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A Psychological Model and Measurement of the Fast-Slow Life History Strategy. 快慢生活史策略的心理模型与测量。

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Evolutionary Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-13 DOI: 10.1177/14747049251356976

Hui Jing Lu, Zhou Jin, An Ting Yang, Nan Zhu, Lei Chang

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Life History, Attachment and Romantic Relationship Outcomes in an Eastern European Adult Sample. 东欧成人样本的生活史、依恋和浪漫关系结果。

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Evolutionary Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1177/14747049251355861

Monika Kwiek, Daniel J Kruger, Przemyslaw Piotrowski

{"title":"Life History, Attachment and Romantic Relationship Outcomes in an Eastern European Adult Sample.","authors":"Monika Kwiek, Daniel J Kruger, Przemyslaw Piotrowski","doi":"10.1177/14747049251355861","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14747049251355861","url":null,"abstract":"Developmental environments shape attachment styles and life history (LH) patterns, both of which predict romantic relationship outcomes. However, the ways in which attachment styles interact with LH dimensions-specifically, mating effort and parenting effort-and how these relationships predict romantic relationship outcomes remain unclear. The current study investigated how these factors predict relationship satisfaction and conflict in a sample of Polish adults (N = 332, Mage = 39 years, SD = 9.10). We hypothesized that mating and parenting efforts would mediate the relationship between developmental environments and relationship outcomes independently from attachment style. Results supported this hypothesis for mating effort but not for parenting effort. Additionally, the current study found little support for a connection between mating/parenting effort and attachment styles and indicated that LH can be influenced by a broader range of early developmental experiences than attachment. The results imply that although both mating effort/parenting effort and attachment styles are affected by early environments and can predict the same relationship outcomes, the developmental processes through which they operate may differ. The implications of the obtained results are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47499,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychology","volume":"23 3","pages":"14747049251355861"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12304586/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144733956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Evolutionary Roots of Familial Altruism: Paternity Uncertainty Shapes Patterns of Kindness. 家族利他主义的进化根源：父权的不确定性塑造了善良的模式。

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Evolutionary Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1177/14747049251357493

Radim Kuba, Jaroslav Flegr

{"title":"The Evolutionary Roots of Familial Altruism: Paternity Uncertainty Shapes Patterns of Kindness.","authors":"Radim Kuba, Jaroslav Flegr","doi":"10.1177/14747049251357493","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14747049251357493","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated how paternity uncertainty (PU) shapes perceptions of familial kindness. We predicted that relatives with lower PU would be rated as kinder than those with higher PU. A total of 9,128 participants rated the kindness of specific relatives in their families. Main analyses focused on parents and maternal/paternal grandparents, who differ in their typical levels of PU. Siblings were included for broader within-family comparisons, while step-relatives, all having identical (maximal) PU, served as negative controls. Controlling for sex, age, and random effects of raters and targets, results supported PU predictions: PU showed a negative correlation with rated kindness (β = -0.148, t(31,910) = -6.23, p < 0.001, with the full model (including PU) significantly outperforming a reduced model (χ²(2) = 42.84, p < 0.001). Post-hoc tests revealed significant differences between adjacent PU levels (0 vs. 1: p < 0.001, d = 0.15; 1 vs. 2: p = 0.0002, d = 0.08). Mothers and maternal grandmothers (no PU) were rated the kindest, while the paternal grandfather (two PU) was rated lowest. Daughters consistently rated their biological parents higher than sons, possibly reflecting lower PU through female offspring. Maternal grandfathers were rated kinder than fathers, despite identical PU, perhaps due to redirected investment by non-reproducing elders. Furthermore, mothers were rated kinder than maternal grandmothers, possibly due to \"insider knowledge\" of their children's paternity. Step-relatives showed minimal variation, suggesting that observed differences among biological kin reflect genetic relatedness and PU, rather than non-genetic factors. Overall, our findings support kin selection theory and suggest that paternity uncertainty subtly yet systematically shapes perceptions of familial kindness.","PeriodicalId":47499,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychology","volume":"23 3","pages":"14747049251357493"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12254616/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144601938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Self-Perceived Physical Attractiveness and Moral Intuitions as Mediators Between Somatic-Parental Effort and Mating Orientation. 自我感知的身体吸引力和道德直觉在躯体父母努力和交配取向之间起中介作用。

