Sexual Selection and Human Reproductive Behaviour - Evaluation of Theory
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- Sexual Selection and Human Reproductive Behaviour
- Research Support: Preferences Related to Anisogamy
- David Buss - 1989
- Survey of 10,000 adults in 33 countries.
- Questions related to: age and attributes - which should be important in partner preferences.
- FINDINGS
- Research Support: Inter-Sexual Selection
- Russell Clark and Elaine Hatfield (1989)
- Female choosiness is a reality of heterosexual relationships.
- Psychology students approached other students and asked: "I have been noticing you around campus. I find you to be very attractive. Would you go to bed with me tonight?"
- Not a single female student agreed to the request.
- 75% of male students agreed to the request immediately.
- FINDINGS
- SUPPORTS evolutionary theory, suggests females are choosier when it comes to sexual partners.
- As well as males having evolved different strategies to ensure reproductive success.
- SUPPORTS evolutionary theory, suggests females are choosier when it comes to sexual partners.
- Russell Clark and Elaine Hatfield (1989)
- Ignores Social and Cultural Influences
- Over the last century, partner preferences have been influenced by changing social norms
- Women's role in the work place = no longer dependent on men to provide
- Bereczkei (1997)
- Argued: social change = consequences for women's mate preferences - no longer be resource-oriented.
- Chang (2011)
- Compared preferences in China over 25 years. Found some had changed, but others remained the same - corresponding with the huge social changes in that time.
- FINDINGS
- LIMITATION TO THEORY: mate preferences are outcome of a combination of evolutionary and cultural influences.
- Theories which fail to account for both are limited in explanation.
- LIMITATION TO THEORY: mate preferences are outcome of a combination of evolutionary and cultural influences.
- Research Support: Preferences Related to Anisogamy
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