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Inevitable or Preventable? The Biosocial Theory of Wartime Rape Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Gavin S. Vance, Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Jennifer Vonk, Todd K. Shackelford
Sexual violence has likely been a feature of warfare throughout human history and may even have been present during prehistoric conflicts. In recent decades, international policymakers have improved efforts to prohibit and prosecute wartime sexual violence, including holding criminal tribunals for suspected perpetrators of wartime rape. Social scientists have offered a range of potential explanations
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The Signaling Function of Vaccine Status and Masking in Evaluations of Online Dating Profiles Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Zach Buckner, Mitch Brown, August Namuth, Donald F. Sacco
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Towards a Unified Account of Aberrant Salience in Psychosis: Proximate and Evolutionary Mechanisms Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-02-14
Abstract The “Aberrant Salience Hypothesis” (ASH) is arguably the pre-eminent proximate, theoretical model of psychosis in the current literature. As well as its consilience with phenomenological accounts, since its initial proposal, subsequent neuroscientific work has updated its empirical basis by demonstrating a functionally distinct large-scale brain network known as the “salience network” (SN)
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Why All Evolutionary Psychological Theories Must be Tested in WEIRD Societies Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Satoshi Kanazawa
Henrich et al. (Behavioral and Brain Science 33:61–135, 2010), with their call to increase the number of samples from non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) societies, represented a major roadblock in the steady progress of the science of evolutionary psychology and caused a significant detour. Whatever merit Henrich et al.’s (Behavioral and Brain Science 33:61–135, 2010)
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Fear of Relationship Commitment and Singlehood Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Menelaos Apostolou, Burcu Tekeş
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From Envy to Radicalization Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Michael Moncrieff, Pierre Lienard
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Factors that Influence People’s Beliefs About Men’s and Women’s Jealousy Responses Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Mons Bendixen, Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair
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“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) Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Patrick Bonin, Gaëtan Thiebaut, André Didierjean, Jana Fančovičová, Natália Kubjatková, Pavol Prokop, Alain Méot
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An Integrated General Theory of Psychopathology and Suicide Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-11-02 C. A. Soper
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Environmental Harshness and Unpredictability, Parenting, and Offspring Life History Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-10-26 An Ting Yang, Hui Jing Lu, Lei Chang
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Congruence Effects on Medicinal Plant Recall: An Evolutionary Perspective Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Joelson Moreno Brito Moura, Edwine Soares Oliveira, Risoneide Henriques da Silva, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Taline Cristina da Silva, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
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The Infidelity Protection Nature of Romantic Jealousy: Testing Five Predictions in the Greek Cultural Context Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Menelaos Apostolou, Georgia Tzannetatou
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The Trivers-Willard Effect for Educational Investment: Evidence from an African Sample Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Matthias Borgstede, Annette Scheunpflug
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Physical Attractiveness of Potential Competitors Influences Women’s Gossip: Effects of Romantic Jealousy and Self-Esteem Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Yijia Dong, Wenqi Li, Yu Kou
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Soft Core Evolutionary Psychology? Potential Evidence Against a Unified Research Program from a Survey of 581 Evolutionarily Informed Scholars Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Michael A. Woodley of Menie, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Matthew A. Sarraf, Daniel J. Kruger, Catherine Salmon
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Can Knowing How We Evolved Tell Us How We Should Live? Evolutionary Self-Help as a Genre Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Marc Hye-Knudsen
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What Activates the Behavioral Immune System During a Global Pandemic? Testing the Disgust Calibration Hypothesis Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Benjamin J. Mitchell, Jennifer M. Taber, Clarissa A. Thompson, Pooja G. Sidney, Nathan S. Consedine, Karin G. Coifman
As a key part of the behavioral immune system, disgust is thought to have evolved to motivate the avoidance of pathogens. While evidence for such a role is accruing, naturalistic tests of this thesis are few and exactly how risk is implicated remains unclear. Two pre-registered studies tested whether objective or perceived risk for Covid-19 predicted daily reports of disgust in the first year of the
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Functional Heuristics of Disease Transmission from Physical Deformities in Food Preferences Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Mitch Brown, Susan M. Brown
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Cross-Cultural Evidence for the Role of Parenting Costs Limiting Women’s Sexual Unrestrictedness Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Angela G. Pirlott, Matthew M. Foley
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Exploring Large Digital Bodies for the Study of Human Behavior Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Anibal Silva Cantalice, Edwine Soares Oliveira, Joelson Moreno Brito de Moura, Rayane Karoline Silva dos Santos, Risoneide Henriques da Silva, Valdir Moura Brito-Júnior, Washington Soares Ferreira-Júnior
Internet access has become a fundamental component of contemporary society, with major impacts in many areas that offer opportunities for new research insights. The search and deposition of information in digital media form large sets of data known as digital corpora, which can be used to generate structured data, representing repositories of knowledge and evidence of human culture. This information
