PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Parental Investment

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3110
• Professor: Pat Barclay

Document Summary

A: some basic predictions: what would an outside observer predict about human mating, would you , basis of predictions: Biased operational sex ratio (this is different from sex ratio: predictions. Sex differences in body size and/or weaponry. Sex differences in willingness to engage in sex. B: effective polygyny (i. e. greater variance in male rs than in female rs: causes. Overstatement of these findings: much overlap between male and female preferences, differences are only in a few domains, and even then the distributions usually overlap: predicting cross-cultural variations in willingness to engage in sex.