1、中文 2050 字， 1100 英文单词， 6000 英文字符 文献出处： Hetsroni A. Choosing a Mate in Television Dating Games: The Influence of Setting, Culture, and GenderJ. Sex Roles, 2000, 42(1-2):83-106. Choosing a Mate in Television Dating Games: The Influence of Setting, Culture, and Gender Amir Hetsroni This work examines th
2、e influence of setting (TV dating games vs. question- naires), culture (America vs. Israel), and gender on mate selection. Ordinary men and women, ranging in age from 16 to 24 years, took part in this study as participants in a TV dating game and as questionnaire respondents. A content analysis of 8
3、0 dating games from the United States and Israel yielded 258 topical categories (76 from American shows and 182 from Israeli shows) used to screen potential mates. Two hundred and four questionnaires yielded 408 topical categories (200 from American questionnaires and 208 from Israeli questionnaires
4、). Both genders in both countries used physical categories more often in the TV dating games than in the questionnaires. There was an effect of culture: Americans regardless of setting and gender employed the physical categories less often than Israelis. There was also a small effect of gender, show
5、ing men more often employ physical categories, especially in questionnaires. The results attest to the strength of the mass media capability to reduce gender differences in mate selection, but they do not strongly support Baumeisters theory of female erotic plasticity. INTRODUCTION In todays world,
6、one of the primary means of socialization and sources of knowledge is that of popular culture, including the mass media (see, for instance, Berger & Luckman, 1967; Hawkins & Pingree, 1982; Gerbner, 1998). Whissell (1996) contends that the examination of gender roles, courtship habits, and mate selection criteria as they are depicted in popular culture is, in view of its salience in modern life, of enormous value to human mating research. There is wide support for the claim that televisio
