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Life History Strategies of Male Criminal Offenders: Verifying Traditional Life History Patterns Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Monika Kwiek, Przemyslaw Piotrowski
Life history (LH) strategies are results of trade-offs that species must make due to inhabiting certain ecological niches. Although it is assumed that, through the process of developmental plasticity, similar trade-offs are made by individuals in response to a certain level of harshness and unpredictability of their local environments, the study results on this matter are not consistent. In LH-oriented
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Alcohol Use and Moffitt's Maturity Gap Thesis for Adolescent Offending: An Evolutionary Perspective and Analysis Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Meghan L. Royle, Eric J. Connolly
While a wealth of research has focused on testing several arguments from Moffitt's developmental taxonomy of antisocial behavior—mainly the presence of life-course-persistent vs. adolescence-limited offending and predictors of each trajectory—much less attention has been devoted to examining how evolutionarily adaptive lifestyle factors common during adolescence may condition the relationship between
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Evolution, the Cognitive Sciences, and the Science of Victimization Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Jamie M. Gajos, Brian B. Boutwell
Despite clear aversion to such labels, one of the most impactful criminological theories is rooted in cognitive science. Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory has been repeatedly tested, replicated relatively well, and has since reached beyond its original scope to explain other important outcomes like victimization. However, the work never viewed itself as part of a larger scientific landscape
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Social Media Friendship Jealousy Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Tracy Vaillancourt, Heather Brittain, Mollie Eriksson, Amanda Krygsman, Ann H. Farrell, Adam C. Davis, Anthony A. Volk, Steven Arnocky
A new measure to assess friendship jealousy in the context of social media was developed. This one-factor, seven-item measure was psychometrically sound, showing evidence of validity and reliability in three samples of North American adults (Study 1, n = 491; Study 2, n = 494; Study 3, n = 415) and one-, two-, and three-year stability (Study 3). Women reported more social media friendship jealousy
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Examining the Sexual Double Standards and Hypocrisy in Partner Suitability Appraisals Within a Norwegian Sample Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Andrew G. Thomas, David M. Buss, Mons Bendixen
Sexual double standards are social norms that impose greater social opprobrium on women versus men or that permit one sex greater sexual freedom than the other. This study examined sexual double st...
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Sperm Competition Risk: The Connections That Partner Attractiveness and Infidelity Risk Have with Mate Retention Behaviors and Semen-Displacing Behaviors Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Gavin Vance, Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Todd K. Shackelford
The present studies investigated the relationships between men's perceived risk of experiencing sperm competition (i.e., when the ejaculates of two or more men simultaneously occupy the reproductiv...
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Sexual Desire of Women With Fast and Slow Life History Throughout the Ovulatory Cycle Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Hui Jing Lu
Findings on female sexual motivation across the ovulatory cycle are mixed. Some studies have reported increased female sexual desire on fertile days or midway through the ovulatory cycle, whereas o...
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Mating Performance and Singlehood Across 14 Nations Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Menelaos Apostolou, Mark Sullman, Béla Birkás, Agata Błachnio, Ekaterina Bushina, Fran Calvo, William Costello, Tanja Dujlovic, Tetiana Hill, Timo Juhani Lajunen, Yanina Lisun, Denisse Manrique-Millones, Oscar Manrique-Pino, Norbert Meskó, Martin Nechtelberger, Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Christian Kenji Ollhoff, Aneta Przepiórka, Ádám Putz, Mariaelena Tagliabue, Burcu Tekeş, Andrew Thomas, Jaroslava Varella
Adult individuals frequently face difficulties in attracting and keeping mates, which is an important driver of singlehood. In the current research, we investigated the mating performance (i.e., ho...
