PSY 1102 Lecture : PSY1102

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

According to evolutionary psychology (ep), men and woman have the same goal. Men want to survive and transmit their genes into the future, as do women. However, according to ep, we have different strategies to achieve the goal even though the goal is the same. We have differences in terms of reproductive capacity. When women are pregnant, it takes them on average 9 months to produce 1 baby. It takes roughly a lifetime for 24 babies. For men, if they have partners in 12 days they can have 24 babies. Our strategy according to ep is to stay off of sex until they have a partner that will stay with them (relational sex). On the other hand with men, according to ep, the best way to transmit genes is to have multiple partners. Physical attraction is not ranked 1, kindness and intelligence are. It makes no sense for nature to have opposite strategies for both genders.