PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Golden Fleece Award, Zoophilia, Elaine Hatfield

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3AC3
• Professor: Jennifer Ostovich

Document Summary

Topic 1: introduction to the study of human sexuality. We want to be motivated to create offspring to evolve therefore our genes are telling us it is a fun pleasant thing to do. Sex is viewed as taboo especially by puritanical americans this makes sex research difficult. Hypothesis: hand was being used for masturbation and the women felt guilty so their hand became useless to them. Fleece award given to a researcher who had most fleeced the. American tax payers using grant money for doing useless research: 1st winner: elaine hatfield sex research was set back.