Psychology 3724F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Evolutionary Psychology, Agreeableness, Physical Attractiveness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3724F/G
• Professor: Lorne Campbell

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Chapter 8 note: reading minds, partners and relationships. Looking through the eyes of love: reality versus illusion in intimate relationships. Evolutionary psychology rests on the darwinian assumption that mate selection criteria in species, and their associated attributes, evolved according to natural and sexual selection. The force of sexual selection to produce the cumbersome, dazzling tail of the peacock relies on the ability of the peahen to accurately perceive the size and quality of the peacock"s tail. The darwinian assumption entails that human judgments of important attributes in the mating game, such as attractiveness, status and kindness of trustworthiness, are assessed with reasonable accuracy. Love is both blind and firmly rooted in the real world . In this study participants initially either completed short exercise designed to buttress perceptions of the relationships with their partners as rarely initiating disagreement or as being very similar to the self, respectively.