Relationships -> Evolutionary Explanations Of Partner Preferences Flashcards
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Sexual Selection and Human Reproductive Behaviour
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- Male gametes
- Female gametes
- Anisogamy
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Intrasexual Selection
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- Anisogamy
- Males must compete with other males
- Mate guarding
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Intersexual selection
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- Anisogamy
- Women are selective when choosing a partner
- Able to protect them and provide for their children.
- Sexy Sons Hypothesis
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Strengths of Sexual Selection
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- Buss
- Females value resource-based characteristics
- Men value good looks and preferred younger partners.
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Weaknesses of Sexual Selection
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- Other types of relationships
- Cultural variations
- Deterministic
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Self-Disclosure
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- Central concept in social penetration theory
- Revealing of personal information about the self to another
- Self-disclosure increases attraction.
- Breadth and depth of self-disclosure will increase
- Self-disclosing too quickly can reduce attraction
- Reciprocal self-disclosure
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Strengths of Self-disclosure
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- Altman and Taylor
- First date
- Maladjusted and not very likeable
- Kito
- Different cultures
- Self-disclosure was high
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Weaknesses of Self-disclosure
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- Other factors
- Physical attraction, similarity of attitudes and complementarity of needs.
- Sprecher
- Received over given
- Against the idea of reciprocal self-disclosure
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Physical Attractiveness
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- Men in the short & long-term
- Women in the short-term
- Varies across culture and time
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Halo Effect
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- General impression of a person is incorrectly formed from one characteristic alone
- More sociable, optimistic, and trustworthy
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
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Strengths of the Halo Effect
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- Palmer and Peterson
- More politically knowledgeable than unattractive people
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Weaknesses of the Halo Effect
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- Towhey
- MACHO scale (measured sexist attitudes & behaviour)
- High on the MACHO scale were more influenced by physical attractiveness
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The Matching Hypothesis
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- Walster
- Matching physical attractiveness
- Balance between desire and a realistic awareness
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Strengths of The Matching Hypothesis
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- Real couples correlate for level of physical attractiveness
- The same correlation was not found for fictitious pairings
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Weaknesses of the The Matching Hypothesis
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- Attractive person with an unattractive person
- Rebalance of traits
- Complex matching
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Filter Theory
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Kerchoff and David proposed we use filtering to reduce the field of available partners down to a field of desirable partners. When we meet a potential partner we engage in;
- Social Demography
- Similarity in Attitudes
- Complementarity
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Strengths of Filter Theory
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- Taylor f
- 85% of Americans who got in 2008
- Supporting the social demography part of filter theory
- Hoyle
- Perceived attitude similarity can predict attraction more strongly than actual attitude similarity.
- Tidwell
- Perceived similarity predicted romantic liking more than actual similarity.
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Weaknesses of Filter Theory
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- Andersons longitudinal study
- Emotional convergence
- Online dating
- Reduction in social demographic variables
