Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1007/s40806-023-00379-8
Mons Bendixen, Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair
Abstract This study examines what beliefs people hold about other men’s and women’s reaction to infidelity and how related these beliefs are to one’s own jealousy response and to various socio-cultural influences. This novel approach was examined in a Facebook snowball sample ( N = 1213) who responded to three infidelity scenarios regarding what aspect of infidelity (emotional or sexual) they believed would make men and women more jealous and then what aspect would make themselves more jealous. The results suggest that both men and women believed men would be more upset by the sexual aspect of infidelity and that women would be more upset by the emotional aspect (i.e., falling in love). Own jealousy responses in men and women were strongly associated with beliefs about same-sex responses to infidelity and showed moderate association with beliefs about opposite-sex responses. Self-reported perceptions of cues to infidelity and knowledge from various sources about what (1) may be cues to infidelity and (2) may be typical reactions to infidelity were unrelated to beliefs about men’s and women’s jealousy responses and to own jealousy responses. We discuss whether beliefs about men’s and women’s jealousy responses may be culturally transmitted or more likely involve a dual model consisting of (a) reflection of own jealousy responses with (b) some cross-sex insights into jealousy reactions in men and women. The findings suggest that there may be evolved psychological adaptations for jealousy beliefs that extend to others of same and opposite sex.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1007/s40806-023-00377-w
Patrick Bonin, Gaëtan Thiebaut, André Didierjean, Jana Fančovičová, Natália Kubjatková, Pavol Prokop, Alain Méot
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Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1007/s40806-023-00373-0
C. A. Soper
{"title":"An Integrated General Theory of Psychopathology and Suicide","authors":"C. A. Soper","doi":"10.1007/s40806-023-00373-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-023-00373-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135934681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1007/s40806-023-00375-y
An Ting Yang, Hui Jing Lu, Lei Chang
Abstract The species-general life history (LH) principle posits that extrinsic morbidity-mortality risks accelerate organisms’ pace of life and promotes fast LH-related traits (e.g., earlier sexual maturation and reproduction). Humans, however, have experienced uniformly decelerated LH due to their evolved abilities and efforts in controlling environmental contingencies. The present study proposes that the reason for the existence of such human-specific deceleration of LH may be rooted in human parenting, hence aims to explore the roles of parenting within the relationships between environmental adversities and children’ LH calibration. The present study used data from the NIMH Data Archive (NDA) reported by 2014 children and their caregivers, and examined the effects of parental investment in calibrating children’s LH behavioral manifestations, as well as in moderating the impacts of environmental harshness and unpredictability on children’ development of LH. The findings showed that parental investment negatively predicts the development of fast LH behavioral profiles in children and moderates the impacts of environmental adversities directly imposed on children. We conclude that human parental investment serves as an important pivot in down-regulating environmental effects on children’s LH calibration, providing an alternative insight into the species-specific deceleration of LH.
{"title":"Environmental Harshness and Unpredictability, Parenting, and Offspring Life History","authors":"An Ting Yang, Hui Jing Lu, Lei Chang","doi":"10.1007/s40806-023-00375-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-023-00375-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The species-general life history (LH) principle posits that extrinsic morbidity-mortality risks accelerate organisms’ pace of life and promotes fast LH-related traits (e.g., earlier sexual maturation and reproduction). Humans, however, have experienced uniformly decelerated LH due to their evolved abilities and efforts in controlling environmental contingencies. The present study proposes that the reason for the existence of such human-specific deceleration of LH may be rooted in human parenting, hence aims to explore the roles of parenting within the relationships between environmental adversities and children’ LH calibration. The present study used data from the NIMH Data Archive (NDA) reported by 2014 children and their caregivers, and examined the effects of parental investment in calibrating children’s LH behavioral manifestations, as well as in moderating the impacts of environmental harshness and unpredictability on children’ development of LH. The findings showed that parental investment negatively predicts the development of fast LH behavioral profiles in children and moderates the impacts of environmental adversities directly imposed on children. We conclude that human parental investment serves as an important pivot in down-regulating environmental effects on children’s LH calibration, providing an alternative insight into the species-specific deceleration of LH.","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":"23 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134908189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1007/s40806-023-00374-z
Menelaos Apostolou, Georgia Tzannetatou
Abstract Romantic jealousy can lead to several negative outcomes, such as tensions between intimate partners, domestic violence, and even homicide. On the other hand, it has been hypothesized that this mechanism has a protective effect against infidelity. In the current research, we aimed to examine five predictions derived from this hypothesis. Specifically, we conducted a study with a sample of N = 333 Greek-speaking participants who were in an intimate relationship. Our findings revealed that intimate partners’ jealousy was predicted by discrepancies in mate value, attitudes toward cheating, and interactions with individuals of the opposite sex. Notably, the latter effect was observed exclusively among male participants. Furthermore, we found that an intimate partner exhibiting higher romantic jealousy was associated with reduced freedom to flirt with others. This effect was both direct and indirect, mediated by an increased fear of their partner’s reactions.
{"title":"The Infidelity Protection Nature of Romantic Jealousy: Testing Five Predictions in the Greek Cultural Context","authors":"Menelaos Apostolou, Georgia Tzannetatou","doi":"10.1007/s40806-023-00374-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-023-00374-z","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Romantic jealousy can lead to several negative outcomes, such as tensions between intimate partners, domestic violence, and even homicide. On the other hand, it has been hypothesized that this mechanism has a protective effect against infidelity. In the current research, we aimed to examine five predictions derived from this hypothesis. Specifically, we conducted a study with a sample of N = 333 Greek-speaking participants who were in an intimate relationship. Our findings revealed that intimate partners’ jealousy was predicted by discrepancies in mate value, attitudes toward cheating, and interactions with individuals of the opposite sex. Notably, the latter effect was observed exclusively among male participants. Furthermore, we found that an intimate partner exhibiting higher romantic jealousy was associated with reduced freedom to flirt with others. This effect was both direct and indirect, mediated by an increased fear of their partner’s reactions.","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136062102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1007/s40806-023-00370-3
Michael A. Woodley of Menie, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M. Sarraf, Daniel J. Kruger, C. Salmon
{"title":"Soft Core Evolutionary Psychology? Potential Evidence Against a Unified Research Program from a Survey of 581 Evolutionarily Informed Scholars","authors":"Michael A. Woodley of Menie, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M. Sarraf, Daniel J. Kruger, C. Salmon","doi":"10.1007/s40806-023-00370-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-023-00370-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46191848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1007/s40806-023-00369-w
M. Hye‐Knudsen
{"title":"Can Knowing How We Evolved Tell Us How We Should Live? Evolutionary Self-Help as a Genre","authors":"M. Hye‐Knudsen","doi":"10.1007/s40806-023-00369-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-023-00369-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44980975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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