Attraction and Formation of Relationships

Looking at Socio-biological (evolutionary) theory and the Matching Hypothesis.

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  • Created by: Sav Canak
  • Created on: 26-04-10 14:05

1. Fellner and Marshall (1981) looked at peoples willingness to donate a kidney. They found...

  • 12% were willing for siblings
  • 86% of people were willing to for their children
  • 2% were willing for friends
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2. Buss (1989) carried out a survey across 37 cultures in 33 countries. They found that men valued phyical attraction and women valued occupational status.

  • True
  • False

3. The Socio-biological theory suffers from...?

  • Biological Determinism
  • Ecological validity
  • There were no flaws

4. The theory states that...?

  • Want most attractive person but tend to form relations with similar attributes
  • We want the most attractive person and won't settle for anyone else

5. Another flaw...?

  • The theory is too scientific
  • Doesn't take media/ environmental influences
  • Again, there are no flaws for this theory
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Harley

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For #1 I would say evolutionists would state that we look for sign of reproductive activity as opposed to sign of youth.

stephanie mercer

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didn't walster carry out the computer dance!!! looking at physical attractiveness!!!!!!!

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