The phenomenon I am studying is what men and women want in a significant other. Relationships are an important factor in happiness for people overall but I wanted to see if there was anything one gender was specific on more than the other. I researched personal advertisements to understand what each gender is looking for and how they describe themselves online. My hypothesis for this project is men will be more willing to find someone for a short period of time whereas the women will be looking for a long-term relationship in their potential advertisements.
Method
I used classifiedads.com to find 30 personal advertisements from men seeking women and 30 personal advertisements from women seeking men. I copied the advertisements directly from the website, spelling mistakes and all, to keep the authenticity of the personal advertisements entacked. Once I finished copy and pasting the 30 advertisements for the men seeking women in all to a word document and the other 30 advertisements for the women seeking men in a different word document, I went online and downloaded the free version of the software ATLAS.ti. This software is a coding system for qualitative data collected in experiments. I uploaded the two separate documents of men seeking women and men seeking women to the software.
After uploading the documents I indicated what codes I wanted to include for the software to find. The codes I used were character traits, physical traits, previously divorced or widowed, how
health, people are likely to pair up with partners of averagely the same level of
Online dating has altered the process used for obtaining a romantic partner as well as has altered the process of compatibility matching. Online dating has created a new platform for meeting potential partners. Romantic relationships contribute to emotional well-being and individuals crave the intimate connections that are formed through their romantic partnerships; it is a fundamental part of human motivation. These dating sites have created a medium for potential partners to meet by alleviating the daunting task of conventional dating by solving the problems such as lack of access to potential partners, confronting potential partners regarding their romantic availability, and gathering the courage to approach strangers face to face (Finkel, Eastwick, Karney, Reis, & Sprecher, 2012).
For the first interview, the advertisements were initially presented as a holistic set to encourage comparisons among the ads, and then each ad was discussed individually. As this process was rather cumbersome and resulted in tremendous repetition, for the second interview each ad was discussed only individually. Often, however, this individual presentation did not directly encourage informants to comment on gender in the ads. In the final interview, the researcher clustered the ads into groups of twos or threes that facilitated direct comparisons
I thought the section of intimate relationships was interesting that the matching hypothesis suggest we are likely to be with a person that is similar to ourselves in physical attractiveness and other assets, but it also similarities in our personalities, intellectual ability, education, religion, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and attitudes.
In the article Arbitrary Social Norma influence Sex Differences in Romantic Selectivity, the authors Eli J. Finkel and Paul W. Eastwick set up a study where men and women speed dated. Speed dating is where either men or women rotated from one partner to the next while the other remained seated.The authors tried to investigate how people initiate romantic relationships. The gap that this is addressing is women approaching men since it is not a normal thing for women to do.
The method that in Figure 14-2 is pretty similar how picking potential partners, That I look to people who around me and who are single, to attractiveness, to their view and personality. For the couples I have seen through the generation of my family it seem like all have a major things common in cultures, views, or in my parents case special circumstance. For my parents the special circumstances was the fact both of my parents were deaf. Therefore, the abilty to communicate was the most important to my parents. Also, in my grandparents relaltionships on my dad side because for most of their lives they only spoke Spanish because they were immigrants from Puerto Rico. For other relationships age, race, education and
Out of the 97 participants 25 were male and 72 were female. In the second study there was a total of 45 participants that were gathered from various advertisements posted on craigslist.org. They were offered the chance to win a new iPod or a $50 gift card in exchange for their involvement in the study. Out of the 45 participants 10 were male, 34 were female and one was unspecified.
In this paper, I will be writing a personal journal entry in response to the textbook, “Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity (9th ed.)” written by Spencer Rathus, Jeffery Nevid, and Lois Fichner-Rathus (2014). They discuss attraction and an attraction-similarity hypothesis. Rathus et al. define the meaning as, “…people tend to develop romantic relationships with people who are similar to themselves in physical attractiveness and other traits” (p. 193). With so many different physical features, shapes, heights, and weight of all people, the hypothesis makes sense and in general I have witnessed most couples to also fit this hypothesis. However, the text further discusses that physical attractiveness is more important to the male when selecting a female partner. I have also witnessed this trend with couples and the female being more physically attractive in the relationship. Going deeper attraction can also be based on similar interests, personalities, intelligence, education,
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
Results of Study 3 & 4 also confirmed our hypothesis that lack of confidence in managing romantic relationship mediated this effect. Although the psychological mechanism that hinges the power and mating together is the deepest of the kind in social psychology (Foucault, 1978; Freud, 1905; Marcuse, 1974), its implications in consumer decision making have rarely been explored. To the best of our knowledge, this research is the first one examining the effect of power and mating on variety seeking in consumer
to look at two paintings by two artists. Results demonstrated that men evaluate artwork based on the artists, where women based
A logistic regression analysis was also conducted to predict participants’ relationship status (coded as 0 = single, 1 = in a relationship) using participants’ age and body type as predictors. The logistic regression model was statistically
1. Cut out 3 or 4 magazine ads that feature pictures of men and women. Tape your ads to the walls of the classroom and then walk around and look at what everyone else brought in. Participate in a group discussion on any patterns you detect. What consistent stories about gender are told in these ads? How do these images compare to the images in music videos?
Sampling will be relatively easy, by selecting male and female groups from within groups of college-educated individuals, and the budget will be compromised almost entirely by paying the researchers and possibly compensation for the participants, so it is a low-cost project as well. Literature has documented the difference between men and women in the job market, so it would be interesting as well as informative to create my own research study to better understand such a phenomenon. Following this study, it would be interesting to follow up on my findings, to further understand exactly where the differences lie; is it a socially-drawn difference, a biological difference, or another option? The first step is, of course, to understand as best we can that there is a difference before we can make these next attempts at furthering our knowledge, and this study should be able to provide just the foundation that we
While there are many ways to find potential dates online, the use of dating websites – websites specifically oriented toward helping people looking for romance – is increasing rapidly and has become a common used means of finding potential romantic, or sexual partners (Ellen, 2009). In U.S survey of general public, only fifteen percent said they knew someone who had been in a long-term relationship with, or married, someone they met online (Madden & Lenhart, 2006). To participate in most online dating websites, an individual registers by providing basic or personal information, filling out a profile indicating desired mate preferences, and sometimes completing personality tests. Most websites offer their