Evolutionary Cyberpsychology: Domains and Hypotheses

Question 1

What are the four domains of internet behavior?

Answer 1

1. Mating and sexual competition
2. Parenting and kinship
3. Trust and social exchange
4. Personal information management

Question 2

What do the different domains represent?

Answer 2

different categories of recurrent adaptive problems that humans have had to solve over time

Question 3

Mating and sexual competetion hypothesis

Answer 3

Men more than women will enter chat rooms in pursuit of one-time sexual encounters, with the ultimate goal of sexual gratification

Question 4

Intrasexual competition hypothesis

Answer 4

Young men more than young women will stress their skills and resources in their PHPs and blogs, while women more than men will stress their physical appearance and reputation

Question 5

Sex differences in jealousy hypothesis

Answer 5

Men more than women will experience jealousy over a partner conducting sexual acts with an online partner, while women more than men will experience jealousy over a partner exchanging emotional secrets with an online partner

Question 6

Parenting hypothesis

Answer 6

Women will take a more active role than men, on average, in monitoring their children’s online behavior

Question 7

Kinship hypothesis

Answer 7

Adults will utilize high-cost, high-bandwidth communication channels (e.g., telephone, video communication) more often to communicate with distant kin (e.g., siblings, parents, offspring) than with friends and acquaintances

Question 8

Trust and social exchange hypothesis

Answer 8

Negative feedback will be distrusted more by eBay users when it is submitted by a single buyer, the same buyer, or affiliated buyers

Question 9

Personal information management hypothesis

Answer 9

Most people will not disclose personal secrets over the Internet even when guaranteed anonymity in a CMC session