated that social rejection-acceptance by members of the opposite sex altered mating aspirations; that the causal link between social rejection-acceptance and mating aspirations was mediated by changes in state self-esteem; and that the impact of social rejection-acceptance by members of opposite sex was specific to mating aspirations and did not generalize to levels of aspiration in approaching potential same-sex friendships. This research supports a conceptualization of a domain-specific mating sociometer, which functions to calibrate mating aspirations in response to experiences of romantic rejection and acceptance.
两项研究（N=80 和 108）检验了基于 Kirkpatrick 和 Ellis（2001）对社会计量理论的扩展和应用的交配期望假设。通过有吸引力的异性同伴的实验性操纵，经历了社会拒绝-接受，并评估了这些操纵对自尊、交配期望和友谊期望的影响。结果表明，异性成员的社会接受-拒绝改变了交配期望；社会接受-拒绝与交配期望之间的因果关系是通过状态自尊的变化来调节的；异性成员的社会接受-拒绝的影响仅限于交配期望，而不会推广到接近潜在同性友谊的期望水平。这项研究支持了一种特定于领域的交配社会计量器的概念化，它的作用是根据浪漫拒绝和接受的经验来调整交配期望。
