Source: http://www.synergy-pr.com/files/JESP72009%281%29.pdf

Science is just beginning to confirm what any successful, married man has been surprised to learn, many single women are all over them and give little to no fucks about their current commitments.

The assumption is that chosen men signal they have desirable qualities that non-chosen men do not have and as a result, women perceive them as more viable mates (higher value). Research on human preferences does show that women rate men as more desirable when they are surrounded by other women, compared to being alone or surrounded by other men (Hill & Buss, 2008).

Conversely, men rate women as less desirable when they are surrounded by other men, compared to being alone or surrounded by other women. Although this work did not examine mate poaching per se (i.e., the target was not described as being in a relationship with any of the surrounding individuals), it does suggest that women may be more likely to copy the mate preferences of their peers, a pattern that closely mirrors the animal research previously described.

The present study is the first to examine both men and women’s evaluations of single and attached targets, and it is also the first to do so with both single and attached participants. It was predicted that women would be more interested in an attached target com- pared to a single target but that men would not show this preference. However, this female preference for an attached target was only expected to occur for single women. If attached men signal desirable resources and a willingness to commit to family life as some have suggested (Dugatkin, 2000; Uller & Johansson, 2002), then this signal should be more appealing to single women who are lacking such resources. Women who are in a relationship themselves have already found a mate who is willing to commit and so it is unlikely that they will be enticed by such prospects.

And perh