What is the matching hypothesis?
What will be an ideal response?
The matching hypothesis predicts that men and women will choose as mates people who match them on physical and social characteristics. People who match will provide each other with similar rewards on dimensions such as attractiveness, social status, and wealth. As such, people at all levels of attractiveness find partners, reflecting the operation of matching.
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a. 25% b. 40% c. 60% d. 85%
Which of the following might make it difficult for Monica, like many sex workers, to leave the profession of prostitution?
a. she wants to run her own business b. she is single and not supporting children c. she is involved in a job training program d. she is living in extreme poverty
The religious tradition underlying Western ethics has almost always seen sexual intercourse as
A. a legal right of the individual outside marriage. B. primarily a means of pleasure. C. legitimate only in marriage. D. the acceptable outcome of an individual's sense of autonomy.
Person A completes the Bem Sex Role Inventory, selecting the following items as most self-descriptive: competitive, self-reliant, independent, and assertive. Person A would be considered _______.
a) feminine b) masculine c) androgynous d) undifferentiated