| Mate Choice Copying means that the partner chosen by you has been selected or rejected by others before,which will increase or decrease the probability of choosing the partner.Therefore,mate choice copying is considered to be a non-independent form of mate selection strategy,which is affected by the additional information provided by individuals of the same sex in the process of sexual selection.This mate selection method is beneficial to reduce the loss caused by poor mate selection when information is limited during mate selection,and it can also reduce a lot of time and energy.Mating motive is a psychological ideology in which an individual wants to establish an intimate relationship with the opposite sex.The activation of mate motive can change people's behavioral decisions.Most of the research on mate choice copying focuses on the influencing factors involved in the subject,and the gender differences in mating choice copying have been controversial at home and abroad,and rarely involve the influence of situational factors.Therefore,this study adds situational factors.At the same time,it also adjusted the previous single evaluation indicators.Therefore,this study mainly discusses the influence of mating motive and target face attraction on the occurrence of mate choice copying in different genders.Accordingly,this study designed three experiments.The first experiment is to use the image method experimental paradigm to explore whether the mate choice copying of different genders occurs,by selecting the model and target photos of the middle faces that are selected in the pre-experiment.The experiment uses 2(example to target attitude:accept/reject)x 2(scores:once/twice)x 2(gender:male/female)three-factor mixed experiment design,The results showed that:(1)The interaction of the number of female participants' scores and the role of the model's attitude towards the opposite sex target were significant.Women have improved their evaluation of the opposite sex in the attitude of accepting goals in the role model,and reduced the evaluation of the opposite sex in the attitude of rejection,that is,females have mate choice copying.(2)The interaction of the number of male participants' scores and the role of the model's attitude towards the opposite sex target were no significant.Men have reduced their evaluation of the opposite sex in the attitude of accepting goals in the role model,and improved the evaluation of the opposite sex in the attitude of rejection,that is,males do not have mate selection.(3)Regardless of male and female.The interaction of love experience,relative attraction,the number of male participants' scores and the role of the model's attitude towards the opposite sex target were no significant.that is,these two factors do not affect the experimental results.On the basis of Experiment 1,Experiment 2 added the mate motivation activate and no activate materials to investigate whether the mate choice copying of different genders would change under different situations.The experiment uses 2(mate motive:start/non-start)X2(example attitude to target:accept/reject)×2(scores:once/twice)×2(gender:male/female)mixed experimental design,The results showed that:(1)When the start of mating motive,the interaction effect of the number of scores and attitudes is significant for both men and women,and the evaluation of the opposite sex is improved under the attitude of the target acceptance.The refusal attitude reduces the evaluation,that is,the mate selection occurs.(2)When the no start of mating motive,the experimental results are consistent with the experimental one,the female has a mate choice copying,and the male does not occur.(3)When the start of mating motive,differences in mate choice copying between different gender subjects are not significant.(4)When the start or no of mating motive,there was no significant about mating choice copying of female.That is,they all improved the evaluation of the opposite sex under the attitude of accepting,and lowered the evaluation under the attitude of rejection.Experiment 3 is based on the experiment 2,only the male subjects under the start of mating motive are studied.Change the neutral face attraction used in the experiment of the opposite sex in experiment 2 to the high and low face attraction photos selected in the pre-experiment,For male subjects to explore the start of mating motive,the attractiveness of the target opposite sex will change the occurrence of mate selection.Therefore,the experiment adopts 2(target heterosexual face attraction:high/low)× 2(example attitude to target:accept/reject)× 2(scores:once/twice),the results show:(1)the interaction effect of the target face attraction,number of scores and attitudes is significant.(2)When the target is opposite sex and the face is high attractive,the interaction effect of number of scores and attitudes is no significant,regardless of the attitude of the role model,the evaluation of the target was improved.(3)When the target is opposite sex and the face is low attractive,the interaction effect of the number of scores and attitudes is significant,In the acceptance attitude,the evaluation was improved,and the rejection attitude was lowered,that is,the mate choice copying was made.Therefore,from the above results,the following conclusions are drawn:(1)Women are more likely to have mate choice copying,regardless of general materials or special circumstances,and are influenced by the attitude of the same gender.(2)In males,the phenomenon of mate choice copying is affected by contextual factors.In the situation of starting mate motive,males have mate choice copying.In general,males do not have mate choice copying,indicating that males are less affected by the same sex group.(3)In the situation of starting mate motive,men and women initiated the same mate selection strategy,that is,mate choice copying was carried out,which was consistent with the choice of the same gender model.(4)For men,when the start of mating motive,the change of target face attraction will affect the occurrence of mate choice copying.When the target heterosexuality is high-face attraction,the subject does not undergo mate choice copying.When the target heterosexuality is low-face attraction the male has mate choice copying. |
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