Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Physical Attractiveness, Stoicism, Heritability

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

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Online discussion: due sunday october 19th (if you use studies that you read, its good; mixture of findings and opinion based on experiences. Gender roles: cultural expectations about what is appropriate e behaviour for each gender traditional role expectations for males: What do men & women want? for both men & women the top 3: mutual attraction, dependability, emotional stability for men: physical attractiveness; health are rated important for women: earning potential, status, ambitiousness are rated important initial. Kin selection: behaviours that help genetic relatives may be favoured by natural selection. Having offspring isnt only way to ensure genes are passed to future generations. Helping relatives- who share some of your genes-have offspring. Reciprocity hypothesis: a helpful action is repaid at a later date by observers of the helpful individual. Is there benefit to donor? maybe donor is repaid by his/her everyday companions.