This paper describes the potential study in how the societal norm of sexual permissiveness hampers the elusive attraction of “playing hard to get” within the genders. This is important in the advancement of social psychology in terms of situational factors influencing gender attraction qualities. This potential study may advance the concept of situational factors sometimes overpowering attribution factors when a population has a surplus of marriageable women, leading to a societal norm of sexual permissiveness and delayed marriages (Gutentag, and Secord, 1983). Hatfield, Walster, Piliavin, and Schmidt (1973) described “playing hard to get” as an attribution quality in that the women who is hard to get is a more desirable catch than the women who is too eager for an alliance. This paper analyzes studies and literatures on the impact of elusive attraction, sexual temptations, and situational factors that create attraction between the genders. It examines the elusive phenomenon, when does “playing hard to get” increase romantic attraction, sex differences in succumbing to temptations and the sex ratio question. After this examination, it will suggest the need for a study in how the societal norm of sexual permissiveness hampers the elusive attraction of “playing hard to get” within the genders.
Introduction
The societal norm of sexual permissiveness hampers the elusive attraction of “playing hard to get” within the genders and supports the study of social psychology. There are not many studies with this situational relationship with this attribution. This literature review considers studies relating to elusive phenomenon and situational effect of sex ratio. Such studies like elusive phenomenon, when does “playing hard to get” incr...
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...io of the population. Overall, I believe this supports that the situational affect of a surplus of women will hamper the elusive attraction of “playing hard to get” within the genders.
Conclusion
These studies reveal the phenomena of “playing hard to get,” the differences in sexual temptations, how sex ratio affects preference for mates and a possible future study relating how the societal norm of sexual permissiveness hampers the elusive attraction of “playing hard to get” within the genders. There are not many studies on how situational environments affect the elusive phenomena of “playing hard to get”. I think based on previous research it will be hypothesized that the situational effect of the societal norm of sexual permissiveness of having a surplus of females within a population will cause males to disregard the elusive phenomenon of “playing hard to get.”
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