Psychology: Sexual attraction and incest

Question 1

Do we have a tendency to be attracted to people similar to us?

Answer 1

In fact, the idea that we are more attracted to similar others is incredibly robust. One review of 313 studies with over 35,000 participants found that similarity was a strong predictor of attraction in the early stages of a relationship – finding no evidence that opposites attract.

Question 2

Are we more attracted to people similar to us?

Answer 2

When subjects were asked to rate the portrayed people for attractiveness, they usually picked the people who were an amalgamation of a stranger and themselves. As it turns out, then, we are much more likely to fall for someone who looks like us or our opposite-sex parent.

Question 3

Why are people attracted to people who are similar to them?

Answer 3

Certainty of being liked: We assume that someone who has a lot in common with us is more likely to like us. And in turn, we are more likely to like people if we think they like us. Fun and enjoyable interactions: It’s just more fun to hang out with someone when you have a lot in common.D

Question 4

What is a mere exposure effect?

Answer 4

The mere exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things or people that are more familiar to them than others. Repeated exposure increases familiarity. This effect is therefore also known as the familiarity effect.

Question 5

What is an example of mere exposure effect?

Answer 5

The Mere Exposure Effect is simply a psychological phenomenon whereby people feel a preference for people or things simply because they are familiar. For example, babies smile at the people who smile at them more.

Question 6

What is proximity effect?

Answer 6

Proximity Effect is related to the time that people spend together. A lot of research found out that there is a positive correlation between the amount of time spent together and the attraction between people. For example, students who sit next to each other are more likely to become friends in a class.

Question 7

Is opposites attract true?

Answer 7

The idea that “opposites attract” in relationships is a myth. In reality, people tend to be attracted to those who are similar to themselves, as dozens of studies have shown. This could be because personality contrasts tend to stand out and become bigger over time.

Question 8

Does opposite really attract?

Answer 8

You can have opposite interests so long as you create a strong mutual bond. A recent study published in the journal Developmental Psychology looked at data from 1,965 couples to find patterns related to long-term relationship success, and the findings support that opposites do attract, to an extent.

Question 9

What is a reciprocity of liking?

Answer 9

Reciprocal liking, also known as reciprocity of attraction, is the act of a person feeling an attraction to someone only upon learning or becoming aware of that person’s attraction to themselves. Reciprocal liking has a significant impact on human attraction and the formation of relationships.

Question 10

What is the incest taboo?

Answer 10

The incest taboo is a term used by anthropologists to refer to a class of prohibitions, both formal and informal, stated and unstated, against incest, the practice of sexual relations between certain or close relatives, in human societies. There are various theories that seek to explain how and why an incest taboo originates. Some advocates maintain that some sort of incest taboo is universal, while others dispute its universality. Research on the incest taboo necessarily involves research into what different societies consider “incest” which, according to anthropology, varies strikingly from one society to another. The term may encompass, but is not identical to, the legal regulation of marriage by states.

Question 11

What is genetic sexual attraction.

Answer 11

Genetic sexual attraction is described as a phenomenon of intense attraction between biological family members that can occur after close relatives are reunited after a long period of separation. Generally (in adoption situations) this affects family separated from birth or very early in the life of the adopted child.

Question 12

Was inbreeding common in ancient Egypt?

Answer 12

The ancient Egyptian royal families were almost expected to marry within the family, as inbreeding was present in virtually every dynasty. Pharaohs were not only wed to their brothers and sisters, but there were also “double-niece” marriages, where a man married a girl whose parents were his own brother and sister.

Question 13

Why is incest bad?

Answer 13

You may wonder, “Why is incest a crime?” The main reasoning behind laws that make it a crime is that it causes harm to family relationships and that it can result in genetic defects in children.

Question 14

Is the Westermarck effect real?

Answer 14

In order to avoid inbreeding, humans and other animals develop a strong sexual aversion to individuals with whom they have lived closely in infancy and early childhood (usually biological siblings), a phenomenon called the “Westermarck effect” or negative sexual imprinting.

Answer 15

Now, in theory, incest should be an appealing strategy from a gene’s eye perspective. This is due to the manner in which sexual reproduction works: by mating with a full sibling, your offspring would carry 75 percent of your genes in common by descent, rather than the 50 percent you’d expect if you mated with a stranger. If those hyper-related siblings in turn mated with one another, after a few generations you’d have people giving birth to infants that were essentially genetic clones.

Question 16

Red Queen hypothesis.

Answer 16

The Red Queen hypothesis is a hypothesis in evolutionary biology proposed in 1973, that species must constantly adapt, evolve, and proliferate in order to survive while pitted against ever-evolving opposing species.

Question 17

What is the Israeli Kibbutz?

Answer 17

One of these was the Israeli Kibbutz where children were predominately raised in similarly-aged, mixed-sex peer groups. Of the approximately 3000 children that were examined from these Kibbutz, there were only 14 cases of marriage between individuals from the same group, and almost all of them were between people introduced to the group after the age of 6

Question 18

Do some armerindian societies stroke babies penises non-sexually?

Answer 18

For example, in some Amerindian societies in the Arctic, and traditionally in Bali, mothers would routinely stroke the penises of their infant sons; such behavior was considered no more sexual than breast-feeding

Question 19

Why do trobriand prohibit incest only retaining to a matrilineal relation?

Answer 19

For example, Trobriand Islanders prohibit both sexual relations between a woman and her brother,[5] and between a woman and her father,[6] but they describe these prohibitions in very different ways: relations between a woman and her brother fall within the category of forbidden relations among members of the same clan; relations between a woman and her father do not.[7] This is because the Trobrianders are matrilineal; children belong to the clan of their mother and not of their father. Thus, sexual relations between a man and his mother’s sister (and mother’s sister’s daughter) are also considered incestuous, but relations between a man and his father’s sister are not.[8] Indeed, a man and his father’s sister will often have a flirtatious relationship, and, far from being taboo, Trobriand society encourages a man and his father’s sister, or the daughter of his father’s sister to have sexual relations or marry.[9]

Question 20

What is alliance theory?

Answer 20

Alliance theory is based on the incest taboo: according to it, only this universal prohibition of incest pushes human groups towards exogamy. Thus, inside a given society, certain categories of kin are forbidden to inter-marry.

Question 21

Are lower classes in stratified society more likely be endogamic?

Answer 21

Societies that are stratified, that is, divided into unequal classes, often prescribe different degrees of endogamy. Endogamy is the opposite of exogamy; it refers to the practice of marriage between members of the same social group. A classic example is India’s caste system, in which unequal castes are endogamous.[29] Inequality between ethnic groups and races also correlates with endogamy.[30] Class, caste, ethnic and racial endogamy typically coexists with family exogamy and prohibitions against incest.one family.[31] In Roman-governed Egypt this practice was also found among commoners