A new study suggests individuals choose a partner based upon their perception of a potential mate’s attributes and upside or downside potential. Researchers determined men and women often use a framing process evaluating suitors from both positive and negative perspectives. Still, as described in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, decision-making varies as each gender uses different criteria and viewpoints to make their choice. For example, researchers from Concordia University discovered men responded more strongly to the “framing effect” when physical attractiveness was described. Also, it may come as a surprise to learn that when we choose a partner, the framing effect is even stronger in women than it is for men. “When it comes to mate selection, women are more attuned to negatively framed information due to an evolutionary phenomenon called ‘parental investment theory,’” said Gad Saad, Ph.D. “Choosing someone who might be a poor provider or an unloving father would have serious consequences for a woman and for her offspring. So we hypothesized that women would naturally be more leery of negatively framed information when evaluating a prospective mate.” To prove this, Saad and fellow researcher Tripat Gill, Ph.D., called on hundreds of young men and women to take part in their study. Participants were given positively and negatively framed descriptions of potential partners. For example, “Seven out of 10 people who know this person think that this person is kind” (positive frame) versus “Three out of 10 people who know this person think that this person is not kind” (negative frame). The researchers tested the framing effect using six key attributes, two of which are more important to men and women respectively, and two that are considered as necessities by both sexes: ??? attractive body (more important to men); attractive face (more important to men); earning potential (more important to women); ambition (more important to women); kindness (equally important to both); intelligence (equally important to both). Participants evaluated both high-quality (e.g. seven out of 10 people think this person is kind) and low-quality (e.g. three out of 10 people think this person is kind) prospective mates for these attributes, in the context of a short-term fling or a long-term relationship. More often than not, women said they were far less likely to date the potential mates described in the negatively framed descriptions —even though in each instance, they were being presented with exactly the same information as in the positively framed descriptions. Women also proved more susceptible to framing effects in attributes like ambition and earning potential, while men responded more strongly to framing when physical attractiveness was described.
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新研究表明,個(gè)人在選擇伴侶時(shí)往往基于潛在另一半的個(gè)人特征及其上升潛力或下行空間。 研究人員稱,男性和女性通常運(yùn)用框架思維,從積極和消極兩個(gè)方面去評(píng)估追求者。 盡管如此,正如雜志《進(jìn)化與人類行為》所講,不同性別做決定時(shí)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)與觀點(diǎn)有所不同。 例如,來自肯高迪亞大學(xué)的研究者發(fā)現(xiàn),當(dāng)外表吸引力被發(fā)現(xiàn)時(shí),男性對(duì)于“框架效應(yīng)”往往會(huì)做出更強(qiáng)烈的反應(yīng)。 并且,我們驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn),當(dāng)我們選擇伴侶時(shí),框架效應(yīng)在女性身上的體現(xiàn)甚至比男性更強(qiáng)烈。 “當(dāng)我們選擇伴侶時(shí),女性更傾向于選擇消極的框架信息,這應(yīng)該歸因于一個(gè)被稱為‘親本投資理論’的進(jìn)化現(xiàn)象,”薩德-加德博士說。 “選擇那些貧窮的養(yǎng)家者或者缺乏愛心的父親將會(huì)給一個(gè)女人和她的后代帶來嚴(yán)重的影響。因此我們推測女性在衡量未來的另一半時(shí),對(duì)消極信息更加敏感?!?/p> 為了證明這個(gè)理論,薩德及其同事崔帕德·吉爾博士,邀請(qǐng)了上百個(gè)年輕的男性和女性參與調(diào)查。 參與者都被給予潛在伴侶的積極和消極的框架說明。例如,“認(rèn)識(shí)這個(gè)人的10人中有7人認(rèn)為這個(gè)人是好人”(積極的框架)以及“認(rèn)識(shí)這個(gè)人的10人中有3人認(rèn)為他不友善”(消極的框架)。 研究者用6個(gè)關(guān)鍵性控制程序測試框架效應(yīng),其中的兩個(gè)分別對(duì)男性和女性更重要一些,并且這兩個(gè)被看做是兩性必需品: 有吸引力的身體(對(duì)男性來說更重要) 有吸引力的面孔(對(duì)男性來說更重要) 收入潛力(對(duì)女性來說更重要) 雄心壯志(對(duì)女性來說更重要) 仁慈善良(對(duì)兩性都很重要) 聰明智慧(對(duì)兩性都很重要) 參與者通過這些特征,在一個(gè)短期戀情或者長期關(guān)系的情境下來衡量高品質(zhì)的(10人中的7人認(rèn)為他是好人)和低品質(zhì)的(10人中的三人認(rèn)為他是好人)未來伴侶。 通常,女性稱她們不太可能與消極框架下的潛在伴侶約會(huì),盡管在每個(gè)例子中,她們被提供的信息和積極框架下的信息幾乎完全相同。 同時(shí),研究也證明女性會(huì)對(duì)框架效應(yīng)更加敏感,尤其像抱負(fù)、收入潛力等特征,而男性則更看重外表。 (譯者 劉欣? 編輯 Julie) 掃一掃,關(guān)注微博微信
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