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On the Scientific Use and Conceptual Scope of the Term "Romantic Love". 论“浪漫爱情”一词的科学用法和概念范围。

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Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2026-10-03 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-026-09535-y

Piotr Sorokowski, Marta Kowal, Bogusław Pawłowski, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz

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Misuse of the Term "Romantic Love". 误用“浪漫爱情”一词。

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Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-25 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-026-09534-z

Adam Bode

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Ritualization of Complex Skill Acquisition : Cultural Transmission of Mastery in the Indian Miniature Painting Tradition. 复杂技能习得的仪式化：印度微型绘画传统中掌握的文化传播。

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Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-22 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-026-09533-0

Faiz A Hashmi, Alejandro Erut, Zachary Taylor, Cristine H Legare

{"title":"Ritualization of Complex Skill Acquisition : Cultural Transmission of Mastery in the Indian Miniature Painting Tradition.","authors":"Faiz A Hashmi, Alejandro Erut, Zachary Taylor, Cristine H Legare","doi":"10.1007/s12110-026-09533-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-026-09533-0","url":null,"abstract":"The processes by which traditional artistic knowledge is transmitted across generations with high fidelity remain poorly understood, particularly in non-Western contexts. This study examines how mastery of Indian miniature painting, a technically demanding and culturally significant art form, is acquired through a transmission process marked by ritualization. Using mixed methods, including structured interviews, surveys, logistic regression, and cultural consensus modeling, we studied 262 artists in Rajasthan, India, spanning novice to expert levels. Learning in this tradition is characterized by procedural rigidity, adherence to established norms, and the integration of religious practice. Novices are expected to conform strictly to traditional aesthetics, whereas experts are afforded greater creative freedom, a pattern consistent with a developmental progression from imitation to innovation. Artists consistently emphasized the spiritual dimensions of their craft: most reported beginning work with prayer, undergoing ritual purification, and weaving devotional customs throughout the creative process. These findings demonstrate how structured transmission practices preserve technical and aesthetic standards while embedding cultural and religious meaning in artistic mastery. The study extends theories of cultural transmission and offers practical insights for preserving traditional arts amid modernization.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149026210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Contents and Function of Humor Among Hunter-Gatherers. 狩猎采集者幽默的内容与功能。

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Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-10 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-026-09532-1

Marc Hye-Knudsen

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Durkheim, Indoctrinability and the Moral Ambivalence of Human Sociality : An Evolutionary Multilevel Model of Cultural Transmission, Cooperation and Group-Boundaries. 涂尔干：《灌输性与人类社会性的道德矛盾：文化传播、合作与群体边界的进化多层次模型》。

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Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-02 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-026-09531-2

Michael Windzio

{"title":"Durkheim, Indoctrinability and the Moral Ambivalence of Human Sociality : An Evolutionary Multilevel Model of Cultural Transmission, Cooperation and Group-Boundaries.","authors":"Michael Windzio","doi":"10.1007/s12110-026-09531-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-026-09531-2","url":null,"abstract":"Humans tend to be prosocial towards in-group members, but often hostile towards out-group members. In line with ethology and evolutionary psychology, this study develops the concept of Durkheimian learning, meaning that groups actively integrate individuals by cultural transmission of behavioral norms. Yet humans might have genetically evolved predispositions for indoctrinability and constrained learning of what is adaptive for self-interested individuals living in groups. In-group prosociality might have coevolved with tendencies towards out-group rejection. The mechanism behind this outcome might have been cultural-group selection in combination with gene-culture co-evolution. The feasibility of the argument will be illustrated by two simulation experiments of a selfish-teamwork game. Inspired by the Price equation of multilevel selection, the simulations combine fuzzy group-boundaries and between-group competition with cooperative behavior and intergenerational cultural transmission of prosocial behavior within groups. Results show that group boundaries, e.g. due to cultural markers, can explain the evolution of cooperative behavior. However, efficient Durkheimian learning and intergroup competition might have accelerated its expansion, despite of considerable levels of between-group migration. This insight will be discussed in the light of recent arguments from cultural evolutionary psychology.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148882117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sex Biases in Patterns of Parental Investment. 亲代投资模式中的性别偏见。

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Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-05 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-026-09523-2

