Limitations
sexual behavior
The main limitation of the current work is that it was conducted on a convenience
sample from a secular country which is high in sexual liberalism and has high
gender egality. It is entirely possible that SDS are reduced in such countries
and would reveal themselves more in countries which are more conservative and
religious. Thus, a key future direction would be to replicate these findings in
other countries to test for cross-cultural consistency, though often such
research demonstrates that mating psychology is remarkably canalized (Despite sample characteristics, the random assignment procedure into short-term
or long-term MCs and question-order manipulation ensures comparability of these
factors. Another possible limitation is the comparison for testing hypocrisy;
self-suitor versus same-sex friend appraisals that are not directly comparable
regarding content. In the self-suitor appraisal, we asked the respondent to
consider to what extent the target's sexual behavior reduced or increased the
likelihood of pursuing ONS/relationship, while in the same-sex friend appraisal
we asked the respondent to report the degree that their friend
