Author Question: According to your textbook's criticism of the evolutionary-psychology approach to love ... (Read 34 times)

jjjetplane · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

According to your textbook's criticism of the evolutionary-psychology approach to love relationships,

a. women actually give negative evaluations of reliable men who are nice guys..
b. most men and women actually say that they plan to have just one sexual partner once they settle down.
c. the evolutionary approach can explain same-gender preferences, but not heterosexual preferences.
d. the evolutionary approach does not explain all the data, but it is more accurate than the social-roles explanation.

Question 2

Critics of the evolutionary approach to preferences in love relationships point out that

a. the evolutionary approach has failed to identify any genetic mechanism for the proposed gender differences.
b. the approach overemphasizes the importance of physical attractiveness and underemphasizes human intelligence.
c. cultural differences in mate preferences are much smaller than gender differences in mate preferences.
d. the approach does not predict any gender differences.