Attraction Psychology

Contrast the male and female strategies for the evolutionary perspective of mate selection.

According to the evolutionary perspective, men and women have similar mate selection strategies: they want to mate with someone who gives them the best chance of productive reproduction.

Attraction is the measure of romantic love between two individuals.

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Most relationships will enjoy equal amounts of intimacy, passion, and commitment.

F

Read the scenario below and answer the question that follows. Frank is living in a third floor apartment. He has four neighbors on the third floor: Judy, who lives next door, Henry, who lives two doors down, Polly, who lives three doors down, and Julian, who lives four doors down. In accordance with the effects of proximity, which of the following is the most likely outcome of this living arrangement?

Frank and Judy will become friends.

Based on the evolutionary perspective of mate selection, what is the best explanation for an individual's mate selection preferences?

Individuals want to increase their chances of successfully producing offspring.

Name and describe the three components of romantic love.

Intimacy, which involves feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness Passion, which involves feelings and desires that lead to physical attraction, romance, and sexual consummation Decision/commitment, which involves feelings that lead a person to remain with someone and move toward shared goals

According to the evolutionary perspective, the amount of parental investment a female puts into the relationship is generally larger than that of a male.

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Describe the four primary factors in attraction and why each is important to relationship formation.

The four primary factors in attraction are proximity, physical attractiveness, similarity, and reciprocal liking. Proximity is the relative distance between two people. The nearer two people are to one another, the more likely they are to develop a relationship. Physical attractiveness is the physical appearance of a person, and it has been shown to have a great effect on how willing people are to begin a relationship. Similarity is the degree of shared characteristics or qualities between two people. Research has shown that a high degree of similarity is a key factor in measures of attraction. The last factor is reciprocal liking. Reciprocal liking is the degree to which people return the like or love that they receive. Research has shown that expressing like or love to another is likely to elicit reciprocal feelings.

If two individuals are categorized as having used complex matching to date, what can be assumed about them?

The individuals differ greatly in physical attractiveness.

Passionate love is generally comprised of which two components of romantic love?

intimacy and passion