Relationships and Eating Behaviour Content.
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Chanel Green.
Relationships and Eating Behaviour Revision:
Sexual Selection: Anisogamy = the difference between male and female sex cells. Males have more, and they require less time investment. Women have less and require 18 years of commitment and time. This leads to the different types of mating strategies:
Inter-sexual selection = preferred by the female. Quality over quantity. More particular about who they mate with. Fisher: '**** sons hypothesis' women mate with the men with the best qualities which are then passed down to her son.
Intra-sexual selection = preferred by the male. Quantity over quality. Men compete to mate with the most females. Often this leads to men acting aggressively to attract the attention of a female to prove their masculinity.
AO3: Buss: compared 10,000 adults from over 33 countries, found that men placed higher value on reproductive capacity, for example good looks. Whereas women placed higher value on resource-based characteristics.
Singh: what matters most for males is the waist-hip ratio: a sign of fertility.
Clarke and Hatfield: university study: 0% of females agreed to intimacy question compared 75% of males who did.
Chang et al: studied partner preferences in china over 25 years and found that they changed alongside the cultural changes of that time.
Self-disclosure: Revealing personal information about yourself. Romantic partners reveal more about their deepest thoughts and true self as their relationship develops. This strengthens their bond.
Social penetration theory: Altman and Taylor the gradual process of revealing your true self to your partner. A reciprocal exchange of info between two partners. As breadth and depth increase, so does their commitment.
Reis and Shaver: for breadth and depth to increase and a relationship to develop, self- disclosure must be reciprocal.
AO3: Sprecher and Hendrick found that satisfaction levels were higher where self-disclosure occurred in high levels.
Hass and Stafford found that in 57% of gay and lesbian couples: they said that self-disclosure was the way that they maintained their committed relationship.
Tang et al: Couples in the USA (individualistic culture) are more likely to self-disclose about sexual thoughts than people in China (collectivist culture).
Research into self-disclosure mostly focuses on a correlation between self-disclosure and satisfaction and not a causation.
Physical Attractiveness:
Shackleford and Larsen found that people with symmetrical faces are more likely to be rated as attractive: this is most likely a sign of genetic fitness. People were also attracted to large, separated eyes, a baby face and a small nose etc.
McNulty et al: found evidence that the physical attractiveness that initially brought people together remained important throughout the relationship.
The Halo Effect: Dion et al: 'what's beautiful is good' people who were physically attractive were consistently rated as kind, strong sociable and successful.
The Matching Hypothesis: Walster et al: we are more likely to select the person who matches our physical attractiveness than go for the most attractive…
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