Pub Date : 2023-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s40806-022-00353-w
Jessica A. Hehman, R. Burch, C. Salmon
{"title":"Sibling Conflict and Closeness: The Effects of Sex, Number of Siblings, Relatedness, Parental Resemblance and Investment","authors":"Jessica A. Hehman, R. Burch, C. Salmon","doi":"10.1007/s40806-022-00353-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-022-00353-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41436542","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 : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s40806-022-00335-y
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 during the COVID pandemic. But despite extensive research on parasite stress theory, it is not still clear what kind of infectious disease contributes more to the emergence of cultures, what are the possible mechanisms through which pathogenic threat gives rise to cultural systems, and how parasite stress might affect vertical vs. horizontal dimensions of individualism-collectivism. This review summarizes and integrates major findings of parasite stress theory related to individualism-collectivism and its closely related variables and discusses future directions that researchers can take to answer the remaining questions.
{"title":"Of Germs and Culture; Parasite Stress as the Origin of Individualism-Collectivism.","authors":"Soheil Shapouri","doi":"10.1007/s40806-022-00335-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-022-00335-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 during the COVID pandemic. But despite extensive research on parasite stress theory, it is not still clear what kind of infectious disease contributes more to the emergence of cultures, what are the possible mechanisms through which pathogenic threat gives rise to cultural systems, and how parasite stress might affect vertical vs. horizontal dimensions of individualism-collectivism. This review summarizes and integrates major findings of parasite stress theory related to individualism-collectivism and its closely related variables and discusses future directions that researchers can take to answer the remaining questions.</p>","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9362146/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9462307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1007/s40806-022-00351-y
Russell T Warne
{"title":"National Mean IQ Estimates: Validity, Data Quality, and Recommendations","authors":"Russell T Warne","doi":"10.1007/s40806-022-00351-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-022-00351-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48790698","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 : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1007/s40806-022-00348-7
Stephen M Colarelli, Tyler J Mirando, Kyunghee Han, Norman P Li, Carter Vespi, Katherine A Klein, Charles P Fales
Responses to COVID-19 public health interventions have been lukewarm. For example, only 64% of the US population has received at least two vaccinations. Because most public health interventions require people to behave in ways that are evolutionarily novel, evolutionary psychological theory and research on mismatch theory, the behavioral immune system, and individual differences can help us gain a better understanding of how people respond to public health information. Primary sources of threat information during the pandemic (particularly in early phases) were geographic differences in morbidity and mortality statistics. We argue that people are unlikely to respond to this type of evolutionarily novel information, particularly under conditions of high uncertainty. However, because individual differences affect threat perceptions, some individual differences will be associated with threat responses. We conducted two studies (during Phase 1 and 2 years later), using data from primarily public sources. We found that state-level COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates had no relationship with mental health symptoms (an early indicator of how people were responding to the pandemic), suggesting that people-in general-were not attending to this type of information. This result is consistent with the evolutionary psychological explanation that statistical information is likely to have a weak effect on the behavioral immune system. We also found that individual differences (neuroticism, IQ, age, and political ideology) affected how people responded to COVID-19 threats, supporting a niche-picking explanation. We conclude with suggestions for future research and suggestions for improving interventions and promoting greater compliance.
{"title":"Responses to COVID-19 Threats: an Evolutionary Psychological Analysis.","authors":"Stephen M Colarelli, Tyler J Mirando, Kyunghee Han, Norman P Li, Carter Vespi, Katherine A Klein, Charles P Fales","doi":"10.1007/s40806-022-00348-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40806-022-00348-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Responses to COVID-19 public health interventions have been lukewarm. For example, only 64% of the US population has received at least two vaccinations. Because most public health interventions require people to behave in ways that are evolutionarily novel, evolutionary psychological theory and research on mismatch theory, the behavioral immune system, and individual differences can help us gain a better understanding of how people respond to public health information. Primary sources of threat information during the pandemic (particularly in early phases) were geographic differences in morbidity and mortality statistics. We argue that people are unlikely to respond to this type of evolutionarily novel information, particularly under conditions of high uncertainty. However, because individual differences affect threat perceptions, some individual differences will be associated with threat responses. We conducted two studies (during Phase 1 and 2 years later), using data from primarily public sources. We found that state-level COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates had no relationship with mental health symptoms (an early indicator of how people were responding to the pandemic), suggesting that people-in general-were not attending to this type of information. This result is consistent with the evolutionary psychological explanation that statistical information is likely to have a weak effect on the behavioral immune system. We also found that individual differences (neuroticism, IQ, age, and political ideology) affected how people responded to COVID-19 threats, supporting a niche-picking explanation. We conclude with suggestions for future research and suggestions for improving interventions and promoting greater compliance.</p>","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9753878/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10461851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-14DOI: 10.1007/s40806-022-00350-z
Mitch Brown, Ryan E Tracy, Patrick R. Neiswender
{"title":"Men’s Expectations for Postconflict Reconciliation with Physically Strong Opponents","authors":"Mitch Brown, Ryan E Tracy, Patrick R. Neiswender","doi":"10.1007/s40806-022-00350-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-022-00350-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47598196","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 : 2022-12-13DOI: 10.1007/s40806-022-00349-6
Yikang Zhang, Qian Sun, Guangju Wen, P. Santtila
{"title":"Types of Disgust Sensitivity are Differently Associated with Sexual Strategies, Mate Preference, and Perceived Sexual Norms","authors":"Yikang Zhang, Qian Sun, Guangju Wen, P. Santtila","doi":"10.1007/s40806-022-00349-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-022-00349-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48832417","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 : 2022-11-19DOI: 10.1007/s40806-022-00347-8
A. Wisman, Andrew G. Thomas
{"title":"In the Heat of the Short-Term Moment: Evidence that Heightened Sexual Arousal Increases Short-Term Mating Motivation Among Men","authors":"A. Wisman, Andrew G. Thomas","doi":"10.1007/s40806-022-00347-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-022-00347-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43966536","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 : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1007/s40806-022-00346-9
Maiko Kobayashi, Koyo Nakamura, Katsumi Watanabe
{"title":"Correction to: Sex Differences in the Motivation for Viewing Sexually Arousing Images","authors":"Maiko Kobayashi, Koyo Nakamura, Katsumi Watanabe","doi":"10.1007/s40806-022-00346-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-022-00346-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41406978","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 : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.1007/s40806-022-00344-x
Steven Arnocky, Adam C. Davis, T. Vaillancourt
{"title":"Resource Scarcity Predicts Women’s Intrasexual Competition: The Role of Trait and State Envy","authors":"Steven Arnocky, Adam C. Davis, T. Vaillancourt","doi":"10.1007/s40806-022-00344-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-022-00344-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41832875","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}