Question

Psychologists Simpson and Gangestad developed the concept of sociosexuality based on evolutionary theory. Then they developed the sociosexual orientation inventory. They employed the _____ approach to developing a model of personality.

Answer 1

Answer:

Theoretical

Explanation:

Socio-sexuality includes a series of facets or dimensions such as the desire to have several sexual partners, the number of sexual partners in life or in a certain period of time, the desire to engage in simultaneous sex (extramarital relations, infidelity in general), or attitudes towards casual sex without much commitment or emotional closeness, a romantic bond being dispensable.

Traditionally, ensocio-sexuality variation has been attributed to gender variation and has been interpreted from evolutionary psychology as evidence for theories such as parental inversion (1972), or the theory of sexual strategies (Buss & Schmitt, 1993; Cosby & Tooby, 1993) by being positioned as evidence of both a greater tendency of men than women towards a short-term sexual strategy, and of the different factors that determine romantic involvement.

Simpson & Gangestead condensed many of these attitudes, preferences, and behaviors into sociosexual orientation by creating the Sociosexuality inventory aimed at finding out preferences through a self-administered seven-question questionnaire that attempts to find out the number of sexual partners, the attitude toward sex without commitment. This questionnaire is also the pillar on which Penke's measure is based, called the Revised Sociosexuality Inventory, where two items concerning desire and attitude towards sex without commitment are added and three facets or dimensions of sociosexuality are grouped in order to be measured: desire, attitude and behavior.