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Why is symmetry attractive? |
asymmetry may occur i genes are flawed and symmetry takes less effort for the brain to process (we also prefer inanimate objects to be symmetrical) |
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describe Wodabi culture's mating rituals? |
men responsile for attracting women men will seduce other mens women by dancing |
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Historically how were females supposed to look? Males? |
women: voluptuous was sign of fertility, easier pregnancy, easier child birth men: muscles unattractive because associated with lower working clas |
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Cultural Imperialism |
other cultures desire to look like people from the west |
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Co Co Chanel |
popularized tanning by going on vacation previosly looks down on |
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How is femininity defined in modern culture? |
women entered workforce so the motherly aspect was less important, being voluptuous not as vital, full lips, small chin and nose |
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How are muscles on men seen now a days? |
men who work out have the time and money to get big so it implies attractiveness and wealth a class issue |
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Women's Preferecnes in Men |
must find good support for offspring: taller (better dan, provide rsouces and protection), short men considered less attractive around ovulation, sexually open women prefer masculine men |
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Men's Preferences in Women |
low cost, want to spread seed: younger women (more fertile), women 2.5 years younger, large breasts (obvious sign of sexual maturity) |
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Subcutaneous fat |
fat under skin, not bad like visceral fat around organs |
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cultural preferences of WHR |
china likes higher ratio, africa likes wider in front but higher from the side, african men who immigrated to britian began to prefer BMI in similar way of british men |
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Waist to Shoulder Ratio |
in men .75 is ideal |
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Vomeronasal Organ |
detects pehermones, likely not a structure in humans but we can still detect some pheremones |
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Other factors that relate to attraction? |
positive personality traits + picture were rated as more attractive, more diverse set of figures were attractive when they had positive personalities, personal experience: twins only agreed on hotness of theory 48% of time |
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Relationship between livign together first and divorce? |
people who don't live together less likely to get divorced, probably because heir region bans both living together and divorce |
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Coolidge Effect |
revival of arousal caused by novel stimuli |
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Habituation |
dulled response to stimulus after repeated exposure |
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Traditional Perspective of Sex |
sex is for procreation only, sex acts that don't lead to babies are suspect |
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Relational Perspective of Sex |
sex ok in context of marriage and committed relationship, no casual sex or extramarital sex |
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Recreational Perspective of Sex |
about pleasure, anything goes |
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Three Things that Predict Partner Choice |
proximity: the more people you interact with higher your partner choice similarity: age, attitude, looks (homogeny) Reciprocity: doesn't have to be 50/50 but their needs should match |
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Predictors of Relationship Success |
-feeling loved/appreciated -emotional closeness -sexual satisfaction(as sex increases so does relationship and vice versa) -communication and conflict style mindfulness |
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How have people attitudes towards sex changed over time? |
-"exrtramatiral sex is wrong" increased over time -"homosexual sex is wrong" decreased over time -"teens having sex" stayed the same |
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sociosexuality |
interest in sex without commitment |
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What are demographics for different perspectives of sex (tradiotnal, relational etc) |
women more traditional than men older more traditional than young educated more permissive |
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
what predicts if relationship will survive: -Criticism: when complaint becomes attack on other person (using the word you) -contempt: positive feelings become hate, disrespect, name calling -defensiveness: deny, cross-blaming, excuses -Stonewalling: silence, giving up, not engaging |
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Social Monogamy |
two people living together, cooperate in acquiring resources, have sex with each other (but not always exclusively) |
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Sexual Monogamy |
only have sex with each other |
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Genetic Monogamy: |
only have children with each other |
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Marital Monogamy |
marriage between only two people |
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Extrapair Paternity |
when father thinks he is reading his own child but not actually his |
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Describe Animal Monogamy |
birds most likely to be social monogamous but not sexually 3-5% animals socially monogamous, sexual monogamy rare |
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Sex Differences in Infiedelity |
stronger sexual interst and permissive values in men but if this is controlled for they are equally as likely to cheat |
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Albibi Network |
provdes albiis so people can cheat |
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Why did monogamy happen? |
males must ensure that their offspring are really theirs and that their resources remain in their family, had to limit women sexual behaviour shift happened when we became agricultural society |
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Polyamory |
many loves, in love with more han one person at a time |
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Polyfidelity |
group of people who have sex with each theory but not other people outside the group |
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Polygyny vs Polyandry |
gyny: 1 husband many wives, angry: one wife many husbands |
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do people forgive cheaters? |
people will forgive if they can make external attribution (not their partners fault) |
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Kraft Ebbing and Frueds views on atypical sex |
any sex not for procreation was a perversion or sexual deviance |
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sexual dimorphism |
differnce in appliances between male and females species |
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interpersonal Scripts |
patterns of behaviour decided by couple themselves |
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How does delaying sex in relationship affect it? |
delaying sex is associated with more relationship satisfaction because it weeds out those not looking for relationship |
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Paraphilia vs Paraphilic Disorder |
paraphilia is an intense and specific sexual preference, it becomes a disorder when it causes distress, impairment to individual or harm |
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Stats and Demongaphics of Paraphilias/ Disorders |
more men than women, starts around childhood/adolescence (12-14), more likely to have multiple disorders, may have lack of social skills, mood disorders, rage against women, cognitive distortions (ie. they think other people like it) |
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telephone scatalogia |
making obscene telephone calls to unconsenting strangers |
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What hormones responsible for pair bonding? |
oxytocin, vassopressin |
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What are the three components of love? |
-passion: psych and phys desire, initial heat -intimacy: emotional, beloved feelings, connectedness, -Commitment: cogntivie aspect, conscious desire to maintain relationship |
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Sternberg's Theory |
triangle with three components of love consulate love embodies all three |
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obsessive relational intrusion |
obsessive pursuit of person who has been rejected |
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Attachment Theory |
relationships are affected by quality of parent child relationship |
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HOmagamy |
couples tend to resemble to each other, predicts relationship success especially if they are similar in age |
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Sadomasochism |
pain, degredation, humiliation |
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Some rules in BDSM community |
-safe, sane, consensual: must be in sane state of mind, free of physical harm, no intoxication -risk-aware: engage in play despite risks -bottom sets limits -debriefing: time to settle and reconnect in different context -safe-words: red, yellow, green light |
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Arousal Transference Theory |
sympathetic nervous system responsible for arousal and flight or fight, heightened arousal, summative effect |
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Endorphin Theory |
release endorphins when injured |
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Escape From Self Theory |
life is full of stress and anxiety, and BDSM allows burden of everyday life due to intense experience |
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Power Release and Attainment Theory |
play BDSM role that is opposite of everyday life |
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Desirability Theory |
feel desirable by giving oneself over for another's pleasure |
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Myths about BDSM |
subs are not victims masters respect slaves scenarios are not required to get more extreme does not always involve sex people in BDSM score higher on levels of psychological adjustment |
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child molestation vs pedophile |
molestation is the behaviour and not always pedophiles we do it, they may not have skills to interact with adults, low cognitive unction or psychopaths pedeophile is the underlying disorder and attraction to children |