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An Evolutionary Explanation of the Madonna-Whore Complex Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Steven Hertler, Mateo Perñaherrera-Aguirre, Aurelio José Figueredo
The Madonna-Whore complex is a product of male psychology that constrains female sexuality. Exaggerating actual differences, males categorize females as chaste “Madonnas” or promiscuous “whores.” This complex is a form of sexual dissociation according to Freudian dogma, proceeds from power imbalances according to feminist theory, and is a Western cultural feature of patriarchal oppression as per postmodern
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A Risk or an Opportunity? Facial Expressions of Fear in Bargaining Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Lawrence Ian Reed, Malak Enayetallah, Peter DeScioli
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The Relation of Clade-Specific Biophilia to the Construct of Animality Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Catherine Salmon, Netzin Gerald Steklis
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Do Cleaner Fish (Labroides dimidiatus) Have General Cognitive Ability? A Reanalysis of Individual Differences Data and Consideration of Phylogenetic Context Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Michael A. Woodley of Menie, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Matthew A. Sarraf
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Involuntary Singlehood: Investigating the Effects of Sexual Functioning, BMI, and Having Children from Previous Relationships Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Menelaos Apostolou, Andrea Hadjikyriacou
Singlehood that is, not having an intimate partner, constitutes a common state in contemporary post-industrial societies. The current research aimed to identify some of the factors that make people more likely to be involuntarily single, meaning that they want to be in an intimate relationship but they face difficulties in attracting a partner. More specifically, we investigated the effects of sexual
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No Evidence Against the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis: A Commentary on Harrison et al.’s (2022) Meta-Analysis of Animal Personality Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Marco Del Giudice, Steven W. Gangestad
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Levelling as a Female-Biased Competitive Tactic Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Joyce F. Benenson, Henry Markovits
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Preference for Male Risk Takers Varies with Relationship Context and Health Status but not COVID Risk Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Cyril C. Grueter, Hannah Goodman, Nicolas Fay, Bradley Walker, David Coall
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The Chameleons of Dating: Psychopathic Traits Are Associated with Mimicking Prosocial Personality Traits in Dating Contexts Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Kristopher J. Brazil, Destiny Cloutier, Nicole De Las Llagas, Samantha Grace McMahon, Victoria Benevides, Angela S. Book, Beth A. Visser
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Still No Evidence for a Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Nathan Cofnas
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Sibling Conflict and Closeness: The Effects of Sex, Number of Siblings, Relatedness, Parental Resemblance and Investment Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Jessica A. Hehman, Rebecca L. Burch, Catherine A. Salmon
Siblings may be our staunchest supporters as well as our most significant rivals. What factors shape these sibling relationships into ones of conflict versus closeness? Are conflict and closeness shaped by the same factors, occupying opposite ends of the same spectrum? Or are conflict and closeness independent of each other, being shaped by different factors? The current study examined conflict and
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National Mean IQ Estimates: Validity, Data Quality, and Recommendations Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Russell T. Warne
Estimates of mean IQ scores for different nations have engendered controversy since their first publication in 2002. While some researchers have used these mean scores to identify relationships between the scores and other national-level variables (e.g., economic and health variables) or test theories, others have argued that the scores are without merit and that any study using them is inherently
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Responses to COVID-19 Threats: an Evolutionary Psychological Analysis Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Stephen M. Colarelli, Tyler J. Mirando, Kyunghee Han, Norman P. Li, Carter Vespi, Katherine A. Klein, Charles P. Fales
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Men’s Expectations for Postconflict Reconciliation with Physically Strong Opponents Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Mitch Brown, Ryan E. Tracy, Patrick R. Neiswender
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In the Heat of the Short-Term Moment: Evidence that Heightened Sexual Arousal Increases Short-Term Mating Motivation Among Men Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Arnaud Wisman, Andrew G. Thomas
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Resource Scarcity Predicts Women’s Intrasexual Competition: The Role of Trait and State Envy Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Steven Arnocky, Adam C. Davis, Tracy Vaillancourt
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She’s a Gold-Digger, Bad Mom, and Drug-Using Floozy: Women’s Rivalry Gets “Dirty” Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Maryanne L. Fisher, Mackenzie Zinck, Jaedan Link, Jessica Savoie, Arianna Conrod
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Pseudo-Contamination and Memory: Is There a Memory Advantage for Objects Touched by “Morphologically Deviant People”? Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Gaëtan Thiebaut, Alain Méot, Arnaud Witt, Pavol Prokop, Patrick Bonin
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Indirect Intergroup Bargaining: An Evolutionary Psychological Theory of Microaggression Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Miriam Lindner, Max Krasnow
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Exploring the Influence of Race in Mate Copying Using Former Partner Evaluations Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Joseph Zhang, Ryan C. Anderson
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What Makes Single Life Attractive: an Explorative Examination of the Advantages of Singlehood Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Menelaos Apostolou, Chistoforos Christoforou
Many people do not have an intimate partner, one reason being that they prefer to be single. The current research aimed to address the question what makes single life appealing, that is, to identify the possible advantages of being single. More specifically, Study 1 employed open-ended questionnaires on a sample of 269 Greek-speaking participants, and identified 84 such advantages. By using quantitative
