Love as a Commitment Device  : Evidence from a Cross-Cultural Study across 90 Countries.

IF 2.2 2区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-27 DOI:10.1007/s12110-024-09482-6
Marta Kowal, Adam Bode, Karolina Koszałkowska, S Craig Roberts, Biljana Gjoneska, David Frederick, Anna Studzinska, Dmitrii Dubrov, Dmitry Grigoryev, Toivo Aavik, Pavol Prokop, Caterina Grano, Hakan Çetinkaya, Derya Atamtürk Duyar, Roberto Baiocco, Carlota Batres, Yakhlef Belkacem, Merve Boğa, Nana Burduli, Ali R Can, Razieh Chegeni, William J Chopik, Yahya Don, Seda Dural, Izzet Duyar, Edgardo Etchezahar, Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Tomasz Frackowiak, Felipe E García, Talia Gomez Yepes, Farida Guemaz, Brahim B Hamdaoui, Mehmet Koyuncu, Miguel Landa-Blanco, Samuel Lins, Tiago Marot, Marlon Mayorga-Lascano, Moises Mebarak, Mara Morelli, Izuchukwu L G Ndukaihe, Mohd Sofian Omar Fauzee, Ma Criselda Tengco Pacquing, Miriam Parise, Farid Pazhoohi, Ekaterine Pirtskhalava, Koen Ponnet, Ulf-Dietrich Reips, Marc Eric Santos Reyes, Ayşegül Şahin, Fatima Zahra Sahli, Oksana Senyk, Ognen Spasovski, Singha Tulyakul, Joaquín Ungaretti, Mona Vintila, Tatiana Volkodav, Anna Wlodarczyk, Gyesook Yoo, Benjamin Gelbart, Piotr Sorokowski
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Given the ubiquitous nature of love, numerous theories have been proposed to explain its existence. One such theory refers to love as a commitment device, suggesting that romantic love evolved to foster commitment between partners and enhance their reproductive success. In the present study, we investigated this hypothesis using a large-scale sample of 86,310 individual responses collected across 90 countries. If romantic love is universally perceived as a force that fosters commitment between long-term partners, we expected that individuals likely to suffer greater losses from the termination of their relationships-including people of lower socioeconomic status, those with many children, and women-would place a higher value on romantic love compared to people with higher status, those with fewer children, and men. These predictions were supported. Additionally, we observed that individuals from countries with a higher (vs. lower) Human Development Index placed a greater level of importance on romantic love, suggesting that modernization might influence how romantic love is evaluated. On average, participants worldwide were unwilling to commit to a long-term romantic relationship without love, highlighting romantic love's universal importance.

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爱作为承诺工具:来自90个国家的跨文化研究证据。
鉴于爱无处不在的本质,人们提出了许多理论来解释它的存在。其中一种理论认为爱情是一种承诺装置,认为浪漫爱情的进化是为了促进伴侣之间的承诺,提高他们的繁殖成功率。在本研究中,我们通过在90个国家收集的86,310个个人回复的大规模样本来调查这一假设。如果浪漫的爱情被普遍认为是一种促进长期伴侣之间承诺的力量,我们预计个人可能会因为关系的终止而遭受更大的损失——包括社会经济地位较低的人、有很多孩子的人和女性——与社会经济地位较高的人、孩子较少的人和男性相比,他们会更看重浪漫的爱情。这些预测得到了支持。此外,我们观察到,来自人类发展指数较高(相对较低)的国家的个人对浪漫爱情的重视程度更高,这表明现代化可能会影响对浪漫爱情的评估。平均而言,世界各地的参与者都不愿意在没有爱情的情况下维持一段长期的浪漫关系,这凸显了浪漫爱情的普遍重要性。
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期刊介绍: Human Nature is dedicated to advancing the interdisciplinary investigation of the biological, social, and environmental factors that underlie human behavior. It focuses primarily on the functional unity in which these factors are continuously and mutually interactive. These include the evolutionary, biological, and sociological processes as they interact with human social behavior; the biological and demographic consequences of human history; the cross-cultural, cross-species, and historical perspectives on human behavior; and the relevance of a biosocial perspective to scientific, social, and policy issues.
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