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Evolutionary Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1177/14747049251349052

Andrzej Łukasik, Anna Wołpiuk-Ochocińska

{"title":"Self-Perceived Physical Attractiveness and Moral Intuitions as Mediators Between Somatic-Parental Effort and Mating Orientation.","authors":"Andrzej Łukasik, Anna Wołpiuk-Ochocińska","doi":"10.1177/14747049251349052","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14747049251349052","url":null,"abstract":"Research suggests that physical attractiveness may be associated with more permissive moral norms, which can in turn lead to the adoption of a more liberal sexual strategy. However, different predictions arise from evolutionary Life History Theory and Moral Foundations Theory. We hypothesized that self-reported physical attractiveness and moral intuitions (innate morality) mediate the relationship between somatic-parental effort (SPE) and sociosexual desire - an indicator of mating orientation. The study involved 326 women aged 19-33 years. A sequential mediation analysis was conducted. As hypothesized, higher levels of SPE were associated with higher self-reported physical attractiveness. It was also shown that self-perceived physical attractiveness was a positive indicator of innate morality and that among all moral intuitions only Authority was a negative predictor of a preference for short-term relationships. Furthermore, in the studied women SPE was a direct positive predictor only of the intuition of Sanctity/Purity. However, the relationship between physical attractiveness in women following the slow reproductive strategy and sociosexual desire was characteristic of reproductive effort rather than somatic-parental effort. However, it was found that certain relationships between variables were in particular characteristic of women with a rural background. For this reason, the obtained results in the hypothesis context are significantly limited to this specific subpopulation of women.","PeriodicalId":47499,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychology","volume":"23 3","pages":"14747049251349052"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12290270/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144683386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sex Differences in Children's Motivation and Action Patterns for Climbing as Behavioral Relicts of Ancestral Sexual-Size Dimorphism. 儿童攀登动机和行为模式的性别差异：祖先性别大小二态性的行为遗留物。

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Evolutionary Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1177/14747049251358630

Richard G Coss, Victor K Geisler, Michael Newmann

{"title":"Sex Differences in Children's Motivation and Action Patterns for Climbing as Behavioral Relicts of Ancestral Sexual-Size Dimorphism.","authors":"Richard G Coss, Victor K Geisler, Michael Newmann","doi":"10.1177/14747049251358630","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14747049251358630","url":null,"abstract":"Four studies investigated sex differences in children's motivation and action patterns for climbing playground structures and a gymnasium rock wall to assess any influence of ancestral sexual-size dimorphism limiting tree-climbing agility. Study 1 examined yearly incidences of children aged 3 to 13 falling from monkey bars and jungle gyms in a 1985-1989 National Electronic Injury Surveillance System dataset. Injury incidences of 3- to 6-year-old girls were lower than those of same-aged boys with the inverse occurring between ages 7 through 10 (p < 0.001). Study 2 determined that, during two recess periods in 13 elementary schools, 3.14% of enrolled girls were climbing playground structures compared with 1.45% of enrolled boys (p = 0.021) who were less inclined to climb as they aged. Study 3 showed that 6 to 8 year-old girls climbing alone perched longer (p = 0.0004) on 3 jungle gyms in a regional park longer than same-aged boys. Extended perching by girls might reflect their greater desire for surveillance useful historically for assessing danger. For Study 4, video recordings were made of the climbing actions of 28 children 7- to 12- years of age enrolled in an indoor rock-wall climbing class for beginners. Girls exhibited marked climbing differences (p = 0.005), with discriminant function analysis classifying 84.6% of girls correctly and 86.7% of boys correctly. While tree climbing was not studied directly, the sex differences shown in these studies indicates that girls are motivated to climb playground structures more than boys and climb rock walls using different action patterns.","PeriodicalId":47499,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychology","volume":"23 3","pages":"14747049251358630"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12268147/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144643773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Influence of Mating Context on Creativity: Insights from Simulated Dating Scenarios. 交配环境对创造力的影响：来自模拟约会场景的见解。

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Evolutionary Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1177/14747049251337983