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Examining Associations Between Participant Gender, Desired Partner Gender, and Views Toward Sexually Coercive Behaviors Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Danielle J. DelPriore
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Levels of Well-Being Among Men Who Are Incel (Involuntarily Celibate) Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-09-12 William Costello, Vania Rolon, Andrew G. Thomas, David Schmitt
Incels (involuntary celibates) are a subculture community of men who build their identity around their perceived inability to form sexual or romantic relationships. To address the dearth of primary data collected from incels, this study compared a sample (n = 151) of self-identified male incels with similarly aged non-incel males (n = 378) across a range of measures related to mental well-being. We
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Adaptive Solutions to the Problem of Vulnerability During Sleep Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Lawrence J. Wichlinski
Sleep is a behavioral state whose quantity and quality represent a trade-off between the costs and benefits this state provides versus the costs and benefits of wakefulness. Like many species, we humans are particularly vulnerable during sleep because of our reduced ability to monitor the external environment for nighttime predators and other environmental dangers. A number of variations in sleep characteristics
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State Mindfulness Increases Utilitarian Decision Making but Not at the Expense of Inclusive Fitness Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Carey J. Fitzgerald, Jody A. Thompson, Brittany Lorentz
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Macrohistorical and Evolutionary Dynamics of Between-Group Competition, Sociopolitical Complexity, and Differentiation-Integration Effects Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Aurelio José Figueredo, JohnMichael Jurgensen, Michael Anthony Woodley of Menie, Steven C. Hertler
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Of Germs and Culture; Parasite Stress as the Origin of Individualism-Collectivism Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Soheil Shapouri
Among four proposed origins of individualism-collectivism, modernization theory, rice versus wheat theory, climato-economic theory, and pathogen stress theory, the latter has gained more attention in cross-cultural and evolutionary psychology. Since the parasite stress theory of values and sociality makes a connection between infectious diseases and cultural orientations, it gained even more popularity
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Discounting for Money, Food, and Sex, over the Menstrual Cycle Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Benjamin T. Vincent, Mariola Sztwiertnia, Rebecca Koomen, Jasmine G. Warren
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National Gender Equality and AR CAG Repeats Among Resident Males Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Lee Ellis, Anthony W. Hoskin
Cellular sensitivity to testosterone is influenced by a gene located on the X chromosome called the androgen receptor gene (AR gene). Because males have just one X chromosome, whereas females have two, the functionality of the androgen receptor gene can be more precisely assessed in males. Male AR genes vary in terms of what is known as CAG repeats. The greater the number of repeats a male has, the
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Intrasexual Competitiveness Mediates the Link Between Unrestricted Sociosexuality and Indirect Aggression Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Adam C. Davis, Graham Albert, Steven Arnocky
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Friendship Preferences: Examining Desirable and Undesirable Traits in a Friend Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Menelaos Apostolou, Panagiota Vetsa
Friendship constitutes a human universal, with people across different times and places forming friendly relationships. Yet, people are selective in whom they befriend. The current research aimed to identify friendship preferences, that is, the traits that people find desirable or undesirable in a friend. More specifically, Study 1 employed open-ended questionnaires and identified 50 traits that participants
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Will Intelligent Latter-day Saints and Smart Conservatives Inherit the Earth? Differential Selection for Intelligence in the USA Based on Religiosity and Conservatism Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Emil Kirkegaard, Edward Dutton
There is solid evidence that human populations have been selecting against intelligence-related genetic variants since the mid to late 1800s. The selection is generally weak, but varies by ethnic group and sex. Since religious teachings usually include strong pro-natalist components, we investigated whether this might also affect the selection for intelligence among different religious groups. We found
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The Rise of Reciprocal Altruism–a Theory Based on the Centipede Game with Trivers-Payoffs Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-05-28 Matti Vuorensyrjä
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Previous Experiences and Regularity of Occurrence in Evolutionary Time Affect the Recall of Ancestral and Modern Diseases Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Risoneide Henriques Silva, Joelson Moreno Brito Moura, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, André Luiz Borba Nascimento, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
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Call Me Daddy: How Long-term Desirability Is Influenced by Intention for Fatherhood Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Ryan C. Anderson, Michele K. Surbey
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Darwinian Grandparenting Redux: a Pre-registered Replication and Extension Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Samuel Pearson, William von Hippel
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Resemblance Reporting on Children: Sisters Are More Proactive than Brothers Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Guro Lovise Hole Fisktjønmo, Bård-Jørgen Bårdsen, Ivar Folstad
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The Behavioral Immune System and Intergroup Bias: Evidence for Asian-Specific Bias at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Anastasia Makhanova
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The Adapa Tablets and the Tuxtla Glyphs: Coevolution Between Human and Nonhuman Animals Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Aurelio José Figueredo, Netzin Gerald Steklis, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, Heitor Barcellos Ferreira Fernandes, Tomás Cabeza de Baca, Catherine Salmon, María Gabriela Hernández-Chaves, Siu Fong Acón Araya, Marisol Pérez-Ramos, Martha Frías-Armenta, Víctor Corral-Verdugo, Juan Ignacio Aragonés, Verónica Sevillano