PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Assortative Mating, Extraversion And Introversion, David Buss

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Selection: people choose to enter some situations and avoid others, these situations can hinge on personality dispositions and how we view ourselves, choices range from trivial to profound, mate selection. Personality characteristics desired in a marriage partner: buss et al. 1990: what people prefer in lone term mate selection, personality characteristics play a central role in mate selection, dependable character, emotional stability, and pleasing disposition, close to big 5, dependability-conscientiousness, emotional stability, pleasing disposition-agreeableness, sociability, refinement and neatness. Other personality traits and the selection of situations: empathic volunteer more, psychoticism choose volatile and spontaneous decisions. Evocation: evocation: ways in which features of personality elicit reactions from others, personality characteristic evokes a predictable response from others. Evocation of likability, pleasure and pain: agreeableness, sociable component of extraversion and honesty-humility factors evoke likability. Manipulation: social influence tactics: all the ways in which people intentionally try to change the behaviour of others.