Exam 8: Love and Romantic Relationships

Gangestad and Thornhill (1997)found that men with bodies that were more symmetrical

Which of the following statements is FALSE about how people view sexual and emotional infidelity?

Compared to women,men are more likely to downplay their sexuality in a questionnaire.

Constanza conducts some research in which she has participants list the traits they would find desirable in a mate.She ends up with a list of over 75 items and wants to find out if those 75 items can be clustered into groups.What statistical technique should Constanza use?

Someone who would agree with the statement,"I feel resentment if I believe I have spent more on a friend's present than he/she spent on mine" could be described as having a/an ________ orientation towards relationships.

Individuals who are only comfortable having sex within the confines of a loving,committed relationship are said to have

Research has found that all of the following personality characteristics contribute to unstable marriages EXCEPT

What are the gender differences in jealousy described in the textbook? How might these differences have been adaptive (for each gender)?

Research has demonstrated that females prefer an unattractive male in a business suit to an attractive male in a fast food uniform.How might evolutionary theory explain this?

Which of the following situations is relatively most likely to lead to divorce?

Raul spent the afternoon at a funeral thinking about his own death.What is Raul most likely to feel after this experience?

What is one weakness of factor analytic studies of love?

Explain why children who were close friends in a kibbutz tend not to marry each other as adults,and what empirical data it violates.

Your relationship with your romantic partner is defined by ________ love,whereas your relationship with your sister is defined by ________ love.

The hormone testosterone is related to ________,whereas oxytocin is related to ________.

Which of the following is the threat that causes us to feel most strongly the need to be with our romantic partners?

A statistical technique,used in research on love and other topics,that sorts items into conceptually similar groupings is known as

Polygyny (one man with multiple wives)is permissible in ________,and polyandry (one woman with multiple husbands)is allowed in ________.

Which of the following is the result of the human need to belong?

Which of the following is true regarding cross-cultural studies of women's attraction to men's status?