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Irene Hanson Frieze is a personality psychologist and pioneering figure in the field of women's studies. [1] She is known for her research on intimate partner violence in marriage and dating relationships, and for cross-cultural studies of attitudes about work and gender roles.
Dating preferences refers to the preferences that individuals have towards a potential partner when approaching the formation of a romantic relationship. This concept is related to mate choice in humans, the research literature there primarily discusses the preference for traits that are evolutionarily desirable, such as physical symmetry, waist-to-chest ratio, and waist-to-hip ratio.
Evolutionary psychology suggests that "women are the choosier of the genders" since "reproduction is a much larger investment for women" who have "more to lose by making bad choices." [10] Women's endorsement of gendered dating norms tends to increase with benevolent sexism, preference for dominant men and long-term relationships. [11]
Strategic pluralism (also known as the dual-mating strategy) is a theory in evolutionary psychology regarding human mating strategies that suggests women have evolved to evaluate men in two categories: whether they are reliable long term providers, and whether they contain high quality genes. [1]
Studies of mate selection in dozens of countries around the world have found men and women report prioritizing different traits when it comes to choosing a mate, with both groups favoring attractive partners in general, but men tending to prefer women who are young while women tend to prefer men who are rich, well educated, and ambitious. [8]
Mate preferences in humans refers to why one human chooses or chooses not to mate with another human and their reasoning why (see: Evolutionary Psychology, mating).Men and women have been observed having different criteria as what makes a good or ideal mate.
A revised questionnaire based on an instrument in a previous study (Hendrick et al., 1984) entitled Attitude about sex and love was administered to a group of psychology students. Results showed that Agapic lovers are willing to place their lover's happiness and needs before their own and endure all suffering and all things for the sake of ...
Relationship science is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to the scientific study of interpersonal relationship processes. [1] Due to its interdisciplinary nature, relationship science is made up of researchers of various professional backgrounds within psychology (e.g., clinical, social, and developmental psychologists) and outside of psychology (e.g., anthropologists, sociologists ...