PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Handicap Principle, David Buss
14 Apr 2016
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Preference for physical strength because it resembles the ability to acquire resources and protection. Buss and schmitt: women judged short men as unattractive for stm and ltm while height and strength was preferred for both. Cameron: 80% women advertise for a man over 6ft tall and taller me had signiicantly more responses to their ads. Dixon: cross-culturally found preferences for muscular lean physiques. Gregor: south american tribe whichever man won the wrestling context is the man of the culture and gets all the mates muscles mean more power and demand for respect. Hughes: in us, found traits of height, shoulder width, upper-body muscles were sexually attractive to women and intimidating to men signals an adaptive beneit . Asked women how willing they were to date men based on their athletic abilities and status. Athlete is signiicantly more preferred over a non-athlete. High status men preferred signiicantly over low status.