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Predicting Moffitt's Developmental Taxonomy of Antisocial Behavior Using Life History Theory: A Partial Test of the Evolutionary Taxonomy. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Joseph L Nedelec,Francesco DiRienzo
Evolutionary criminology is an approach to the understanding of crime and criminality that is based in part on key aspects of evolutionary psychology. The approach allows for a renewed examination of traditional criminological assumptions and can serve to further enhance theoretical viewpoints on antisocial behavior. The recently developed evolutionary taxonomy theory is an example of such an approach
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Adrenocortical Responses to Daily Stressors Are Calibrated by Early Life Adversity: An Investigation of the Adaptive Calibration Model. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Joseph A Schwartz,Jessica L Calvi,Samantha L Allen,Douglas A Granger
Studies examining the impact of early adversity on physiological responsivity to environmental challenges in later life yield a complex pattern of findings and ambiguity regarding the direction of effect, with some studies reporting heightened responses and others reporting dampened responses. One potential reason for these mixed findings is an oversimplified theoretical model surrounding the connection
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What are Romantic Relationships Good for? An Explorative Analysis of the Perceived Benefits of Being in a Relationship. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Menelaos Apostolou,Christoforos Christoforou,Timo Juhani Lajunen
Forming long-term intimate relationships is a human universal, with most people across different times and cultures doing so. Such relationships should be associated with important benefits otherwise individuals would not engage in them, with the current research aiming to identify what people consider as beneficial in a long-term intimate relationship. More specifically, Study 1 employed qualitative
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Ideological Mate-guarding: Sexual Jealousy and Mating Strategy Predict Support for Female Honor. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Tom R Kupfer,Pelin Gul
Feminine honor dictates that women should cultivate a reputation for sexual purity via behaviors such as dressing modestly and maintaining virginity before marriage. The dominant explanation for people's support for feminine honor is that female infidelity threatens male partners' honor. Beyond this, the literature affords little understanding of the evolutionary and psychological origins of feminine
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The Shame System Operates With High Precision. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Alexie Leroux,Sébastien Hétu,Daniel Sznycer
Previous research indicates that the anticipatory shame an individual feels at the prospect of taking a disgraceful action closely tracks the degree to which local audiences, and even foreign audiences, devalue those individuals who take that action. This supports the proposition that the shame system (a) defends the individual against the threat of being devalued, and (b) balances the competing demands
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Women's Preferences for Masculinity in Male Faces Are Predicted by Material Scarcity, But Not Time or Psychological Scarcity. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Anthony J Lee,Nikita K J McGuire
Facial femininity in men is purportedly used as a cue by women as a signal of parental quality and willingness to provide resources. Accordingly, in contexts where choosing a partner that will provide resources is more beneficial (e.g., when resources are scarce), women have shown an increase preference for facial femininity in male faces. However, domains of scarcity often covary, and it is, therefore
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The Effect of Asymmetric Intersexual Selection Power Perception on the Choice Deferral Behavior of Men and Women. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Cheng-Wen Jin,Rui Chen
Consumers always delay their choices, which can cause companies to suffer tremendous losses. One reason for such delay is a lack of confidence. Confidence in consumer decision-making can stem from many sources, including social power. In this research, we find that selection power with regard to choosing a romantic mate increases consumers' decision confidence and, in turn, decreases choice deferral
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Women's Romantic Jealousy Predicts Risky Appearance Enhancement Effort. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Steven Arnocky,Megan MacKinnon,Sadie Clarke,Grant McPherson,Emily Kapitanchuk
Human appearance enhancement effort has recently been considered from an evolutionary perspective as an adaptive and sexually dimorphic strategy for effective female intrasexual and intersexual competition. Most writing and research on the topic to date has focused on appearance enhancement as a means of mate attraction, with relatively less research examining its role in mate retention. The present
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Attractiveness Differentially Affects Direct Versus Indirect Face Evaluations in Two Cultures. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Brittany S Cassidy,S Adil Saribay,Hüseyin Yüksel,Karel Kleisner
Although decades of research have identified facial features relating to people's evaluations of faces, specific features have largely been examined in isolation from each other. Recent work shows that considering the relative importance of these features in face evaluations is important to test theoretical assumptions of impression formation. Here, we examined how two facial features of evolutionary
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No Support for Two Hypotheses About the Communicative Functions of Displaying Disgust: Evidence From Turkey, Norway, Germany, and Croatia. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Laith Al-Shawaf,David M G Lewis,Maliki E Ghossainy,Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair,Igor Mikloušić,Sascha Schwarz,Kaitlyn P White
In recent years, researchers have discovered much about how disgust works, its neural basis, its relationship with immune function, its connection with mating, and some of its antecedents and consequents. Despite these advances in our understanding, an under-explored area is how disgust may be used to serve a communicative function, including how individuals might strategically downplay or exaggerate
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No Signs of Inclusive Fitness or Reciprocal Altruism in Advantageous Inequity Aversion. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Jan Antfolk,Emmie Marklund,Irene Nylund,Annika Gunst
Advantageous inequity aversion (i.e., the tendency to respond negatively to unfairness that benefits oneself) usually develops in 6-8-year-olds. However, little is known about the selection pressures that might have shaped this phenomenon. Using data collected from 120 4-8-year-old Finnish children, we tested two evolutionary explanations for the development of advantageous inequity aversion: reciprocal
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I Want Our Relationship to Last: Strategies That People Employ in Order to Improve Their Intimate Relationships Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Menelaos Apostolou, Maria Argyridou, Eirini Evaggelia Nikoloudi, Timo Juhani Lajunen
Intimate relationships are not always easy to keep. Accordingly, the current research has attempted to identify the strategies that people employ in order to improve their relationships with their ...
