PSY 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Emotional Affair, Cuckold, Resource Depletion
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Men report more distress to the sexual infidelity than women. The costs of tolerating sexual infidelity in one"s mate is higher because of paternal uncertainty. Males who invest in offspring must avoid cuckoldry. Cuckold: spouse of an unfaithful, who expends parental effort in offspring not his own. Women more distressed over emotional infidelity than men. Emotional infidelity may signal resource depletion, so women can be emotionally jealous. Attraction-similarity hypothesis: we are attracted to people with similar background and spaces. Mere exposure: the tendency to like/prefer things more due to previous encounters. Angular features, prominent brows/chins, shoulders > waist. Neotenous facial features (large eyes, soft chin, steep forehead, etc. ), feminine features (linked to estrogen), low waist to hip ratio (0. 72) Disgusted by: opposite sex sibling, close age of sibling, women more than men. Smelly t-shirt: the more different in schent from one"s own scent, the more the women found the male"s t-shirt more attractive smelling.
