relatii interpersonalte atractia

Question 1

What are some gender differences in mate selection for women?

Answer 1

Higher biological investment in offspring bc limited capacity to produce.
Certainty about biological relationship to offspring.

Question 2

What are some gender differences in mate selection for men?

Answer 2

Unlimited capacity to reproduce
Uncertainty over paternity

Question 3

Why are there these differences?

Answer 3

Biological differences in reproductive contingencies lead to differences in sexual behaviour and mate selection.

Men and women differ how they go about choosing partners bc they have different functions in reproduction.

Men want to spread their genes.

Question 4

What do men look for when wanting to reproduce?

Answer 4

• Men are looking for particular cues for attractiveness that is related to fertility.
• Across cultures men prefer waist-to-hip ratio.
• This is likely to indicate fertility.
• They prefer this because they want to inseminate to produce many offsprings so they want a fertile woman

Question 5

What do women look for when wanting to reproduce?

Answer 5

They prefer a masculine waist top hip ratio (similar waist and hip size)
This is because they want to make sure that the offspring is healthy and survives.

Question 6

What study was conducted to show gender differences in mate preferences (Buss, 1989)

Answer 6

Buss tested sex differences in 9000 people in 37 cultures.

Men: Desire physical attractiveness and younger partners
youth + beauty = reproductive fitness

Women: Desire resources and prefer older partners
power = ability to raise and protect offspring

Question 7

How has a real life instance shown gender differences in mate preference?

Answer 7

Ppl made ads that they were looking for a partner.
1. Advertising themselves:
Men focused on the preferred physical appearance.
Women usually looked for someone who status and material resources.

2. Responding to ads
   Men respond to attractive and young women
   Women respond to those who state their status and income

Question 8

What are some common characteristics that both men and women prefer around the world?

Answer 8

• warmth and loyalty
• attractiveness
• status and resources
• humour, intelligence

Question 9

Because of the differences in our reproductive role, what are the different ways men and women end up carrying their relationships?

Answer 9

Men are more promiscuous, and have higher sexual desire
Women are more cautious and selective

Men are more jealous of sexual infidelity (threat to paternity)
Women are more jealous of emotional infidelity (fear of loss of support for offspring)

Question 10

What is evidence that men are more promiscuous and have a higher sexual drive?

Answer 10

Men are much more willing to have casual sex than women, and their standards for sex partners is lower.

3 questions study:
Go out: men (50%), women (50%)
Go to apartment: men (69%), women (6%)
Have sex: men (75%), women (0%)

Question 11

How else do we know men are more promiscuous?

Answer 11

Desire sexual variety
Commit more infidelity
More sexual over-perception bias

Question 12

How many sexual partners would men and women like to have?

Answer 12

Women - 4-5 in life
Men - 18 in life

Question 13

What percentage of men and women commit infidelity?

Answer 13

Men: 40-50% because they are opportunistic and want sexual variety
Women: 20-30% because they are unhappy in the relationship

Question 14

What is sexual over-perception bias?

Answer 14

Inferring sexual interest when it is not there - happens to men more, especially among narcissistic men

Question 15

How many sexual partners do men and women want in life?

Answer 15

Women: 4-5
Men: 18

Question 16

What is the relationship between inequality gap and gender differences in mate preference?

Answer 16

Gender inequality may produce differences between men and women in what they find attractive.
The more you have economic equality between men and women, the more women say they like attractive guys, rather than guys with resources. This is because they are able to provide for themselves now.

Question 17

What is sexual economics theory?

Answer 17

Treats heterosexual sex relations as a marketplace of exchange of goods between equal partners.
Women are sellers, men are buyers.

Question 18

Why are women sellers and men are buyers?

Answer 18

Men want sex more often - so women have something of value that men want

Women want sex because of emotions and commitment.
Men want sex for pleasure.

Women trade sex for emotional, material and social resources.

Question 19

What is SET rooted in?

Answer 19

Rooted in patriarchy.
A social hierarchy in which men dominate, control and have power over women

Question 20

What have been the negatives of contraception?

Answer 20

Market value of sex has declined
Women can have sex without getting pregnant. So they dominate the marketplace and choose among many interested men.

Sex and marriage have become different things

Women look to marry (men dominate marriage market)

Men look for sex (women dominate sex market)

Question 21

How do women create conflict between each other? (according to SET)

Answer 21

Women compete for men on the marriage market since there is a shortage of men who want to commit.
Women repress each other sexuality.
They spread ideas of chastity for women and sexual double standards (stigmatising sexual behaviours of women but not men).

Question 22

What is the feminist response as to why there are gender differences in interest of sex?

Answer 22

Differences in sexual enthusiasm is affected by the double-standards in judging men and women’s sexual behaviours.

Men get more praise from having multiple sexual partners so they report having more partners and interest in sex.

Question 23

In terms of feminist perspective, who represses female sexuality?

Answer 23

Men, because sex is a tool of dominance.
Societies deny women equal rights, therefore forcing women into sexual exchange for financial provision.

Question 24

What is a counterevidence for that?

Answer 24

Men are too eager for sex to discourage women sexually.
There is no evidence men encourage women to have causal sex, but there is evidence that women discourage men and women.

There is evidence that men use sex as a tool of dominance.

Question 25

How often do men vs women get raped?

Answer 25

1 in 5 women
1 in 71 men

Question 26

How much more likely are disabled women to experience sexual assault?

Answer 26

Disabled women were almost twice as likely to have experienced any sexual assault than non-disabled women.