Transcript What is Psychology? - University of Toronto

What is the Evolutionary Psychologist’s
perspective on differences between
men and women?
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Natural Selection and sex
Male-Female asymmetry
Male parental investment (MPI)
Predictions from the theory
• Maximizing the genetic legacy
• Evolution and teleology (vitalism)
• “Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation”
(EEA)
• Naturalistic fallacy
• Trobrianders
• Male parental investment (MPI)
• Prostitution and pornography
• Male fear of “cuckoldry”
• The “Madonna-Whore” dichotomy
2 million years
time
40,000 years
Indispensable 3.0
Physical attractiveness of mate
Women
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
Unimportant
0
Bulgaria
Indispensable 3.0
Nigeria
Indonesia
Germany
USA
Financial prospects of mate
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
Unimportant
Men
0
Bulgaria
Nigeria
Indonesia
Germany
USA
Minimum acceptable IQ for partner
women polled
men polled
“to date with”
“to have sex with”
Long-term vs. short-term relationship
women polled
men polled
heart
rate
“emotional
attachment”
“sexual
infidelity”
Nature of partner’s imagined behavior
Selected bibliography concerning
evolutionary psychology and sex:
• Matt Ridley The Red Queen
• David Buss The Evolution of Desire
• Robert Wright The Moral Animal
• Donald Symons The Evolution of
Human Sexuality
• Martin Daly and Margo Wilson Sex,
Evolution, and Behavior