Author Question: You and your friends decide to hold a heterosexual speed-dating event on campus. At this event, male ... (Read 124 times)

torybrooks · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

You and your friends decide to hold a heterosexual speed-dating event on campus. At this event, male students sit at tables arranged in a circle and have 3-minute conversations with a series of women.

After each 3-minute period has ended, the women rotate in a clockwise direction and sit down with a new male student. When asked about their dating experiences after the event, research suggests that
a. the men should be somewhat pickier in terms of rating which women they would like to see again.
b. the women should be somewhat pickier in terms of rating which men they would like to see again.
c. the men should focus less on facial symmetry in assessing their dates' attractiveness.
d. the women should focus less on facial symmetry in assessing their dates' attractiveness.

Question 2

Research indicates that a face's symmetry is a reliable predictor of how attractive it is seen to be. An evolutionary psychology explanation for this finding would be that

a. symmetrical faces remind us of ourselves and therefore elicit positive feelings.
b. symmetry is a sign of health and that a potential mate has good genes.
c. Western cultures place a greater emphasis on physical attractiveness than do Eastern cultures.
d. all of the above