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androcentric bias |
considering the male experience as the norm, while the female experience is ignored or considered abnormal |
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inclusive fitness |
an organism's desire to pass it genes on to the next generation through reproduction or to ensure the genetic survival of kin |
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prototypes |
mental representations of categories, such as human faces, around their modal features |
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parental investment |
the different reproductive goals of men and women |
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heterozygosity |
an organism's ability to resist parasitic infections; it is conveyed by facial symmetry |
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"warm glow" heuristic |
a process by which a prototype leads to liking and liking in turn leads to perceptions of familiarity |
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sociocultural view |
the theoretical claim that sex differences in physical attractiveness are best understood as stemming from the division of labor in industrialized societies |
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"what is beautiful is good" stereotype |
our proclivity to attribute a host of positive qualities to physically attractive people |
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contrast effects |
a perceptual phenomenon that explains why our perceptions of an average looking person can be adversely affected if we had prior exposure to an extremely attractive looking person |
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matching hypothesis |
a theoretical statements that explains why partners in established relationships are generally well-matched in terms of their physical attractiveness |
