The Selfish Gene

Dawkins, Richard; Davis, Niki

doi:10.4324/9781912281251

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“…Thus, the high consent rate to casual sex might be explained in evolutionary terms as a high consent rate to evaluate a potential partner through short-term mating. Alternatively, the result can be explained by the sexy son hypothesis, stating that females engage in short-term mating with attractive males as a mean to get physically attractive sons, who in turn will produce more grandchildren (e.g., Dawkins, 1976).…”

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Gender Differences and Similarities in Receptivity to Sexual Invitations: Effects of Location and Risk Perception

Baranowski

Hecht

2015

Arch Sex Behav

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Since the publication of the seminal paper by Clark and Hatfield (1989), there has been an ongoing discussion about their finding that men accept sexual invitations from females more willingly than vice versa. We focused on two questions that have not yet been answered: First, what happens when the same request for casual sex is made in a different setting where social pressure is lower and such a request more common? To address this issue, 6 male and 8 female average looking confederates approached 162 men and 119 women either at a university campus or in a nightclub and asked for a date or for casual sex. The gender difference remained, with significantly more men than women consenting to a sexual invitation. The second issue concerned the perceived risk for women of accepting such an offer. We made up an elaborate cover story and invited 60 male and female participants into our laboratory. They were shown 10 pictures of persons of the opposite sex and led to believe that these people either consented to date or to have sex with them. The participants then could choose from the pictures who they wanted to meet to engage in a date or sex. In this subjectively safer environment, the gender difference disappeared, with the same proportion of men and women consenting to a date or sex. However, men were more liberal in their choice in either condition, compared to the female subjects. We conclude that while gender differences remained in both experiments, women were more liberal in a subjectively safer situation.

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Gender Differences and Similarities in Receptivity to Sexual Invitations: Effects of Location and Risk Perception

Baranowski

Hecht

2015

Arch Sex Behav

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“…Dawkins (1989) following Darwinian theory, proposed an influential conception of evolution: Our genetic code is fundamentally responsible for our actions -including our reproductive behavior. In a rearticulation of Darwin's original ideas regarding sexual selection, Dawkins argued that our genes ultimately encourage reproduction.…”

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Playing Smart: The Mating Game and Mating Intelligence

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Current work investigated the extent to which mating intelligence was related to one's own mate value as well as the value of one's mate. We hypothesized that (1) mating intelligence is positively correlated with measures of self-perceived mate value, (2) greater mating intelligence is associated with greater partner mate value, (3) greater mating intelligence is associated with less mate settling, and according to Parental Investment Theory, females are predicted to have significantly higher mean mate value than males. Along with the adoption of the Mate Value Inventory and Mating Intelligence Scale, a method was developed to assess a more objective rating of self and partner's physical attractiveness. A large sample (N > 500) was obtained for this study via internet survey. As predicted, mating intelligence appeared to be a valid predictor of one's own value in the mating market, as well as the quality of mates that one can attract. High mating intelligence also corresponded to lower mate value discrepancy within a mateship. That is, high MI tended to go with a relatively small gap between the mate value of oneself and the mate value of ones partner, or less mate settling. Moreover, the positive relationship between objective and subjective ratings of self and partner's physical attractiveness suggests that participants were able to judge themselves and their partners through the eyes of another. In all, evidence from the current work suggests that mating intelligence has important implications for individuals' mating behavior within the mating market.

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“…It includes the individual, couples, families, groups, culture, and their operating systems that mutually shape and influence each other. The primary mode of operation is language and non-verbal modes of communication that, through a multigenerational transmission process, transmit memes (social units) (Dawkins, 1976) just as genes transport genetic codes.…”

Section: Level Iv: Sociocultural-familial Triangle (Mesosystem)mentioning

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Psychodynamic Family Psychotherapy: Toward Unified Relational Systematics

Magnavita

2009

The Wiley‐Blackwell Handbook of Family Psychology

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This chapter presents an evolving model of relational psychodynamic family psychotherapy that is strongly embedded in personality systematics and relational science. Early versions of this model have been previously published (Magnavita, 2000(Magnavita, , 2002. Psycho-dynamic psychotherapy has expanded in its domain of operation from primarily an intrapsychic-biological model, originated by Freud, to one that is embedded in the relational matrix and personality systematics . There are other earlier versions of psychodynamic and relational approaches that share many features of this model but are beyond the scope of this chapter to review (Magnavita, 2007). One such model representing a significant advance is Wachtel's (1977) "cyclical psychodynamic" model that initially integrated both psychodynamic and behavioral approaches and later was expanded to include a systemic component, further broadening its application and theoretical explanatory power.New ideas emerge and are differentiated from existing ones and then inexorably integrated and absorbed into the mainstream. This dialectic process has allowed the field of psychodynamics to evolve into a theoretical and clinical approach that maintains some of the more robust constructs of affective-defensive operations, the power of unconscious processing, and transference-schematic representational systems which guide interpersonal relationships. This has been shaped by a number of disciplines such as neuroscience, system theory, developmental psychopathology, attachment theory, and affective science. The advancements in system theory 1 (von Bertalanffy, 1969) and ecological theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) have enveloped psychodynamics in a new, unified theoretical approach that depicts interrelated domains that can account for the spectrum of psychopathological-dysfunctional adaptations at the individual, dyadic, triadic, and sociocultural level (Magnavita

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The Selfish Gene

Cited by 535 publications

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Gender Differences and Similarities in Receptivity to Sexual Invitations: Effects of Location and Risk Perception

Gender Differences and Similarities in Receptivity to Sexual Invitations: Effects of Location and Risk Perception

Playing Smart: The Mating Game and Mating Intelligence

Psychodynamic Family Psychotherapy: Toward Unified Relational Systematics

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