Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Issues And Debates In Relation To Other Topics
- Relationships
- Gender And Culture
- Mate Preferences
- The evolutionary theory of mate preference emphasises the difference between what each gender looks for in a person.
- This could be an example of alpha bias. Do women and Men not look for the same characteristics like kindness and loyalty when looking for a partner?
- There are cultures and even subcultures where arranged marraiges are successful or emphasise on wealth from both partners -This is not Western.
- Free will and determinism
- Evolutionary explanations for partner preferences.
- States that we are attracted to people who offer potential to provide and care for healthy offspring and that we have no choice in that attraction.
- This is no doubt deterministic. How much are we really in control of our partner choices?
- However elements Such as similarities in attitudes and complimentarity would suggest an element of free will
- Nature vs Nurture
- The evolutionary explanations for human reproduction explanations for human reproductive behaviour vs cultural differences
- The evolutionary stance is nativist, so any evolutionary theory for mate preference is stating the importance of genetics
- However it can be argued that since cultural differences are found in attractiveness globally this suggest that mate preference is environmentally determined (Nurture).
- Idiographic vs Nomathetic
- All theories vs individual preference
- The theories of relationship formation, maintenance and breakdown all take a nomathetic stance. They generalise across people and there is no personalisation
- e.g. Duck's Phase model of relationship breakdown
- Ethical Implications
- The evolutionary explanations for human reproductive behaviour
- e.g Brehm(1992) - Research that looks at potential problems in relationship can be devised and cause relationship breakdown.
- Relationships as a topic have the potential for research that could effect participants negatively
- This could make people worry about their own relationships and maybe even cause people to break up out of fear
- Holism and Reductionism
- Why someone chooses a partner and maintain a relationship
- The evolutionary explanation for partner preferences is biologically reductionist because it implies there is some genetic transmission of that behaviour
- There theories on relationship maintenance and attraction look to an interaction between 2 people- this is holistic
- Schizophrenia
- Forensic Psychology
- Nature vs Nurture
- Free will vs Determinism
- Gender and Culture
- Idiographic vs Nomathetic
- Holism and Reductionism
- Ethical Implications