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Intimate Relationships and Marriage . Unit 3: Chapter 7. Theories of Attraction and Mate Selection. NATURAL SELECTION Women preferred to mate with men: _________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________
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Intimate Relationships and Marriage Unit 3: Chapter 7
Theories of Attraction and Mate Selection NATURAL SELECTION • Women preferred to mate with men: • _________________________________________ • _______________________________________________________________________ • Men preferred to mate with women: • who could bear __________________________ • who could feed _____________________________ • who had the ___________________________________________________________
Theories of Attraction and Mate Selection SOCIAL HOMOGAMY • ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Tests rating attractiveness have shown correlation for social homogamy: • Highest correlations found for age, race, ethnic background, religion, socio-economic status, and political views • Correlations were also found for physical characteristics, such as length of fingers and space between eyes, suggesting that people find others with a similar appearance attractive. (Buss, 1994).
Theories of Attraction and Mate Selection IDEAL MATE THEORY • Attraction is based on an _______________ _____________________________________ formed from his or her perceptions of the meaning of certain characteristics
Theories of Attraction and Mate Selection PROXIMITY • Is a major factor in mate selection • We are attracted to, fall in love with, and marry those who ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Theories of Attraction and Mate Selection _________________________________________
Theories of Attraction and Mate Selection • Romantic love has three faces: ________________________________________ • Passion: ____________________________________________ • ___________: an intense friendship, develops more slowly, each individual shares himself or herself with another and becomes willing to meet the other’s psychological needs • _____________: grows as the rewards of the relationship over others becomes evident, individuals accept reciprocal roles
Theories of Attraction and Mate Selection BERNARD MURSTEIN’S FILTER THEORY • Choosing a partner is a multi-step process • “Sifting”:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Courtship __________________________: individuals are attracted to each other, fall in love, and decide to marry ________________: allows individuals to win the affection of those to whom they are attracted __________________: The young couple would be tucked into bed with a “bundling board” between them so that they could have private conversations without sexual contact