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Fitness Costs of Insecure Romantic Attachment: The Role of Reproductive Motivation and Long-Term Mating Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Janko Međedović, Ana Anđelković, Jovana Lukić
Attachment styles are frequently viewed from within the evolutionary conceptual framework; however, their associations with evolutionary fitness are very rarely empirically explored. In the present...
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Parental Income and the Sexual Behavior of Their Adult Children: A Trivers–Willard Perspective Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 John T. Manning, Bernhard Fink, Robert Trivers
Parental income is negatively and linearly related to the digit ratio (2D:4D; a proxy for prenatal sex steroids) of their children. Children of parents with high income are thought to be exposed to...
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Do Environmental Cues to Discovery Influence the Likelihood to Rape? Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Rebecka K. Hahnel-Peeters, Aaron T. Goetz, Cari D. Goetz
Research on men's sexual exploitation of women has documented that men's psychology tracks cues associated with the ease of women's exploitability. In the current studies, we examined a different c...
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Prestige Orientation and Reconciliation in the Workplace Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Kazuho Yamaura
Human social hierarchies comprise two distinct bases of status: dominance and prestige. One can acquire high social status not only by physically intimidating others (dominance) but also by providi...
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Being Negatively Cued, are People Less Cooperative? The Influence of Watching Eyes on Cooperative Behavior Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Xiaoming Wang, Qinying Zhao, Xiulin Bao, Yaru Wang, Xiuxin Wang
In the course of human evolution, watching eyes have had an important influence on individual cooperative behavior. However, researchers have not explored how the valence of watching eyes affects c...
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Behavioral Acts That Negatively Affect Relationships’ Prospects Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Menelaos Apostolou
Intimate relationships are not easy to keep as the high rates of divorce and singlehood testify. The current research aimed to examine the behavioral acts which are likely to have a negative effect...
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Intentions to Steal and the Commitment Problem. The Role of Moral Emotions and Self-Serving Justifications Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Ann De Buck, Lieven J. R. Pauwels
This study focuses on determinants underlying young persons” self-reported intentions to steal a small amount of money. From an evolutionary standpoint, theft is a frequency-dependent strategy that...
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Predicting Altruistic Behaviour by the Benefactor-Beneficiary Relationship Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Jack A. Palmer, Linda K. Palmer
The evolution of altruism—costly behaviour by an individual (the benefactor) that benefits another individual (the beneficiary)—has been theorized as a function of kinship, reciprocity potential, s...
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Evolutionary Perspective on Self-Concept: The Effects of Interpersonal Motivations and Inclusionary Status on Spontaneous Self-Descriptions of Communion and Agency Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Roy Azoulay, Moran Wilner-Sakal, Reut Tzabag, Eva Gilboa-Schechtman
Evolutionary models suggest that self-concept is a dynamic structure shaped jointly by interpersonal motivations and social challenges. Yet, empirical data assessing this claim are sparse. We exami...
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Le Petit Machiavellian Prince: Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Political Beliefs and Values Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Robin Kopecky, Lenka Příplatová, Silvia Boschetti, Konrad Talmont-Kaminski, Jaroslav Flegr
Humans infected by Toxoplasma gondii express no specific symptoms but manifest higher incidence of many diseases, disorders and differences in personality and behavior. The aim of this study was to...
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Attachment Security Priming Affecting Mating Strategies Endorsement among College Students Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Maximiliane Uhlich, Omri Gillath, Dory A. Schachner, Phillip R. Shaver
Exposure to environmental cues reflecting potential threats to future survivability is associated with a stronger endorsement of short-term mating strategies. Less is known, however, about the effe...
