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Sex Differences in Romantic Kissing Among College Students : An Evolutionary Perspective
by: shinta, 20 pagesThis study provides a descriptive account of kissing behavior in a large sample of undergraduate college students and considers kissing in the context of both short-term and long-term ...
Predictors of How Often and When People Fall in Love
by: shinta, 24 pagesA leading theory of romantic love is that it functions to make one feel committed to one’s beloved, as well as to signal this commitment to the beloved (Frank, 1988). Because women tend to be ...
Impact of Relational Proximity on Distress from Infidelity
by: shinta, 21 pagesMen are generally more distressed by a partner’s sexual infidelity whereas women are generally more distressed by a partner’s emotional infidelity. The importance of the identity of the ...
Mate selection criteria : A trait desirability assessment study of sex differences in Serbia
by: shinta, 11 pagesThis paper examines predictions from evolutionary and socio-structural perspectives on sex differences in mate selection criteria on a sample of 127 respondents from Serbia. The respondents, mainly ...
Sexual selection and the Male :Female Mortality Ratio
by: shinta, 20 pagesThis paper extends the evolutionary understanding of sex differences in mortality rates by quantifying and graphically examining the overall Male to Female Mortality Ratio (M:F MR) for 11 specific ...
Common ground for spatial cognition ? A behavioral and fMRI study of sex differences in mental rotation and spatial working memory
by: shinta, 28 pagesSex differences in spatial cognition are well documented; males typically outperform females on tasks dealing with mental rotation and spatial navigation, while females tend to outperform males on ...
The Effect of Vividness of Experience on Sex Differences in Jealousy
by: shinta, 12 pagesDoubt has been raised about the validity of results that appear to demonstrate sex differences in the type of infidelity that elicits jealousy. Two studies explored proposed methodological weaknesses ...
Non-Euclidean Navigational Strategies Of Women: Compensatory Response Or Evolved Dimorphism?
by: shinta, 10 pagesThe proposition underlying this study was that females’ use of topographical, rather than Euclidean navigational strategies emanate from a separate evolved mechanism rather than a compensatory ...
An Evolutionary Interpretation of Gift-giving Behavior in Modern Norwegian Society
by: shinta, 20 pagesWe have studied gift giving at Christmas among 50 graduate students in Norway. The students invested more the closer the coefficient of relatedness. However, partners ranked highest, which is natural ...
Sex Differences in Jealousy in Response to Actual Infidelity
by: shinta, 9 pagesThe present studies address two criticisms of the theory of evolved sex differences in jealousy: (a) that the sex difference in jealousy emerges only in response to hypothetical ...
