Gender differences in intensity of emotional response: An evolutionary perspective.
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Title
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Gender differences in intensity of emotional response: An evolutionary perspective.
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Identifier
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AAI9986346
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identifier
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9986346
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Creator
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Kleyman, Emily Z.
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Contributor
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Adviser: R. Glen Hass
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Date
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2000
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Experimental | Psychology, Social | Psychology, Cognitive
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Abstract
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According to the evolutionary paradigms of Trivers' (1972) theory of parental investment and Buss & Schmitt's (1993) Sexual Selection Theory, the parental behaviors and mate-selection preferences of males and females are different. Such that, vis-a-vis different reproductive physiology and parental demands, females' attractiveness to males is largely a product of their fertility or physical attractiveness and males' attractiveness to females is largely a product of their ability to acquire and share resources or status.;Because emotions are defined as adaptive systems of mechanisms that are designed to monitor our interactions with our environments and signal its fitness-promoting significance, we expected participants to experience emotional responses to environmental changes that signaled changes in sex-appropriate personal characteristics.;In studies 1 and 2 it was hypothesize: that male subjects would experience a more intense emotional response to changes in their status and female subjects would experience a more intense emotional response to changes in their physical attractiveness. For study 3 it was hypothesized that male subjects would experience a more intense emotional response to changes in their wives' physical attractiveness and female subjects would experience a more intense emotional response to changes in their husbands' status. Results revealed a significant 3-way interaction in each of the three studies, which supported the hypotheses of differential effects of environmental cues on the male and female participants.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
