What are the characteristics you want for your husband?

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What Women Want

From The Evolution of Desire by David Buss

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 Women invests more than men do which is a typical scenario to other beings with some exceptions like: Mormon cricket, pipesh seahorse, and Panamanian poison arrow frog. Evolution favored women who were highly selective about their mates.

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Human sexual psychology evolved over millions of years to cope with ancestral adaptive problems.

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Components of Desire

Generous man or stingy man?

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Components of Desire
A woman must evaluate her unique and personal needs. Women must identify and correctly evaluate the cues that signal whether a man indeed possesses a particular resources. Women must face the problem of integrating their knowledge about a prospective mate.

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Components of Desire
Some attributes are granted more weight than others in the nal decision about whether to choose or to reject a particular man. One of these heavily weighted components is the mans resources.

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Economic Capacity

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Economic Capacity
The evolution of womens preferences for a permanent mate with resources need three preconditions: Resources must be accruable, defensible and controllable by men. Men would have to differ from each other in their holdings and their willingness to invest. Advantages of being with one man outweigh the advantages of being with several men.
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Social Status
Tiwi Yanomamo Ache Kung

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Social Status
Power is the most potent aphrodisiac
Henry Kissinger

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Age
Power Prestige Control

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Age
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Anthropologists believe that ability may peak when a man is in his thirties, at which point his slight decline in physical prowess is more than compensated for by his knowledge, patience, skill, and wisdom.
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Size and Strength

Physical characteristics such as athleticism, size and strength convey important information that women use in making a mating decision

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Size and Strength

Women sometimes face physical and sexual domination by larger, stronger men. It undoubtedly occurred regularly during ancestral times.

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Size and Strength

BARBARA SMUTS a primatologist who studied mating patterns of baboons in the savanna plains of Africa observed that female baboons exchange sex for protection

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Size and Strength

A mans size, strength and physical prowess are cues to the problem of protection a woman can have when permanently mated

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Size and Strength

Ratings from different groups of American women showed that: Shorter men are undesirable as permanent mate Tall, athletic and physically strong mean are more desirable Five feet and eleven inches as height for an ideal marriage partner
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Size and Strength

Tall men tend to have a higher status in nearly all cultures Western culture: leaders, professionals Mehinaku tribe of the Brazilian Amazon

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Size and Strength

Height constitutes a reliable cue to dominance in social interactions... (Buss qtd. Ellis) ...The mere fact of height creates a measurable advantage...A powerful wrestler, say the villagers, is frightening...he commands fear and respect. (Buss qtd. Gregor)
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Good Health
Women worldwide prefer mates who are healthy. Biologists CLELLAND FORD and FRANK BEACH found that signs of ill health are universally regarded as unattractive.

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Good Health
Consequences if a woman selected a sickly mate in the ancient times: Put herself and her family at risk of being contaminated with the disease Her mate was less able to perform essential functions and provide crucial benets to her and her children
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Good Health
Consequences if a woman selected a sickly mate in the ancient times: Her mate was at increased risk of dying, prematurely cutting of the ow of resources If health is partly heritable, she risked passing poor genes for poor health to her children
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Love & Commitment

Given the tremendous costs women incur because of sex, pregnancy and childbirth, it is reasonable for them to require commitment in return.

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Love & Commitment

Women face the adaptive problem of choosing men who not only have the necessary sources but also show a willingness to commit. Love is one of the most important cues to commitment.

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Love & Commitment

A study done by SUE SPRECHER and her colleagues on students where they asked if one would still marry a man that possesses all characteristics they want for a mate but wasnt in love with him showed that: 89% of the American students and 82% of the Japanese students will not marry the man 59% of Russian students will not marry the man
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Love & Commitment

Kindness is an enduring personality characteristic with many components but at the core is the commitment of resources. Lack of kindness means selshness.

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Love & Commitment

Requiring love and kindness helps women to solve the critical adaptive mating problem of securing the commitment of resources from a man that can aid in the survival and reproduction of her offspring.

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The multiple facets of current womens mating preferences thus correspond perfectly with the multiple facets of adaptive problems that were faced by our women ancestors thousands of years ago...
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Questions

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1. Advantages of being with one man the advantages of being with several men.
a. outweigh b. equate c. are outweighed by

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2.

is the most potent aphrodisiac.

a. money b. power c. sex appeal

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3. The ideal height for a marriage partner according to a study done.

a. 6 b. 57 c. 511

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4. Lack of kindness means

a. evilness b. selshness c. indifference

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5. Author of The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating

a. David Buss b. Pete Wheeler c. Kenneth Kosik

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reported by: ambrocio, rene angelo & mariano, shyrill mae

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