Answer the following questions on your own sheet of paper.

1. You are on a boat that overturns 1. You are on a boat that overturns. It contains your 5-year-old and 1-year-old children (of the same sex). The boat sinks and you can only save one. Whom do you choose to save? 2. That same boat (you are slow to learn lessons) contains your 40-year-old and 20-year-old children (both of the same sex). Neither can swim. As the boat sinks, whom do you choose to save?

3. Would you rather marry someone older or younger than yourself? 4. Of the following six, which three are the most important in the selection of your mate? A. Good financial prospects B. Good looks (face) C. A caring and responsible personality D. Physical attractiveness (body) E. Ambition and industriousness F. An exciting personality Men: C, D, F Women: A, B, E

5. You and your spouse are the proud parents of a new child 5. You and your spouse are the proud parents of a new child. The grandparents are ecstatic. Who do you think will be kinder to the child? mother of the mother mother of the father

Younger parents or older parents 6. Who will mourn more at the death of a child? (pick one out of each pair) Father or mother Parents of the father or parents of the mother Younger parents or older parents

7. Which will elicit more grief? (pick one out of the pair) Death of a son or death of a daughter

Rate 1-13 in order of importance for your future mate Good housekeeper Kindness and understanding Good heredity Religious orientation Good earning capacity Intelligence Desire for children Physical attractiveness Exciting personality Good health Adaptability Creativity College graduate

Characteristic Preferred by Males Characteristic Preferred by Females 1. Kindness and understanding 2. Intelligence 3. Physical attractiveness 3. Exciting personality 4. Exciting personality 4. Good health 5. Good health 5. Adaptability 6. Adaptability 6. Physical attractiveness 7. Creativity 8. Desire for children 8. Good earning capacity 9. College graduate 10. Good heredity 10. Desire for children 11. Good earning capacity 11. Good heredity 12. Good housekeeper 13. Religious orientation

Evolutionary Theory: Gender Differences and Infidelity Among married individuals born between 1953 and 1974, 27.6 percent of men and 26.2 percent of women reported being unfaithful. Women said the reason for infidelity was “marital dissatisfaction” more than men Men’s infidelity is more likely to be a “one night stand” with someone of limited acquaintance, and to involve sexual intercourse.

David Buss surveyed 511 college students with the following results: Would you be more distressed if you found that your romantic partner was (1) having sex with someone else or (2) was becoming emotionally involved with someone else? David Buss surveyed 511 college students with the following results: 83% of women found their partner’s emotional infidelity more upsetting(2), whereas only 40% of the men did. In contrast, 60% of the men experienced their partner’s sexual infidelity (1) as more upsetting and only 17% of the women did. Why?

Evolutionary psychology suggests that the answer largely revolves around the question of paternal uncertainty. Males never have absolute certainty of their biological parentage, whereas females do. In the pursuit of reproductive success, a man must always consider the possibility that he is investing all his resources in another man’s children. Females are more sensitive to the possibility of male abandonment, for it would decrease the survivability of her children. Thus, she is more concerned about her partner’s emotional involvement with another woman.