PSYC 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: T-Shirt, Ovulation, Child Ballads
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Want genes to survive for generations to come. *** disclaimer - we have to give up principles of equality and fairness or social justice as well as feminism and social justice to understand what evolution theory expects us to act*** Just because that"s what it predicts, not necessarily what it should be. We look for how fit our reproduction options are. We are attracted to features that we think will survive evolution. We pick up on health by looking at people (no defects) we want to create healthy off spring. Most commonly occurring genes are most attractive (because they are familiar, and if they are common then it is clear they survive) averageness predicts survival. We are attracted to composite faces because they take the most common features and blend them into one face. Facial asymmetry is associated with more health problems indicates more diseases and genetic defects.