Katarzyna Galasinska, Aleksandra Szymkow, Marco Antonio Correa Varella

{"title":"The Influence of Mating Context on Creativity: Insights from Simulated Dating Scenarios.","authors":"Katarzyna Galasinska, Aleksandra Szymkow, Marco Antonio Correa Varella","doi":"10.1177/14747049251337983","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14747049251337983","url":null,"abstract":"Creativity offers both survival and reproductive benefits, being a desirable trait in potential mates and linked to fertility and sexuality. We investigated whether viewing attractive faces of potential short-term or long-term partners in a simulated dating portal enhances participants' creativity. We also explored possible mediators (arousal, mood, sexual arousal, motivation, and attraction) and moderators (relationship status, satisfaction, mate value, and sociosexual orientation). In Study 1, 483 participants (Mage = 30.06, SD = 6.37; 242 women, 241 men) viewed either four attractive or four unattractive opposite-sex potential partners and wrote self-promotional bios. No significant creativity differences were found between the attractive and unattractive groups. However, men were more flexible and produced more original ideas than women, while women showed greater fluency and self-creativity promotion. In Study 2, 494 participants (Mage = 30.84, SD = 6.06; 258 women, 236 men) viewed profiles of attractive potential partners for either short-term or long-term inclined relationships. Women's fluency and originality were higher in the long-term condition, but sexual arousal negatively impacted both fluency and originality when choosing an attractive partner for a long-term relationship, particularly when a real date desirability with the mate was high. Overall, the results suggest that creativity is influenced by the mating context, though the effects were modest. Future studies should increase sample sizes, geographic diversity, and experimental settings.","PeriodicalId":47499,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychology","volume":"23 2","pages":"14747049251337983"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12089731/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144102798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Short-Term Mating Orientation Predicts Openness to "Sugar Relationships" More Than Life History Strategy. 短期交配倾向比生活史策略更能预测对“糖关系”的开放程度。

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Evolutionary Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1177/14747049251339453

Norbert Meskó, Jessica S Ehlers, András N Zsidó

{"title":"Short-Term Mating Orientation Predicts Openness to \"Sugar Relationships\" More Than Life History Strategy.","authors":"Norbert Meskó, Jessica S Ehlers, András N Zsidó","doi":"10.1177/14747049251339453","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14747049251339453","url":null,"abstract":"Life history theory suggests that individuals vary in their sexual, reproductive, parental, familial, and social behavior in response to the physical and social challenges encountered during development. So-called \"sugar relationships\" generally involve exchanges of resources for sex and/or companionship between a younger partner and an older provider. This research aimed to explore the relationship between openness to sugar relationships and life history strategy. A total of 312 participants (192 women, 120 men) completed an extensive online questionnaire, including scales such as the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Young Women and Men Scale, High-K Strategy Scale, Multidimensional Measure of Sociosexual Orientation, Family Resources Scale, Childhood Unpredictability Scale, and Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Scale. The results indicate that openness to sugar relationships is primarily associated with short-term mating orientation, while the role of life history strategy appears to be weaker than previously assumed. Importantly, the SEM analysis reveals an indirect link between limited family resources in childhood and openness to sugar relationships, mediated by a fast life history strategy. This pathway suggests that early environmental constraints may shape an adaptive orientation toward immediate resource acquisition in adult relationships. No such associations were observed among men, indicating sex-specific patterns. These findings provide insight into how specific life history strategies, particularly in women, may influence attitudes toward resource-based relationships, illustrating the nuanced interactions between early experiences, life history orientation, and adult relational preferences.","PeriodicalId":47499,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychology","volume":"23 2","pages":"14747049251339453"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12120294/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144162849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How People React to the Termination of an Intimate Relationship: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study. 人们对亲密关系终止的反应：一项探索性混合方法研究。

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Evolutionary Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/14747049241312231

