Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intimate Partner Violence, Pubic Hair, Human Sexual Activity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Jeremy Roth

Document Summary

Sex research is core psychological science: clinical psychology, biological psychology, developmental psychology, personality psychology, social psychology, evolutionary psychology. Changes in behaviour and in capacity and inclination across the life span. Don"t have much interest in peoples sexual personality. Can"t get enough sex because evolution requires sexual mating and natural selection. Sex is starting line of the whole evolutionary story. Sex research is core social science: sociology. Impact of social structure and family structure including occasionally sexual endpoints. Core scientific analytic tool of sexual science such as, how does the endocrine system work and how does nitric oxide (viagra) have an impact on the human genitals. People want to know about sex: the social comparison motive: all human beings have a strong drive to compare their achievements to other, we can"t compare our sexuality to the person next to us. Functional anatomy of sexuality: anthropology, economics, history, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, endocrinology, virology people.