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Individual's Reproductive Strategies Moderates the Association Between Facial Width-to-Height and Risk-Taking Propensity Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Fabiane de Barros Figueirêdo Cavalcante, Marcelo Vinhal Nepomuceno, Danielle Miranda de Oliveira Arruda Gomes, Samuel Façanha Câmara
Previous research has yielded mixed findings on the relationship between facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR), an androgen-dependent feature, and risk-taking propensity. We argue that mixed findings...
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Mental Representations of Sickness Positively Relate to Adaptive Health Behaviors Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Jonathan T. Ojeda, Paul J. Silvia, Brittany S. Cassidy
An ecological approach to social perception states that impressions of faces have functional value in that they guide adaptive behavior ensuring people's survival. For example, people may avoid oth...
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Retrospective Self-Reported Childhood Experiences in Enriched Environments Uniquely Predict Prosocial Behavior and Personality Traits in Adulthood Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Thomas G. McCauley, Michael E. McCullough
What features of people’s childhood environments go on to shape their prosocial behavior during adulthood? Past studies linking childhood environment to adult prosocial behavior have focused primar...
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COVID-19 and Memory: A Novel Contamination Effect in Memory Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Gaëtan Thiebaut, Alain Méot, Arnaud Witt, Pavol Prokop, Patrick Bonin
The Behavioral Immune System (BIS, Schaller & Park, 2011) is a defense system whose function is to protect against pathogen exposure. Memory is an important component of this system (Fernandes et a...
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Sex Differences in Competitiveness in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Robert O. Deaner, Lucretia C. Dunlap, April Bleske-Rechek
Sex differences in the use of competitive tactics have been well established. Although many factors may contribute to these sex differences, according to social role theory (SRT), stereotypes and e...
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Perceived Effectiveness of Flirtation Tactics: The Effects of sex, Mating Context and Individual Differences in US and Norwegian Samples. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair,T Joel Wade,Miriam Tekeste Tallaksen,Trond Viggo Grøntvedt,Andrea M Kessler,Rebecca L Burch,Mons Bendixen
Flirting involves various signals communicated between individuals. To attract potential mates, men and women exhibit flirtatious behavior to get the attention of, and potentially elicit sexual or romantic interest from, a desired partner. In this first large, preregistered study of judgement of the effectiveness of flirtation tactics based on Sexual Strategies Theory, we considered the effects of
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Perceived Effectiveness of Flirtation Tactics: The Effects of sex, Mating Context and Individual Differences in US and Norwegian Samples Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, T. Joel Wade, Miriam Tekeste Tallaksen, Trond Viggo Grøntvedt, Andrea M. Kessler, Rebecca L. Burch, Mons Bendixen
Flirting involves various signals communicated between individuals. To attract potential mates, men and women exhibit flirtatious behavior to get the attention of, and potentially elicit sexual or romantic interest from, a desired partner. In this first large, preregistered study of judgement of the effectiveness of flirtation tactics based on Sexual Strategies Theory, we considered the effects of
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Evolutionary history Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Ian Morris
Few academic historians take an evolutionary perspective on the past, but this outcome was not inevitable. Leading eighteenth-century intellectuals often took evolutionary perspectives, but particularists largely discredited them in and after the 1780s. By the time Spencer and Darwin revived evolutionism in the 1850s, distinctive historical questions and methods were very well-established. Public intellectuals
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The Effect of Female Orgasm Frequency on Female Mate Selection: A Test of Two Hypotheses. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Patrick J Nebl,Anne K Gordon
Female orgasm has been a mystery that psychologists have been attempting to understand for decades. Many have contended that female orgasm is a functionless by-product of male orgasm, while others have argued that female orgasm may be an adaptation in its own right, offering several adaptationist accounts of female orgasm. In the current research, we tested predictions derived from two hypotheses regarding
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The Effect of Female Orgasm Frequency on Female Mate Selection: A Test of Two Hypotheses Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Patrick J. Nebl, Anne K. Gordon
Female orgasm has been a mystery that psychologists have been attempting to understand for decades. Many have contended that female orgasm is a functionless by-product of male orgasm, while others have argued that female orgasm may be an adaptation in its own right, offering several adaptationist accounts of female orgasm. In the current research, we tested predictions derived from two hypotheses regarding
