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Before Tinder   

Personal ads – stated characteristics desired and offered All talked about age, resources and physical appearance Studies found females looked for older males and resources and males looked for younger women and physical attractiveness, older females – wanted fewer traits, more attractive femals wanted more traits, Older males – offered more traits and males with fewer resources focused more on family commitment.

How Honest?   

Females 935-50) more likely to withhold information about age. Males self-reported greater dominance-/ambition Both more likely to lie to prospective dates about less veritable characteristics

Modern Day   

Use visual photos, age and small self-description Females more likely to get attention Males had a slower response and fewer likes – males liked more just to find a match and females had to be liked before liking

Dating site pictures   

Males post 54% of pictures , females 90% Males took more selfies from below – increase height , body size and jawline Females took more selfies from above – shortness, make head look bigger compared to body, physically flattering.

Dishonest indicators  

Accuracy of profile photos – online daters said photos accurate and independent judges found 1/3 inaccurate Females less accurate – more likely to use younger photos of themselves, professional and edited, changes in hair style and skin quality.

Parental Investment Theory    

Imbalance in amount of time each parent invests in offspring Sex that invests most resources in raising offspring are more selective when choosing mate Sex that invests ;less compete for access to higher-investing sex Greater potential investment = offspring survival

Sex differences in human parental investments    

Females – much greater parental investment Males – can impregnate a number of females simultaneously Distinct sex-specific costs involved in mating Females react more to emotional infidelity and males react more to sexual infidelity.

Paternity uncertainty 

Men are never certain of genetic paternity of their child , invest into another mans pffspring which suggests sexual infidelity is worse than emotional

Female Certianty 

Females know child is theres so prefer mate who can offer resources, females risk losing these resources which risks own and offspring survival so find emotional infidelity worse

Evidence 

Buss 1992 – Imagined sexual/emotional infidelity, found males had greater distress to sexual infidelity.

Hypothetical vs real infidelity   

Contradictions in literature 2 identical studies Both studies found the same patter – males sexual infidelity and femailes emotional infidelity.

Neuroimaging   

fMRI study Males – greater activation in amygdala (sexual/aggression) Females – greater activity , posterior superior temporal sulcus (Detection of deception/trustworthiness)...