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Thus, it is possible that if executive functions are linked to a fast life strategy, this may be maladaptive in many instances in modern societies with greater access to fertility-suppressing reproductive technologies, as much fertility is taking place in the context of long-term, monogamous relationships. As a result, men with extremely low executive functions may generally have issues maintaining long-term romantic relationships, and a lower inclination towards them, thereby suppressing their fertility. | Thus, it is possible that if executive functions are linked to a fast life strategy, this may be maladaptive in many instances in modern societies with greater access to fertility-suppressing reproductive technologies, as much fertility is taking place in the context of long-term, monogamous relationships. As a result, men with extremely low executive functions may generally have issues maintaining long-term romantic relationships, and a lower inclination towards them, thereby suppressing their fertility. | ||
This explanation is not mutually exclusive with an alternate explanation that poorly educated and low-status men are generally less desirable to women and less likely to be mated, mirroring greater female preferences for status in long-term versus short-term relationships,<ref>https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/723/</ref> and also supported by evidence that suggests lower long-term relationship stability when women are 'dating down' in status.<ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/status-leakage-women-men-housework-st-john-s-1.4646453</ref> | This explanation is not mutually exclusive with an alternate explanation that poorly educated and low-status men, which men with executive functioning deficits would be more likely to be, are generally less desirable to women and less likely to be mated, mirroring greater female preferences for status in long-term versus short-term relationships,<ref>https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/723/</ref> and also supported by evidence that suggests lower long-term relationship stability when women are 'dating down' in status.<ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/status-leakage-women-men-housework-st-john-s-1.4646453</ref> | ||
===Hypotheses=== | ===Hypotheses=== | ||