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The Structure of Child Adoption Based on the Relationship Between Adoptive Parents and Adoptive Children in Finland
The Structure of Child Adoption Based on the Relationship Between Adoptive Parents and Adoptive Children in Finland
Humans, like many other primates, possess the ability to adopt, and the practice of child adoption exists across human soc...
The Adaptive Function of Veiling: How Women Use Religious Veiling to Secure Male Protection
The Adaptive Function of Veiling: How Women Use Religious Veiling to Secure Male Protection
This study explores veiling from an adaptive perspective, examining how the practice may serve women’s interests. Th...
Explaining the Links Between Narcissism and Fertility: Are There Differences Between the Grandiose and Vulnerable Component?
Explaining the Links Between Narcissism and Fertility: Are There Differences Between the Grandiose and Vulnerable Component?
The main goal of the present research was to explore the links between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism and fertility (...
Perception of Tactile Disgust: The Role of Object Characteristics, Sensitivity to Different Disgust Subscales and Fear
Perception of Tactile Disgust: The Role of Object Characteristics, Sensitivity to Different Disgust Subscales and Fear
Disgust plays a significant role in pathogen protection, with research highlighting the distinct contributions of various ...
Does the Conservativeness of Religious Veiling Signal Trust and In-Group Commitment?
Does the Conservativeness of Religious Veiling Signal Trust and In-Group Commitment?
This research explored whether the conservativeness of religious veiling among Muslim women acts as a costly signal of tru...
Behavioral Ecology in Psychology: Making Sense of Many Conceptualizations and Operationalizations of Harshness and Unpredictability
Behavioral Ecology in Psychology: Making Sense of Many Conceptualizations and Operationalizations of Harshness and Unpredictability
Scholars in psychology increasingly apply a behavioral ecology/adaptive calibration framework to understand how childhood ...
Ancestral and Contemporary Influences of Sociopolitical Complexity, Macroeconomic Development, and State Functioning on the Quality of Infrastructure
Ancestral and Contemporary Influences of Sociopolitical Complexity, Macroeconomic Development, and State Functioning on the Quality of Infrastructure
The present study examined the influence of ancestral variation in sociopolitical complexity (stratification and centraliz...
Passively Viewing Social Bonding Cues Decreases Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability
Passively Viewing Social Bonding Cues Decreases Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability
Throughout human evolutionary history, the ability to live in groups represented an adaptive advantage. Thus, humans have ...
Pathogen-Prevalent Auditory Distractions may Differentially Impact Retention of Newly Learned Information
Pathogen-Prevalent Auditory Distractions may Differentially Impact Retention of Newly Learned Information
The behavioral immune system can produce strong perceptual responses to pathogen-prevalent stimuli. This experiment was de...
Associations Between Early Life Stress, Health Behaviors, and Risk-Taking in Adulthood: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Associations Between Early Life Stress, Health Behaviors, and Risk-Taking in Adulthood: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Across various scientific fields, early life stress (ELS) has been associated with more detrimental health behavior, highe...
Who Favor Sweet Actions over Sweet Words More – Females or Males?
Who Favor Sweet Actions over Sweet Words More – Females or Males?
According to the ideal standards model, individuals experience greater satisfaction in relationships when their ideals are...
Fear of Relationship Commitment and Singlehood
Fear of Relationship Commitment and Singlehood
Not having an intimate partner is a common state in contemporary post-industrial societies. One reason that individuals re...
Domino Theory Through the Lens of Human Evolutionary Ecology
Domino Theory Through the Lens of Human Evolutionary Ecology
Domino Theory posits that Communism spreads via emulation or force between nations as a function of geographic ad...
Let Me Take the Risk so You Won’t Have To: An Evolutionary Psychological Analysis of Spontaneous Occurrence of Division of Labor Across 14 Countries
Let Me Take the Risk so You Won’t Have To: An Evolutionary Psychological Analysis of Spontaneous Occurrence of Division of Labor Across 14 Countries
The elimination of various forms of discrimination is often considered to be the way to achieve gender equality in terms o...
From Envy to Radicalization
From Envy to Radicalization
Models of radicalization have typically placed grievances at the heart of radicalization. In contrast, we argue that viewi...
An Integrated General Theory of Psychopathology and Suicide
An Integrated General Theory of Psychopathology and Suicide
This article presents biological meta-theory that is intended to serve as a shared key to progress in psychiatry and suici...
