PSYC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Casual Sex, Physical Attractiveness, Female Promiscuity
23 Dec 2020
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One common argument is that women trade youth and beauty for money not for reproductive purposes but, rather, because they lack direct access to economic power. With this hypothesis in mind, steven gangestad examined women"s access to wealth in each of the countries in buss"s cross-cultural study. He found that the more economic power women had, the more important male physical attractiveness was to them. This suggests it may be the generally low social and economic status of women relative to men that leads them to care less about the physical attributes of a potential mate. Another argument concerns the finding that men are more fearful of a mate"s sexual infidelity (which threatens paternal certainty), while women worry more about emotional infidelity (which threatens future support). In other words, the man"s concern, may be over the threat to the relationship not fatherhood issues.
