PSYCH 3F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Personal Advertisement, Bride Price, Work Ethic
13 Apr 2018
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Humans are only mildly effectively polygynous ancestor m and f would have experienced similar selection pressures. Sex differences will reflect quantity rather than kind. Us colleges men and women rank dependable character, emotional stability and maturity, and pleasing disposition in a mate very highly. But men placed more value on health, domestic skills, and appearance, while women placed more value on ambition and industriousness, educational background, and financial prospects. Bbc asked participants to rank preferences in a mate men emphasize more on good looks and face attractiveness, and women on honesty, humour and kindness/dependability. Trait ratings clustered by sex straight and gay men had similar outlooks in traits for their partner, and country of origin had a small effect. Favours specific phenotypic cues of : fertility, ex. estrogen levels are signalled in the face men and women rated high estrogen composites more attractive, healthier and more feminine, ex.
