Evolutionary explanations to gender roles

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Buss, 1989 - Cross-cultural study - Men look for physical attractiveness - Women additionally look for resources a partner might be able to provide
Kuhn and Stiner, 2006 - Suggests gender division of labour might explain survival of the homo sapiens and not the Neanderthals - Both men and female Neanderthals hunted (no division of labour)
Baron-Cohen, 2002 (E-S theory) - Proposed that women being better at emphasising and men being better at systematising may be the result of a selection pressure - Suggested that males who were able to systematise with greater precision would have gained an evolutionary advantage
Taylor et al, 2000 - Proposed women be more focused on interpersonal relationships might stem from different challenges faced when dealing with stress in EEA - Showed that in women, levels of oxytocin increased with stress
Waynforth and Dunbar, 1995 - Differences in the way males and females advertise themselves - 44% of males sought physical attractiveness compared to women - 50% of women offered attractiveness whereas only 34% of males did
Tzedakis et al, 2007 - Other theories are just as plausible to explain the disappearance of the Neanderthals such as climate change in Europe
Ennis et al, 2001 - Conducted a natural experiment to test male-female differences in stress responses - Sampled cortisol levels and found males levels increased during stress and females levels decreased
Stanford, 1999 - The meat-sharing hypothesis - An outcome of men becoming hunters due to selective pressures, is meat being used as a means of attracting female interest
Baron-Cohen, 2004 (Cognitive Style) - Men and women do think in different ways which align with predicted differences in cognitive style - Developed a systematising quotient questionnaire - Found that men tended to be systematising and women tended to be empathising
Baron-Cohen, 2004 (Autism) - Proposed that maybe autism is an example of the extreme male brain - Those who autism score high at systematising and low on empathising
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