“Good Night, Sleep Tight”: Do we have an “Evolutionary Preference” for Placing Beds in Sleeping Rooms? A Replication and Extension of Spörrle and Stich (2010)
“Good Night, Sleep Tight”: Do we have an “Evolutionary Preference” for Placing Beds in Sleeping Rooms? A Replication and Extension of Spörrle and Stich (2010)
In the distant past, hunter-gatherers had to manage the risk of attacks from other human beings and dangerous animals not ...
Factors that Influence People’s Beliefs About Men’s and Women’s Jealousy Responses
Factors that Influence People’s Beliefs About Men’s and Women’s Jealousy Responses
This study examines what beliefs people hold about other men’s and women’s reaction to infidelity and how rela...
Environmental Harshness and Unpredictability, Parenting, and Offspring Life History
Environmental Harshness and Unpredictability, Parenting, and Offspring Life History
The species-general life history (LH) principle posits that extrinsic morbidity-mortality risks accelerate organisms’...
Congruence Effects on Medicinal Plant Recall: An Evolutionary Perspective
Congruence Effects on Medicinal Plant Recall: An Evolutionary Perspective
Psychological mechanisms evolved in the ancestral past as they helped the first hominids to survive and reproduce. A produ...
The Infidelity Protection Nature of Romantic Jealousy: Testing Five Predictions in the Greek Cultural Context
The Infidelity Protection Nature of Romantic Jealousy: Testing Five Predictions in the Greek Cultural Context
Romantic jealousy can lead to several negative outcomes, such as tensions between intimate partners, domestic violence, an...
The Trivers-Willard Effect for Educational Investment: Evidence from an African Sample
The Trivers-Willard Effect for Educational Investment: Evidence from an African Sample
The Trivers-Willard hypothesis (TWH) states that individuals in good condition favor offspring of the sex that has a highe...
Physical Attractiveness of Potential Competitors Influences Women’s Gossip: Effects of Romantic Jealousy and Self-Esteem
Physical Attractiveness of Potential Competitors Influences Women’s Gossip: Effects of Romantic Jealousy and Self-Esteem
This research investigated whether and how young women used gossip strategies to win opportunities for themselves when fac...
Soft Core Evolutionary Psychology? Potential Evidence Against a Unified Research Program from a Survey of 581 Evolutionarily Informed Scholars
Soft Core Evolutionary Psychology? Potential Evidence Against a Unified Research Program from a Survey of 581 Evolutionarily Informed Scholars
A recent philosophical examination of evolutionary psychology argues that it currently lacks a metatheoretical “hard...
Can Knowing How We Evolved Tell Us How We Should Live? Evolutionary Self-Help as a Genre
Can Knowing How We Evolved Tell Us How We Should Live? Evolutionary Self-Help as a Genre
Boyer, P. (2001). Religion explained: The evolutionary origins of religious thought. Basic Books. Goog...
What Activates the Behavioral Immune System During a Global Pandemic? Testing the Disgust Calibration Hypothesis
What Activates the Behavioral Immune System During a Global Pandemic? Testing the Disgust Calibration Hypothesis
As a key part of the behavioral immune system, disgust is thought to have evolved to motivate the avoidance of pathogens. ...
Functional Heuristics of Disease Transmission from Physical Deformities in Food Preferences
Functional Heuristics of Disease Transmission from Physical Deformities in Food Preferences
Ostensibly serving to restrict contact with disease vectors, humans exhibit aversion toward cues heuristically inferred as...
Cross-Cultural Evidence for the Role of Parenting Costs Limiting Women’s Sexual Unrestrictedness
Cross-Cultural Evidence for the Role of Parenting Costs Limiting Women’s Sexual Unrestrictedness
Humans are not unique among primates (and mammals more broadly) in that males tend to favor sexual unrestrictedness more t...
An Evolutionary Explanation of the Madonna-Whore Complex
An Evolutionary Explanation of the Madonna-Whore Complex
The Madonna-Whore complex is a product of male psychology that constrains female sexuality. Exaggerating actual difference...
Exploring Large Digital Bodies for the Study of Human Behavior
Exploring Large Digital Bodies for the Study of Human Behavior
Internet access has become a fundamental component of contemporary society, with major impacts in many areas that offer op...
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