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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...
A Risk or an Opportunity? Facial Expressions of Fear in Bargaining
A Risk or an Opportunity? Facial Expressions of Fear in Bargaining
Successful bargaining often depends on our emotional expressions. We test whether a bargainer’s facial expressions o...
A Review of Dimitris Xygalatas’ Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
A Review of Dimitris Xygalatas’ Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
“Ritual pre-dates every single one of the hallmarks of civili...
The Relation of Clade-Specific Biophilia to the Construct of Animality
The Relation of Clade-Specific Biophilia to the Construct of Animality
The main purpose of this study was to examine whether the nonhuman animal affinities described by the proposed psychometri...
Do Cleaner Fish (Labroides dimidiatus) Have General Cognitive Ability? A Reanalysis of Individual Differences Data and Consideration of Phylogenetic Context
Do Cleaner Fish (Labroides dimidiatus) Have General Cognitive Ability? A Reanalysis of Individual Differences Data and Consideration of Phylogenetic Context
Aellen et al. (2022) recently suggested on the basis of principal component analysis (PCA) that there is no general cognit...
Involuntary Singlehood: Investigating the Effects of Sexual Functioning, BMI, and Having Children from Previous Relationships
Involuntary Singlehood: Investigating the Effects of Sexual Functioning, BMI, and Having Children from Previous Relationships
Singlehood that is, not having an intimate partner, constitutes a common state in contemporary post-industrial societies. ...
Levelling as a Female-Biased Competitive Tactic
Levelling as a Female-Biased Competitive Tactic
Direct contests occur more frequently between men than between women. This produces the conclusion that men are more compe...
No Evidence Against the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis: A Commentary on Harrison et al.’s (2022) Meta-Analysis of Animal Personality
No Evidence Against the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis: A Commentary on Harrison et al.’s (2022) Meta-Analysis of Animal Personality
In a recent meta-analysis, Harrison et al. (2022; Biological Reviews, 97, 679–707) set out to test the greater male ...
The Chameleons of Dating: Psychopathic Traits Are Associated with Mimicking Prosocial Personality Traits in Dating Contexts
The Chameleons of Dating: Psychopathic Traits Are Associated with Mimicking Prosocial Personality Traits in Dating Contexts
Psychopathic traits are associated with lower levels of Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, and Agreeableness from the HEXACO ...
Preference for Male Risk Takers Varies with Relationship Context and Health Status but not COVID Risk
Preference for Male Risk Takers Varies with Relationship Context and Health Status but not COVID Risk
Risk taking is more commonly shown by males than females and has a signalling function, serving to advertise one’s i...
Sibling Conflict and Closeness: The Effects of Sex, Number of Siblings, Relatedness, Parental Resemblance and Investment
Sibling Conflict and Closeness: The Effects of Sex, Number of Siblings, Relatedness, Parental Resemblance and Investment
Siblings may be our staunchest supporters as well as our most significant rivals. What factors shape these sibling relatio...
Still No Evidence for a Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy
Still No Evidence for a Jewish Group Evolutionary Strategy
I recently criticized some key tenets of what I called the “anti-Jewish narrative,” particularly as defended b...
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