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Humor Production And Humor Receptivity In Relationship Satisfaction, Conflict And Quality, Elizabeth Herring
Humor Production And Humor Receptivity In Relationship Satisfaction, Conflict And Quality, Elizabeth Herring
Honors Projects
In his book, The Mating Mind, evolutionary psychologist, Geoffrey Miller, argues that women and men are differentially attracted to mate characteristics due to their adaptive qualities. Specifically, Miller argues that women find men who are intelligent to be desirable, in part, because intelligence is a signal of a healthy brain. A healthy brain is a desirable mate characteristic over the course of evolutionary history, in part, because it would have enabled men to provide resources for his mate and his family, thus, allowing the female to pass on her genes. Similarly, men find females who are physically attractive to be …
Sex Differences In The Use And Evaluated Helpfulness Of Premarital Advice, Neal J. Sullivan
Sex Differences In The Use And Evaluated Helpfulness Of Premarital Advice, Neal J. Sullivan
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to explore sex differences in the use and evaluated helpfulness of advice received before marriage. In addition, this study explored who typically gave premarital advice. Advice is considered by some to be a form of social support which can be helpful or hurtful to the marriage relationship. The sex of the advice-giver and advice-receiver as well as the relationship quality between them was explored in order to highlight how these variables affect advice use and helpfulness. Utilizing a questionnaire and interviews with individual newlywed husbands (n = 56) and wives (n = …