PSY 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stanley Milgram, Social Influence
11 Dec 2018
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Women are more selective when choosing sexual partners. Men produce billions of sperm, while women only produce slim amount of eggs. Men are able to reproduce longer than women can (women"s biological clock is ticking) 40+ especially 45+ Pregnancy produced physical changed that increase nutritional requirement and puts them at risk of illness and death (conception and pregnancy) Caused by three types factors: situational the tendency for liking to increase with the frequency of exposure, mere exposure effect, physical, beauty: impacts attraction. Research shows that beautiful people have more sex, more friends, and more fun than the rest of people. Body shape: males are most attractive when their bodies resemble an intivrted triangle (broad shoulders with a narrow waist, women are most attractive when they resemble an hourglass (broad shoulders and hips with a narrow waist) Symmetry: bilaterally symmetrical faces and bodies are a mirror image to both side.
