Buss

What is sexual selection?

Why are these of interest to evolutionary psychologist?

How does Trivers (1972) explain "parental investment" to be a cause of desirable characteristics?

Who invests more in mammals and therefore what does this lead to in terms of "choosiness"?

How does Symons (1979) explain "Reproductive Value" to be a cause of mate preferences?

What does William (1975) attribute attractiveness of Youth to?

What does Daley et al (1982) suggest about the "Paternal Probability Theory"?

What did Buss want to investigate about evolutionary explanations and how do these link to the 3 ideas above?

Why are cross cultural studies ideal for this investigation?

How many samples, countries, continents, islands did Buss analyse and how big was his final sample size?

How did the sample sizes range and what was common of all the samples? What was the mean sample size?

How did the ages range?

How did the sampling techniques range?

Who collected the data and what was ensured of the research collaborators?

Buss used questionnaires with 2 to assess respondent's views on mating preferences. What did part 1,2 and 3 consist of in the 1st instrument?

What were the 4 target variables among the 18 characteristics?

What did the 2nd instrument consist of and what were the 2 target variables?

What were the jobs of the 3 bilingual speakers that the research collaborators had the task of employing?

What did translators have to ensure about all the terms?

How were cultural differences dealt with in the questionnaire?

How were "good financial prospects" valued?

How did Spain differ?

What do the overall findings about "good financial prospects" support?

How were "ambition and industriousness" valued? What does it support?

What was common among all males across all 37 samples?

What did males value more than females and what hypothesis did this support?

What finding falsified Symond's view?

What suggests that non-evolutionary factors may also be involved?

What did females across all countries prefer?

What was the mean desirable age difference in men, preferred mean marriage age in women and therefore the ideal male age? What does this support?

What was found in cultures where polygyny was substantial? (Nigeria and Zambia)

What were the findings for chastity?

What did Buss conclude?

What do his findings show about female choosiness and cultural influences?

What was the advantage of two questionnaires being used?

What is a disadvantage of closed questions in the questionnaire in Buss's study?

What's a disadvantage of the self-report questionnaire employed by Buss in reference to his research?

How were demand characteristics controlled?

How did control measures and translations increase internal validity?

Why does Buss's study have high population validity?

How was high mundane realism and therefor high ecological validity attained?

What is the advantage of both the self-selected and opportunity sample being used by Buss?

How were ethical guidelines approached in Buss's research?

What did Singh (1993) find about waist to hip ratio?

How do Singh's (1993) findings on WHR support Buss?

What were the findings of Dunbar's (1995) from gay personnel ads?

How does Dunbar's (1995) exp address the limitations of Buss's research and develop it?

What were Berezckei el al's (1997) findings about female mate preferences?

How do Berezckei el al's (1997) findings develop Buss's research?

What were Grammer and Thornhill's (1994) findings about female attraction towards males?

How do Grammer and Thornhill's (1994) findings contradict Buss's findings?