PSYC 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Gonad, Y Chromosome, David Buss
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18- confounds to this study: safety issues that females experience which males do not experience. Women are less likely to go to a stranger"s house. They did a follow up study where a friend of the participant said oh no they are a really great guy or girl, you would be safe with them. Evolutionary perspective: females have to bear children and need to pick mates which are suitable. Women have a higher parental investment in children. 19- males are less discriminating and seek more partners than females. Asked people how many sex partners they would like to have within a given time. Females would be attracted to males who can provide resources- industriousness, ambition, etc. Males would seek women who appear to be fertile- attractiveness (a cue that a mate would be able to successfully reproduce), youth. Buss and angleitner: had people rate qualities they thought were important in mates.