Menelaos Apostolou, Isaias Taliadoros, Timo Juhani Lajunen

{"title":"How People React to the Termination of an Intimate Relationship: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study.","authors":"Menelaos Apostolou, Isaias Taliadoros, Timo Juhani Lajunen","doi":"10.1177/14747049241312231","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14747049241312231","url":null,"abstract":"Intimate relationships frequently come to an end, and in the current research, we have endeavored to examine how individuals would potentially react in the scenario where their intimate partner decides to terminate a relationship they wish to continue. More specifically, employing open-ended questionnaires on a sample of 219 Greek-speaking participants, we identified 79 possible reactions. Subsequently, using close-ended questionnaires on a sample of 442 Greek-speaking participants, we categorized these reactions into 13 broad factors. Participants indicated that they were more likely to feel sadness, inquire of their departing partners why they wish to end the relationship, and attempt to divert their thoughts elsewhere to avoid dwelling on the end of the relationship. Men indicated a higher likelihood than women to seek revenge sex, although significant sex differences were not observed in other reactions. Furthermore, we classified these 13 factors into three broader domains. The highest-rated domain was \"Accept and forget,\" followed by \"Sadness and depression,\" and \"Physical and psychological aggression.\" These findings could enable us to gain a better understanding of the process of relationship dissolution, and could potentially be employed to identify and prevent reactions that may have harmful repercussions for the individuals involved in the relationship.","PeriodicalId":47499,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychology","volume":"23 1","pages":"14747049241312231"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11726518/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142972670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sex Differences in Perception of Economic and Dating Access. 经济和约会渠道感知的性别差异。

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Evolutionary Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/14747049241310154

Rachel E Hall, Khandis Blake, Ho Fai Chan, Benno Torgler, Stephen Whyte

{"title":"Sex Differences in Perception of Economic and Dating Access.","authors":"Rachel E Hall, Khandis Blake, Ho Fai Chan, Benno Torgler, Stephen Whyte","doi":"10.1177/14747049241310154","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14747049241310154","url":null,"abstract":"Mating and labor markets are fundamental drivers of societal dynamics. Yet, equity of access to these domains differs between the sexes due to numerous biological, economic, psychological, and socio-cultural factors. These inequalities and their impacts can accentuate perceptions, preferences, and behaviors of males and females in different ways. Utilizing a large cross-sectional sample of those currently engaged in the Australian mating market (n = 1072 online daters), we explored the impact of sex and individual differences on the perceptions of men's ease of access to a decent job in the labor market (opportunity), women's economic dependence on men (economic inequality), and relative reproductive opportunity (dating access) for both sexes. Our study identifies both sex differences and symmetries in socio-economic factors (such as education level and having offspring) correlating with the perceptions of both economic and dating market access for Australian online daters. Additionally, key resource endowment indicators (income and unemployment) also reflect differences in both sexes' perceptions of both access and gender equity. That said, our study finds that perceptions of access to both (economic and mating) markets shows far greater variation based on biological age (especially for women) than any other factor.","PeriodicalId":47499,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychology","volume":"23 1","pages":"14747049241310154"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11808775/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Pace of Life Is Faster for a Bored Person: Exploring the Relationship Between Trait Boredom and Fast Life History Strategy. 无聊的人的生活节奏更快：探索特质无聊与快速生活史策略之间的关系。

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Evolutionary Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/14747049241310772

Garam Kim, Eunsoo Choi

{"title":"Pace of Life Is Faster for a Bored Person: Exploring the Relationship Between Trait Boredom and Fast Life History Strategy.","authors":"Garam Kim, Eunsoo Choi","doi":"10.1177/14747049241310772","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14747049241310772","url":null,"abstract":"Life history theory suggests that in harsh, unpredictable environments, individuals may benefit from adopting a fast life history strategy. This may involve experiencing boredom more frequently and intensely as an adaptive mechanism to seek novel stimuli, potentially increasing the number of sexual partners and offspring. This study explored the relationship between trait boredom-a chronic characteristic of feeling bored-and fast life history strategies. Our findings confirmed a positive association between boredom proneness and fast life history strategies at both individual and country levels. In Study 1, fast life history strategy was positively correlated with boredom proneness and mediated the relationship between perceived childhood support/resources and boredom proneness. In Study 2, we conducted a multi-level analysis using secondary data from 15 countries. The results showed that countries with higher boredom proneness scores showed more indicators of faster life history strategies. These results suggest that trait boredom may be a functional characteristic of fast life history strategists. This study is the first empirical investigation of trait boredom within a life history framework, highlighting trait boredom's functional role from evolutionary and ecological perspectives.","PeriodicalId":47499,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychology","volume":"23 1","pages":"14747049241310772"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11748154/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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