Resource acquisition ability

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Resource acquisition ability (RAA) is a term in social psychology and the sexual opposite of the reproductive value, introducing an unintentional mechanism used by women when selecting a male partner. Unlike the reproduction value, the RAA is focused less on genetic information but more on social and cultural factors, like:

• salary
• social stability
• 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.

[edit] References

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