The Relationship Of Self And Mate Ratings

In his article, The Strategies of Finding a Mate, David M. Buss discusses the act of finding a mate and the characteristics that people are drawn to in a mate. He begins the article with a brief look at the history of mating and the theories that have previously been proposed. In particular he addressed Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual evolution and belief in preferential mate choice. Buss proposes that there are three components to human mating. He states that “human mating is inherently strategic… mating strategies are context-dependent… [and that] men and women have faced different mating problems over the course of human evolution and, as a consequence, have evolved different strategies” (Buss, 1994, p. 241). He uses this theory to propose nine different hypotheses to prove that despite humans being varied and different from each other, all humans look for similar characteristics when trying to find a mate (Buss, 1994).

This essay aims to show a comparison between the differences between both female short-term mating strategies and female long-term mating strategies. It will explore the evolution of psychology that has shown reasons for human mating and how these reasons go above and beyond the general idea of physical attractiveness and love. This essay will identify how mate preferences have evolved and further identify psychological mechanisms that women have used to select their mates over the past. This essay will compare and critically discuss the differences and outline them between female short-term mating strategies and female long-term mating

I found the test results of the Big Five personality assessment to be an interesting and very accurate description of myself. After completing this assessment, I was able to analyze my personality in depth. I found this information to be helpful knowledge and provide insight about myself, as well as being crucial in examining my personality traits. The big five is also referred to the OCEAN model of personality, and stands for the main traits used to describe personalities. This acronym stands for openness to experience/intellect, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. After taking the test I was then given percentile scores that allowed me to compare myself with other people who have taken the test online as well, therefore making it a more meaningful comparison.

The Big Five Model or the five-factor model of personality which is typically called the Big Five—has received strong supporting evidence. An impressive body of

How we select and lose our mates has always been a source of fascination and in the article, “The Strategies of Human Mating”, by David Buss surveys college students and more than 10,000 adult males and women from 37 countries to record that in the sexual selection process, humans choose between temporary (casual) and long-term (co-parenting) and use many strategies to draw in and keep a partner. There were 9 hypotheses Buss came up with about explaining different strategies of a long term and short term relationship between men and women. The hypotheses were that short term mating is more important for men than women, men seeking a short-term mate will solve the problem of identifying women who are sexually accessible, men seeing a short-term mate will minimize commitment and investment, men seeking a short-term mate will solve the problem of identifying fertile women, men seeking a long-term mate will solve the problem of identifying reproductively valuable women, men seeking a long-term mate will solve the problem of paternity confidence, women seeking short-term mate will prefer men willing to impart immediate resources, women will be more selective than men in choosing a short-term mate and lastly women seeking a long-term mate will prefer men

The Big Five is a personality test based off the FFM (five factor model) which looks at the five core traits people have. The test looks at openness to new experiences, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism and their opposites. It scales the individual to see what trait they are more likely to have based of how they act on a regular basis.

In psychology, the Big Five personality traits are five broad domains or dimensions of personality that are used to describe human personality. The theory based on the Big Five factors is called the Five Factor Model (FFM)[1] The Big Five factors are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

Partner and spousal selection is one of the biggest decisions one can make in his or her life. It is a decision that not only affects daily aspects of life, but also the future trajectory of one’s journey and family of procreation. Several facets contribute to the process of choosing a long-term domestic partner, including socioeconomic status, geographic proximity, religious beliefs, education and family values. However, one of the most important contributors is the personality of each of the individuals making up the couple. Personality traits influence initial attraction of two people, relationship interaction styles and the longevity of commitment. As the field of personality has continued to flourish, a substantial amount of research

Every person has their own unique personalities. There are many different types of personality but researchers focus on the Big Five. The Big Five includes Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. Many personality tests are used to determine the ranks of the Big Five of a person.

A popular topic by social psychologists, but very different in nature, is the way that men and women differ in terms of mate selection. In a study done by Manning, Longmore, and Giordano (2007), 76% of seventh, ninth, and eleventh graders said that they would probably or definitely get married in the span of their lifetime. Furthermore, men and women prove that the stereotypes that are given to genders are, for the most part, true; men typically desire physical attractiveness and women typically desire financial stability and intelligence (Helgeson, 2012). This paper will examine what preferences are most common in mate selection between gender, and the difference in preferences across genders.

The tables are different, one is about what men seek in a relationship. Next, the second one is about what the women look in men and the last one is about what men and women are looking in a relationship. All this will help to be able to give a more precise description of the way that the University of Texas at San Antonio students thinks. In the survey done to the men, there was a total of 28 traits. In several occasions the traits were repeated; in other words, an overall of 271 tallies were used. In the results, there was a big difference between the traits most selected and the less. The trait that more men selected was funny with a total of 16.6 %. In another hand, which was less mentioned was stable with 0.04 %. The most representative or significant traits are six, after these traits the percentages declined drastically. The most prominent are funny, attractive, honest, smart, loyal and trust. On the contrary, the top five of traits less mentioned are: cuddles, feminine, openness, selfness and stable. Many women say that men only care about how women look. The data set showcase that it is an important factor for them, but it is not everything. In the top five is mentioned attractive; nevertheless, the other four traits are related to the personality. In general terms, the men look more for a woman with big personality and of course without leaving behind the beauty. In the following

Mate selection is an evolutionary process in which selection is dependent on the attractiveness of an individual’s phenotypic trait, such as age and sex. For example, women feel that reliability, dominance, wealth and generosity are important in a mate, while men believe attractiveness and creativity are important. Women investment more time in searching for a mate because women are, typically, responsible for birthing and raising a child and need a mate that would protect her and their offspring and provide for them. Men, on the other hand, do not invest much in mate selection. When resources are scarce, women seek resources in their mate and man look for attractiveness. However, the goal is to locate the best possible mate.

The Big Five personality test was created in the 1970 's by two independent research teams. One team with Paul Costa and Robert McCrae, and the other with Warren and Lewis Goldberg. The two teams had different methods that they tested but in the end they both ended up with the same results. The results were that no matter what culture, race, or language people have their personality fits into five dimensions of personality. The five dimensions were created after reviewing lots of surveys and data analysis called factor analysis. Now, just forty years later the Big Five is one of the most commonly accepted personality models.

Personality is an intriguing component in psychology vital for the perception of human beings. Understanding and defining personality has proven to be a difficult task. It is so complex, in fact, that no single theory can adequately define it. If one was to ask an ordinary individual to do so, some of the most common answers might be “a person’s characteristics” or “the impression (s) one makes on others”. Personality Theorists on the other hand view personality as the essence of the person, the individual’s

The three variables being correlated in this study are extroversion, fear of negative evaluation, and mate-seeking behaviors. I hypothesize that people with high levels of extroversion and mate-seeking scores will be positively correlated with satisfaction with life, and people with high levels of fear of negative evaluation will be inversely correlated with satisfaction with life.