Love and Sex

Question 1

Psychological Mechanisms of Sexuality

Answer 1

1. Sexual desire (lust)
2. Romantic Love (infatuation)
3. Companionate love (long-term commitment)

Question 2

Darwin’s phenomena of sexual selection

Answer 2

male-male competition

female choice

Question 3

Strategic Female Adulterousness

Answer 3

NOT a prediction from sexual selection theory
Best of both worlds:
genes from fittest male
investment from most willing male

Question 4

cuckoldry

Answer 4

male mistakenly invests in other males genes due to paternity uncertainty (sexual jealousy as an adaptation)

Question 5

Predictions of sex-differences in sexual emotions

Answer 5

men should be more interested in numerous, impersonal sex than women
NOT THE SAME AS men are more interested in sex

Question 6

short term mating criteria

Answer 6

male seeking female: fertility, willingness to have sex

female seeking male: fertility \, good genes

Question 7

long term mating criteria

Answer 7

male seeking female: youth faithfulness, fertility

female seeking male: ability and willingness to invest, stability, fertility