PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture 7: Women’s Long Term Mate Preferences- Context
7 Feb 2017
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Do mating preferences change across contexts: effects of personal resources on mate preferences. Test of the structural powerlessness hypothesis: effects of desire for a long term (vs short term) mate on preferences. What"s reall(cid:455) i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t for (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) seeki(cid:374)g a lo(cid:374)g ter(cid:373) (cid:373)ate: effects of mate value on mate preferences. Structural powerlessness hypothesis: so women want men with resources, but only up to a certain point, men are less concerned with finding a mate with resources since they have themselves to count on. What do successful women want: buss (1989) Looked at married couples where women were either financially successful or not. Found that successful women want successful men the more they made the more they wanted their partner to make: wiederman and allgeier (1992) Agai(cid:374) fou(cid:374)d that the higher the (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s success the (cid:373)ore the(cid:455) (cid:449)a(cid:374)t their mate to be successful: gil-burmann et al (2002) on spanish personal ads.