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Is History the Same as Evolution? No. Is it Independent of Evolution? Certainly Not. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Melvin Konner
History is full of violence and oppression within and between groups, and although group conflicts enhance within-group cooperation (mediated by oxytocin, which promotes parochial altruism) the hierarchy within groups ensures that spoils accrue very unevenly. Darwin suggested, and we now know, that sexual selection is as powerful as selection by mortality, and the main purpose of survival is reproduction
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Is History the Same as Evolution? No. Is it Independent of Evolution? Certainly Not Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Melvin Konner
History is full of violence and oppression within and between groups, and although group conflicts enhance within-group cooperation (mediated by oxytocin, which promotes parochial altruism) the hierarchy within groups ensures that spoils accrue very unevenly. Darwin suggested, and we now know, that sexual selection is as powerful as selection by mortality, and the main purpose of survival is reproduction
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Perception of Emergent Leaders' Faces and Evolution of Social Cheating: Cross-Cultural Experiments. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Victoria V Rostovtseva,Anna A Mezentseva,Marina L Butovskaya
The aim of the present study was to investigate whether neutral faces of individuals with different propensities for leadership may convey information about their personal qualities, and are there impacts of sex, population and social environment on the facial perception. This study is based on a previous experiment ( Rostovtseva et al., 2022), where emergent leadership in the context of male group
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Behavioral Responses to Familiar Versus Unfamiliar Older People as a Source of Disgust. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Quan Cao,Jian Sun,Ming Peng,Bin-Bin Chen
Disgust, as a part of the behavioral immune system, leads people to avoid behaviors of pathogens so as to reduce the probability of infection. Disgust also shows the source effects based on familiarity. However, these source effects have not been tested on the older population. Thus, we tested the source effects of emotional and behavioral reactions from the disgust toward older adults and the possible
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Behavioral Responses to Familiar Versus Unfamiliar Older People as a Source of Disgust Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Quan Cao, Jian Sun, Ming Peng, Bin-Bin Chen
Disgust, as a part of the behavioral immune system, leads people to avoid behaviors of pathogens so as to reduce the probability of infection. Disgust also shows the source effects based on familiarity. However, these source effects have not been tested on the older population. Thus, we tested the source effects of emotional and behavioral reactions from the disgust toward older adults and the possible
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Perception of Emergent Leaders’ Faces and Evolution of Social Cheating: Cross-Cultural Experiments Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Victoria V. Rostovtseva, Anna A. Mezentseva, Marina L. Butovskaya
The aim of the present study was to investigate whether neutral faces of individuals with different propensities for leadership may convey information about their personal qualities, and are there impacts of sex, population and social environment on the facial perception. This study is based on a previous experiment ( Rostovtseva et al., 2022), where emergent leadership in the context of male group
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Longitudinal Associations Between Primary and Secondary Psychopathic Traits, Delinquency, and Current Dating Status in Adolescence. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Adam C Davis,Heather Brittain,Steven Arnocky,Tracy Vaillancourt
Many have examined the desirability and mate competition tactics of adults higher on psychopathy using cross-sectional data, but few have studied the longitudinal associations between the lower-order factors of psychopathy (e.g., primary and secondary psychopathy) with indices of mating behavior in adolescents. More work is also needed to unravel how psychopathic youth outcompete rivals for mates.
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Moderators of Sexual Interest in Opposite-sex Friends. Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Aleksandra Szymkow,Natalia Frankowska
The fact that men and women experience sexual attraction toward their opposite-sex friends has been evidenced in various studies. It has also been shown that there is a close parallel between preferences for opposite-sex friends and mate preferences, i.e., that men prioritize physical attractiveness of their OSFs, while women prioritize their male friends' ability to provide protection and economic
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Longitudinal Associations Between Primary and Secondary Psychopathic Traits, Delinquency, and Current Dating Status in Adolescence Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Adam C. Davis, Heather Brittain, Steven Arnocky, Tracy Vaillancourt
Many have examined the desirability and mate competition tactics of adults higher on psychopathy using cross-sectional data, but few have studied the longitudinal associations between the lower-order factors of psychopathy (e.g., primary and secondary psychopathy) with indices of mating behavior in adolescents. More work is also needed to unravel how psychopathic youth outcompete rivals for mates.
