PSYCH 3AC3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ovulation, Menopause, David Buss
3 Apr 2018
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Sexual access, better quality mates, offspring survival, coalition building, paternity certainty. Puzzles: ability to reproduce (youth and beauty = reproduce), paternity uncertainty (hidden ovulation) Reproductive fitness: youth: reproductive value: curve describing reproductive probability until death, peaks around 17-20, is about quantity but men want quality. Feminist control hypothesis: men want younger wives so can control them, subjugation: kendrick et al. : teenage boys would date woman up to 6 years older a 26 year old woman (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)olled (cid:271)(cid:455) a(cid:374) (cid:1005)8 (cid:455)ea(cid:396) old. Three components: behaviour (youthful, energetic), facial beauty, physique. Skin: light tone, rosy, youthful, clear, unblemished signals absence of parasites, health, youth. Preference for % of body fat is variable across time and culture because shows food availability: cultures where famine is likely prefer higher body fat, cultures where no expectation for shortage prefer lower body fat because signals wealth. Preference for ovulating women better likelihood of fertilization, efficient time use, energy, sources, timing of mate-guarding efforts.
