AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In sum, men appear to value physical attractiveness, health, and a want for home life and children in their long-term mates, whereas women appear to value maturity, dependability, education, social status, and financial stability.

Detailed explanation-2: -Evolutionary theory suggests that attractiveness is determined by cues linked with fecundity and that BMI and WHR are both important. However, there are other ‘third filter’ cues, such as skin quality.

Detailed explanation-3: -The basic principle is that the preferred mate choices and attendant social cognitions and behaviors of both women and men, and those of other species, have evolved to focus on and exploit the reproductive potential and reproductive investment of members of the opposite sex.

Detailed explanation-4: -Evolutionary psychologists find that men in almost all cultures are attracted to women based on youthful physical characteristics that seem to denote: fertility and good health.