Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stoicism, Physical Attractiveness, Heritability

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

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Gender roles: cultural expectations about what is appropriate behaviour for each gender. Traditional role expectations for males: achievement, aggression, autonomy, sexuality, stoicism. Matching hypothesis: people of similar levels of physical attractiveness gravitate toward each other, men can sometimes (cid:494)trade(cid:495) attractiveness for resources. Cooperation: situations which one individual helps another and in doing so also gains some advantage. Adaptive advantage clear: groups could accomplish more together than they could alone. When one individual helps another, but in doing so he or she accrues some sort of. Darwin recognized that (cid:494)altruism(cid:495) poses are a problem- how can evolutionary theory. Having offspring isn(cid:495)t the only way to ensure your genes are passed to future. Kin selection: behaviours that help genetic relatives may be favoured by natural. Reciprocity hypothesis: a helpful action is repaid at a later date by observers of the generations: help relatives- who share some of your genes- produce offspring helpful individual.