PSY 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Impact Factor, Obstetrics, Human Sexuality
17 Jul 2018
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Impact factor: how many people actually cite your article. Content analyses of all sex- research articles published: The new england jounrals of medicine (55. 873) Researchers also want to know what makes sex awesome, not just negative. Slight increase in more neutral topics across the 35 year time span. Sociosexology (won"t be on test, these terms, not seen in literature) Physiological: interplay of autonomic and nervous system, physio processes, and sex behavior. Evolutionary/sociobio, all about survival of the fittest, more adaptive genes will survive. You can be predisposed to having an easier time having an orgasm, or some predisposed to feeling more pleasure than others. Dixson, anderson: mesomorphic men (muscular) more attractive. More able to provide for the family, more attractive to females. Kendrick: exposed to avg women, higher commitment to partner. Exposed to attractive women, lower commitment to partner. Exposure to avg. men - high commitment. Exposure to high status men - lower commitment.
