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Evolutionary Psychology (Core Tenets (Cosmides &Tooby "modern…

- - - - inclusive: a measure of an individual's ability for direct and indirect reproductive success Hamilton i.e. their offsprings' survival taken into account
      - classical: measure of an individual's direct reproductive success i.e. ability to mate
    - - By-products: characteristics which don't solve problems/ have functional design but rather are coupled with adaptations e.g. belly button
      - Noise: random effects caused by chance mutations
      - Adaptations: inherited traits that emerged because they aid survival/ reproduction
- - - - Buss & Schmitt
        
        General prediction: ST mating = larger component of males' sexual strategy... find partners, find partners who are sexually accessible, minimise cost/risk/investment, identify fertile females
        
        Specific prediction: males will express higher desire for ST mating & higher frequency of partners
        
        Specific prediction: males more likely to have sexual relations after shorter amount of time
        
        Clark & Hatfield campus study "go out? / come to apartment?/ go to bed?"
        
        Findings:
        equal "go out" 50%
        sig higher males "apartment" <10% v 70% sig higher males "bed" 0% v >70%
        
        Specific prediction: male preferences for ST mate will reflect ST adaptive problems... found: ST and LT preferences different e.g. promiscuity, sexual experience
      - General prediction: females favour LT strategy... find those willing to invest, able to invest, protective, committed, parenting skills, good genes
        
        Specific prediction: in LT context, females desire ability to attain resources, ambition, wealth, earnings...
        Buss & Schmitt: 50ppts, females value career, finance, likelihood of success @ work etc in LT>ST
        
        Buss: universal: inter-continental consistency of preference for financial prospects women > men (Japan, Zambia, USA, Australia, Yugoslavia)