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Transcript: FACEBOOK PROFILE GROUP C Sexual selection Age: 40 years old Occupation: lawyer Single Parental Investment Theory-Trivers Asymmetries between the sexes in effort Careerist Single mother Expecting more parental investment Relationship preferences Relationship duration: Women - long-term Men - short-term Ideal partner age: Women - older partner Men - younger partner --> fertility “(…) while men are looking for women who can bear many children and thus are attracted to women’s youth, health and beauty.’’ (Pines, 1998) Beauty = health and fertility Physical attractiveness Symmetry Philosophy of Long Hair Makeup usage Social selection or Sexual selection? Slimness vs. plumpness Fertility - hip ratio References Facebook profile references Barber, N. (1995). The Evolutionary Psychology of Physical Attractiveness: Sexual Selection and Human Morphology. Ethology and Sociobiology, 16, 395-424. https://doi.org/10.1016/0162-3095(95)00068-2 Bereczkei, T., Vörös, S., Gál, Á. & Bernáth, L. (1997). Resources, Attractiveness, Family commitment; Reproductive Decisions in Human Mate Choice. Ethology, 103, 681-699. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.1997.tb00178.x Buss, D. M. (1989). Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 1-49. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00023992 Little, A. C., Burriss, R. P., Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., & Caldwell, C. A. (2008). Social influence in human face preference: Men and women are influenced more for long-term than short-term attractiveness decisions. Evolution and Human Behavior, 29, 140–146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. evolhumbehav.2007.11.007 Lyon, B. E. & Montgomerie, R. (2012). Sexual selection is a form of social selection. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367, 2266-2273. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0012 A-L M-Z Pines, A. M. (1998). A prospective study of personality and gender differences in romantic attraction. Personality and Individual Differences, 25, 147-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00054-3 Puts, D. A. (2010). Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 157-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.02.005 Street, S. E., Morgan, T. J. H., Thornton, A., Brown, G. R., Laland, K. N. & Cross, P. C. (2018). Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning. Scientific Reports, 8, 1715. 10.1038/s41598-018-19770-8 Wu, Q., Liu, Z., Liu, X. & Chen, D. (2022) The cost of beauty: Perception of makeup and male mate choice. Current Psychology, 65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02677-5