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1
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when did Buss come up with gender differences in mate selection?

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1989

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Buss 1989: Method

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Questionnaires
10,000 men & women
from 37 different cultural groups

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Buss 1989: Method - Questionnaire demographic information

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age
gender
marital status

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Buss 1989: Method - preference for variables

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marriage
age difference
characeristics

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Buss 1989 - Results - Women

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women valued variables associated with gaining resources more highly than men

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Buss 1989 - Results - Men

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men valued variables associated with reproductive capacity more highly then women

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Buss 1989 - Conclusion - Women

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women have limited access to resources needed to provide for themselves and their offspring so they evolved to pick mates that could provide this

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Buss 1989 - Conclusion - Men

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the factor limiting men’s reproductive success has been access to fertile women, so they have evolved to be attractive to women so they can reproduce

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Buss 1989 - Evaluation - positive

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there were similar findings across a range of different cultures

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Buss 1989 - Evaluation - negative

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it wasn’t a truly representative study as it was hard to include rural and less educated populations

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What did Buss and Schmitt (1993) go on to develop?

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a more detailed evolutionary explanation for partner preference

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What is the name of the theory that Buss and Schmitt (1993) came up with

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Sexual Strategies Theory

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What does the Sexual Strategies Theory argue?

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it argues that men and women apply various different strategies for choosing partners, depending on the situation

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Why has the Sexual Strategies Theory evolved?

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they have evolved to help them meet the different requirements they have for long-term and short-term partners

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Sexual Strategies Theory example: Women

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Women try to assess the quality of a short term partners genes

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Sexual Strategies Theory example: Men

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Men are mostly concerned with a short term partners availability and fertility

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Buss and Schmidt Sexual Strategies Theory: Strengths

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the idea that men look for fertile women when looking for partners is supported by Singh’s waist to hip ratio experiment

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Buss and Schmidt Sexual Strategies Theory: Weaknesses

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There were more similarities then differences between men and women’s responses in Buss (1989) study