1. Dating & Courtship Manifest and Latent Functions For Dating
“Birds Of A Feather” or “Opposites Attract”?
Factors of Attraction

2. Why Do We Date? Manifest Functions Latent Functions Maturation
Recreation
Companionship
Love And Affection
Mate Selection
Latent Functions
Socialization
Gaining Social Status (hypergamy and hypogamy)
Fulfilling Ego Needs
Opportunities For Sexual Experimentation And Intimacy
Big Business
Why Do We Date?

3. Birds Of A Feather Flock Together
Homogamy (endogamy): dating and marrying someone with similar characteristics
Key characteristics include propinquity, appearance, ethnicity and race, religion, age, social class, and values.
Homogamy narrows our pool of eligible partners; heterogamy expands it.
Heterogamy (exogamy): dating and marrying someone with characteristics different from ours
In terms of social standing, hypergamy and hypogamy are options.
Religion is less influential than race
Racial interdating is more common than racial intermarriage
“Opposites attract” is not supported by empirical data.
Which Is It?
Birds Of A Feather Flock Together OR
Opposites Attract
Homogamy & Heterogamy

4. Factors Of Attraction Proximity And Propinquity Physical Attraction
The Halo Effect
Beauty As Objective And Subjective
The Power Of Names
Conditioning Gets You In The Mood
Reciprocity
Does Playing Hard To Get Work?
Flirting Behaviors
Women are much easier to spot and notice
Men’s rituals fit into three categories: submissive, dominance, and resource displays.
ATTRACTIVE NAMES:
Alexander, Joshua, Mark, Henry, Scott, Taylor, Elizabeth, Mary, Jessica, Ann, Brittany, Isabella
UNATTRACTIVE NAMES:
Otis, Roscoe, Norbert, Ogden, Willard, Eugene, Mildred, Frieda, Agatha, Harriet, Rosalyn, Tracy
Factors Of Attraction