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Lecture 14 - What Motivates Us: Sex

Presents a 2007 course discussion of evolutionary explanations and psychological studies concerning attraction, sex, gender differences and sexual orientation.

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Useful as historical material for examining how hypotheses about motivation are framed and how they would need testing today.

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