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Moderators of Sexual Interest in Opposite-sex Friends Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Aleksandra Szymkow, Natalia Frankowska
The fact that men and women experience sexual attraction toward their opposite-sex friends has been evidenced in various studies. It has also been shown that there is a close parallel between preferences for opposite-sex friends and mate preferences, i.e., that men prioritize physical attractiveness of their OSFs, while women prioritize their male friends’ ability to provide protection and economic
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History and Biology Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Robert Trivers
This is a brief history of my intellectual life from age 13 to 29 years—and beyond. It encompasses mathematics, US history, and evolutionary biology, especially social theory based on natural selection.
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Tempo and Mode in Cultural Macroevolution Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Peter Turchin, Sergey Gavrilets
Evolutionary scientists studying social and cultural evolution have proposed a multitude of mechanisms by which cultural change can be effected. In this article we discuss two influential ideas from the theory of biological evolution that can inform this debate: the contrast between the micro- and macro-evolution, and the distinction between the tempo and mode of evolution. We add the empirical depth
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A Note on Religion Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Laura Betzig
At the beginning of our era, after a battle on the Ionian Sea, Antony and Cleopatra took their own lives in Egypt, and Augustus was made an imperator by his senators. Roman emperors had sexual access to those senators’ daughters and wives, and to thousands of slaves. But they ran governments with help from their cubicularii, castrated civil servants. And they enforced an Imperial Cult: subjects made
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Fitness and Power: The Contribution of Genetics to the History of Differential Reproduction Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Walter Scheidel
Textual evidence from pre-modern societies supports the prediction that status differences among men translate to variance in reproductive success. In recent years, analysis of genetic data has opened up new ways of studying this relationship. By investigating cases that range over several millennia, these analyses repeatedly document the replacement of local men by newcomers and reveal instances of
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“Touch Me If You Can!”: Individual Differences in Disease Avoidance and Social Touch Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Gaëtan Thiebaut, Alain Méot, Arnaud Witt, Pavol Prokop, Patrick Bonin
The threat of diseases varies considerably among individuals, and it has been found to be linked to various proactive or reactive behaviors. In the present studies, we investigated the impact of individual differences in the perceived vulnerability to disease (PVD) on social touch before (Study 1) or during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (Study 2). We also investigated the influence
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Cues of Social Status: Associations Between Attractiveness, Dominance, and Status Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Danny Rahal, Melissa R. Fales, Martie G. Haselton, George M. Slavich, Theodore F. Robles
Hierarchies naturally emerge in social species, and judgments of status in these hierarchies have consequences for social relationships and health. Although judgments of social status are shaped by appearance, the physical cues that inform judgments of status remain unclear. The transition to college presents an opportunity to examine judgments of social status in a newly developing social hierarchy
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Phenotypic Signals of Sexual Selection and Fast Life History Dynamics for the Long-Term but Not Short-Term Mating Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Janko Međedović
Mating patterns are crucial for understanding selection regimes in current populations and highly implicative for sexual selection and life history theory. However, empirical data on the relations between mating and reproductive outcomes in contemporary humans are lacking. In the present research we examined the sexual selection on mating (with an emphasis on Bateman's third parameter – the association
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Gender Differences in a Risk-Reduction Model of Sharing Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Stephanie T. Jimenez, Matthew Bambino, David Nathaniel
The current experimental study investigated human sharing within a laboratory task that modeled environmental variability. In particular, it sought to assess the efficacy of a risk-reduction model of sharing, which originated from a risk-sensitive optimization model known as the energy-budget rule. Participants were given the choice between working alone or cooperating and sharing accumulated hypothetical
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The Mother–Offspring Conflict: The Association Between Maternal Sleep, Postpartum Depression, and Interbirth Interval Length Evolutionary Psychology (IF 1.738) Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Annika Gunst, Elin Sjöström, My Sundén, Jan Antfolk
To test the hypothesis that infant night waking is an adaptation to increase interbirth intervals (IBIs) (i.e., the time between a mother’s consecutive births) by exhausting the mother, we made an initial attempt at investigating whether maternal sleep disturbance is associated with longer IBIs. We also explored whether postpartum depression symptoms mediated the association between maternal sleep