Sexual selection
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 08-02-15 15:10
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- Sexual selection
- Buss 1989
- 10,000 people in 37 different cultures
- females are looking for
- ambition
- seek resources
- high IQ
- skills in parenting
- good financial prospects
- provide for them
- Dependable
- supportive of mate
- ambition
- what males are looking for
- younger
- females are most fertile aged 21
- physical appearance
- ensure genes pass on
- high IQ
- skills in parenting
- kind
- interested in a long term relationship
- younger
- difficult to apply to everyday life
- low population validity
- matter of preference
- empowerment of females
- younger females are easier to control
- why Greek females were married of at 12
- Cunningham
- men were most attracted to females with youthful features
- large eyes, small noses and chins
- symbolical of fertility
- men were most attracted to females with youthful features
- Waynforth
- females were attracted to masculine features
- square jaw line
- rigid eyebrows, small eyes and a symmetrical face
- Bruce and young found that these characteristics will ensure reproductive success
- specific to the American culture
- females were attracted to masculine features
- Bailey and Zucker
- looked at the preferences of both straight and gay men
- both were looking for physical attractiveness and financial status was not important
- Kendrick also looked at the correlations of their preferences
- teenage males were looking for someone who was slightly older (even five years)
- as they got older they preferred someone who was older
- teenage males were looking for someone who was slightly older (even five years)
- looked at the preferences of both straight and gay men
- short term dating
- Clark and Hatfield
- attractive university students approached other students on campus
- when asked for casual sex 0% of the females said yes and 75% of the males agreed
- psychological mechanism to ensure short term dating to maximise reproductive success
- The importance of fertility
- Miller et al
- looked at the correlation between the tips of lap dancers and their menstrual cycle
- Miller et al
- gender bias to believe that only males benefit from short term dating
- Greiling and buss
- way to leave a long term mate for a better one
- producing more genetically diverse children
- Greiling and buss
- Buss 1989
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