PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Parental Investment, David Buss, Casual Sex
13 Mar 2017
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Me(cid:374)"s short ter(cid:373) (cid:373)ati(cid:374)g prefere(cid:374)(cid:272)es: costs and benefits of short term mating strategies. Lack of parental investment in offspring: disease, reputation, violence, retaliatory affairs by long term mate, may have to settle for lower quality mate. Me(cid:374)"s short ter(cid:373) (cid:373)ati(cid:374)g puzzles: adaptive problems associated with short term mating strategies, gaining sexual access to a variety of partners, avoiding commitment. Impregnating women: evolved psychological mechanisms to solve these problems, lowered standards, lust. The problem of gaining access to many women. Less attractive women are more likely to say yes: gladue & delaney (1990, men rate attractiveness at a bar at various times of night (9pm, I thi(cid:374)k (cid:455)ou"re reall(cid:455) attractive, would you like to go on a date with me: men and women = 50% say yes. I thi(cid:374)k (cid:455)ou"re reall(cid:455) attra(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e, (cid:449)ould (cid:455)ou like to (cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to the apart(cid:373)e(cid:374)t with me: men = 70% say yes, women = 10% say yes.
