PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture 5: Women’s Long Term Mate Preferences- Attractiveness
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Attractiveness serves as a cue for like protecting (i. e. big and strong, athleticism), signals general health and good genes. Preference for physical strength: all animals go for this, gladiator frogs. The male frogs job is to build a good home for the family. Why physical strength: definitely more important in africa than in canada because we are safe here. Women prefer tall men, also physically athletic men. Tall men desirable and short men undesirable: cameron et al (1978) The tinder of back then was the newspapers. Women who mentioned height wanted a man who was 6ft or taller, ads placed by men who claimed to be taller got more responses than men who did not. Muscles: women like men with muscles, dixon et al (2003) Women in sri lanka and here like muscular lean men: gregor (1985) Survey where they asked women what types of looks interested them preference for v-shaped torso.