(Field Project) Looking for Love Note that while this is a field project, the da

(Field Project) Looking for Love
Note that while this is a field project, the data will be provided for you. Your report must follow the guidelines outlined in the Assignment Requirements and Procedures information. which is APA7 formating completed in about 5 pages of double-spaced writing, not including title pages, reference pages, and appendices.
In this assignment, you will use personal advertisements as data to test hypotheses about the strategies people use to select mates, as discussed in Chapter 7 of Branscombe and Baron, and Reading 30 in Readings about the Social Animal. For example, test predictions based on evolutionary theory about sex differences in mate choice criteria.
Step 1—Do Background Reading and Write Your Introduction
Review the sections of Unit 4, including Chapter 7 of Branscombe and Baron and Reading 30 in Readings about the social animal. Make notes as you read. Then, expand these notes into an introduction to mate selection from an evolutionary perspective. Note that while the textbook focuses on heterosexual relationships, you are not restricted to examining heterosexual relationships in your assignment. If you wish to use non-heterosexual relationships as your data (non-heterosexual relationships are sometimes referred to as LGBTQ+ relationships which encompass lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other non-heterosexual relationships) you may wish to read beyond the hypotheses about mate selection discussed in the textbook. A PsycINFO search using the search terms “human mate selection” and “sexual orientation” will result in several useful articles.
An article that is relevant to heterosexual mate selection is the cover story from the August 15, 1994, edition of Time magazine: “Our Cheating Hearts” by Robert Wright (Time, 144 [7], pp. 29–36). It includes a discussion of the evolutionary psychology of mate selection.
In your Introduction, you should discuss theory of mate selection in general, and then explain how it applies to your study, and what predictions you will test.
Step 2—Gather Your Data
Appendix 2 attached at the bottom of this section contains a set of personal ads. These are ads for people seeking heterosexual partnerships in New York City in the 1990s.
Your task in this project is to analyze the data to see if they support your hypotheses.
Step 3—Write up Your Method
Describe exactly how you conducted your research. Follow the guidelines for writing field reports described in these Assignments.
Step 4—Write up and Discuss Your Results
Express your data in quantitative terms: for example, 37 per cent of the men and 23 per cent of the women specified the ages they were seeking; 21 per cent of the men and 13 per cent of the women specified their own ages; average ages were X and Y years for male and female advertisers, P and Q years respectively for ideal partners, and so forth. For the most part, you should be summarizing your data in a descriptive way – for example, reporting averages, rather than individual results for specific participants. Present your results in easy-to-read tables.
Then discuss all the hypotheses you tested and the results of these tests. You do not have to perform any statistical analyses other than calculating percentages.
Relate your results to the theory you discussed in your introduction. Were your predictions supported or not, and how do you know? What were the limitations in your research?
Step 5—List Your References
Create a reference list of any sources you cited in your report.
Step 6—Write Your Abstract
Write a brief summary, or abstract, of the main sections of your report and place it at the beginning of your report, after the title page. Your abstract should contain no more than 150 words.