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Mate Choice Decision Of Female

Posted on:2008-01-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L N SuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360212990697Subject:Applied Psychology
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There are three parts in this paper. Researches of mate choice decision for female are reviewed in the first part. Many researchers focused on the preference of female in mate choice decision; meanwhile, others analyzed it by the way of revolution and cognition. Those researches show that mate choice decision of female is a multistage information process which is influenced by the feedback during it. And the way of information-searching is not reversible.Two experiments are contained in the second part. The results show that the process of decision-making for female mate choice is bounded rational: 1) the amount of candidates affects the decision maker on time of decision-making, depth of search and pattern of search in mate choice; 2) objects prefer to search information based on candidates instead of cues; 3) satisfaction can not be triggered by more candidates available; 4) personality, health and responsibility of male candidates are the top 3 key points in mate choice decision for female.The next experiment focuses on the unique part of mate choice decision: the feedback during it and the way of information-searching which is not reversible. It's also proved that the process of mate choice decision for female is bounded rational: 1) the evaluation of candidates will be improved by objects during process of decision-making; 2) objects lean to pick the candidates who are "better" than themselves; 3) the feedback from candidates during process of the mate choice decision for female affects the self-evaluation of objects and the behavior of latter decision-making.In the end, the whole study is reviewed and the practical values are pointed out. Then the deficiency in this study and the expectation in the future are put forward...
Keywords/Search Tags:mate choice, mate choice decision, mate choice decision for female, preference for female on mate choice
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