Research Instruments

Conflict Between the Sexes Instrument
Relevant articles:
Buss, D. M. (1989). Conflict between the sexes: Strategic interference and the evocation of anger and upset. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 56, 735-747.
Buss, D. M. (1991). Conflict in married couples: Personality predictors of anger and upset. Journal of Personality, 59, 663-703.
Buss, D.M., & Malamuth, N. (1996). Sex, Power, Conflict. New York: Oxford University Press.

Jealousy Instrument
Relevant article:
Buss, D.M., Shackelford, T.K., Kirkpatrick, L.A., Chloe, J., Hasegawa, M., Hasegawa, T., & Bennett, K. (1999). Jealousy and beliefs about infidelity: Tests of competing hypotheses in the United States, Korea, and Japan. Personal Relationships, 6, 125-150.

Mate Preferences Questionnaires
Relevant article:
Buss, D. M. (1989). Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 12, 1-49.

Mate Poaching Inventory
Relevant article:
Schmitt, D.P., & Buss, D.M. (2001). Human mate poaching: Tactics and temptations for infiltrating existing relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 894-917.

Mate Retention Inventory
Relevant articles:
Buss, D. M. (1988). From Vigilance to Violence: Tactics of Mate Retention in American Undergraduates. Ethology & Sociobiology, 9, 291-317.
Buss, D.M., & Shackelford, T.K. (1997). From vigilance to violence: Mate retention tactics in married couples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 346-361.
Buss, D.M. (2002). Human Mate Guarding. Neurendocrinology Letter Special Issue, 23, 23-29.
Shackelford, T.K., Goetz, A.T. & Buss, D.M. (2005). Mate retention in marriage: Further evidence of the reliability of the Mate Retention Inventory. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 415-425.

Mate Retention Inventory: Short Form
MRI-SF: men's self-report
MRI-SF: men's partner-report
MRI-SF: women's self-report
MRI-SF: women's partner-report
Relevant articles:
Buss, D. M. (1988). From Vigilance to Violence: Tactics of Mate Retention in American Undergraduates. Ethology & Sociobiology, 9, 291-317.
Buss, D.M., Shackelford, T.K., & McKibbin, W. F. (2008). The Mate Retention Inventory-Short Form (MRI-SF). Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 322-334.

Reasons for Having Sex Questionnaire
Relevant article:
Meston, C., & Buss, D.M. (2007). Why humans have sex. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 36, 477-507.

The Sexy Seven:  An Adjective Measure of Sexual Strategies
Relevant article:
Schmitt, D.P., & Buss, D.M. (2000).  Sexual dimensions of person description:  Beyond or subsumed by the Big Five?  Journal of Research in Personality, 34, 141-177.

Susceptibility to Infidelity Instrument
Relevant article:
Buss, D.M., & Shackelford, T.K (1997). Susceptibility to Infidelity in the First Year of Marriage. Journal of Research in Personality, 31, 193-221. 

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