Men take risks to impress potentially available opposite-sex partners.

Evidence

The results indicated that men, but not women, exhibited riskier behavior when they believed that a single opposite-sex partner would view their performance. These results suggest men’s risky and competitive behavior is at least partly driven by the desire to impress the opposite sex when a mating opportunity is potentially available. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1209

Categorization

• QUESTION: The single/engaged manipulation shows audience matters, but whether the effect is really mating-relevant rather than general status-display remains ambiguous.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1209