PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Attention Seeking, Personality Disorder, Sexual Selection

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Histrionic personality disorder is the female equivalent of a sociopath: exaggerated attention seeking behaviour, sexually provocative, easily influenced, perceive relationships to be more intimate. Cheating strategies must be different among sexes: guys: act more committed than they are and it pays off for them, girls: use the i need you so much strategy and keep boys enthused by their need. Histrionic females will abandon offspring voluntary to other family members who will be manipulated into being stuck raising the children. Histrionic females manipulate others to gain nurturance for themselves. Some ask why wasn"t this stuff weeded out by natural selection? this is because natural selection is not looking for perfection and does not have an agenda. As a society we have removed selection pressure and this lets a lot of heritable crap through the system which therefore lets bad phenotypes exist. The statistics on autism conclude that it occurs in 1 out of 80 people.

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