Social:Resource acquisition ability

Short description: Social psychology concept

Resource acquisition ability (RAA) is a term in social psychology and the sexual opposite of the reproductive value (RV), introducing an unintentional mechanism used by women when selecting a male partner. The RAA is focused on some factors:

• Genetic information
• Wealth
• Salary
• Social status
• Child care
• Personal history (i.e. crime affairs are not good for the RAA)
• Numerous other things

Unlike the reproduction value, the RAA is not a scale. Mainly because of the unindexable factors, this term is a bit more complex than the RV.

See also

• Hypergamy
• Interpersonal attraction

References

• Stewart, Stinnett and Rosenfeld. "Sex Differences in Desired Characteristics of Short-Term and Long-Term Relationship Partners"