F Sid Dougan, William Costello, David M Buss

{"title":"Sex Biases in Patterns of Parental Investment.","authors":"F Sid Dougan, William Costello, David M Buss","doi":"10.1007/s12110-026-09523-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12110-026-09523-2","url":null,"abstract":"Most research on human parental investment has focused on overall parental effort or resource allocation, overlooking the fact that human investment spans a broad suite of material, instructional, and social forms of investment. This array of investment enables examination of how evolutionary processes have elaborated parental care into distinct domains. Where daughters and sons historically faced different recurrent adaptive problems, selection should have favoured biases in parental investment that cultivate in each offspring the competencies relevant to its sex-specific challenges (e.g., navigating greater reproductive costs for daughters; navigating contest competition for sons). Likewise, mothers and fathers should differ in parental investment domains where their own evolutionary and life histories afforded greater sex-specific expertise. To test these hypotheses, we used linear mixed-effect models to analyse 105 adults' (49.5% female) ratings of parental investment received across 73 behaviours organised into 13 domains. Results were largely consistent with predictions. Daughters received more parental investment in mating and relationship guidance, protection, and material support. Sons received greater parental investment in athletic training, permissiveness regarding sexual behaviour, and competitive encouragement. Mothers invested more than fathers in direct care, bonding, social and moral guidance, and discipline. Fathers invested more in athletics, and mechanical and practical skills. Domains linked to adaptive challenges common to both sexes (e.g., direct care) showed no offspring-sex differences in parental investment. The patterns accord with the evolutionary hypothesis that parental investment maps onto sex-differentiated adaptive problems. Discussion explores hypotheses about the interactions between socialisation practices of parents and sex-linked predispositions in offspring.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":"241-270"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13633331/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147844593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Proximity Contacts and Self-perceived Vulnerability to Diseases Among High School Students - A Preliminary Study. 高中生近距离接触与疾病自我易感性的初步研究

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Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-04 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-026-09525-0

Piotr Fedurek, Dariusz P Danel

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The Bodily Self : How the Social Environment Influences Cardiac Interoceptive Accuracy. 身体自我：社会环境如何影响心脏内感受的准确性。

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Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-08 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-026-09526-z

Julia Verbe, Raphaël Gautier, Marianne Latinus, Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault, Frédéric Briend

{"title":"The Bodily Self : How the Social Environment Influences Cardiac Interoceptive Accuracy.","authors":"Julia Verbe, Raphaël Gautier, Marianne Latinus, Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault, Frédéric Briend","doi":"10.1007/s12110-026-09526-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12110-026-09526-z","url":null,"abstract":"The embodied self emerges from dynamic interactions between internal bodily signals and external sensory inputs, including those of social origin. Interoception (the perception and interpretation of internal bodily states) plays a central role in bodily self-consciousness and social cognition. Although socially salient contexts have been shown to modulate interoceptive accuracy (IAcc), the influence of passive social presence remains largely unexplored. In this study, we examined how the social exteroception modulates cardiac interoceptive accuracy using a heartbeat counting task in a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). Neurologically healthy participants (N = 32; ages 19-45) completed the task under both social and non-social exteroceptive conditions. Results showed that the mere presence of social exteroceptive cues significantly decreased IAcc. These findings indicate that even minimal social cues can influence internal bodily awareness, supporting the view that the embodied self is inherently relational and dynamically influenced by its social environment. This effect may reflect attentional competition between interoceptive and exteroceptive processes, consistent with predictive coding and attentional switching models. By leveraging immersive virtual reality, we created ecologically valid yet precisely controlled social contexts, minimizing the confounds of real-life physiological coregulation. Beyond theoretical implications, this study raises methodological considerations regarding the potential influence of social context, including experimenter presence, on interoceptive performance, and may inform clinical research on mental health conditions characterized by altered interoceptive and social processing.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":"285-304"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13633366/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148406302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","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-Ecological Basis of Xenophilia. 亲外动物的进化生态学基础。

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Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-026-09521-4

Cyril C Grueter

{"title":"The Evolutionary-Ecological Basis of Xenophilia.","authors":"Cyril C Grueter","doi":"10.1007/s12110-026-09521-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12110-026-09521-4","url":null,"abstract":"Humans are uniquely adept at cultivating positive, xenophilic relationships beyond their immediate group, forming bonds through various mechanisms such as trade, exogamy, and shared defense. Despite the significance of intergroup cooperation, synthetic approaches to understanding the evolutionary, ecological, and institutional drivers of xenophilia remain underdeveloped compared to the wealth of research on intergroup conflict. Here, I synthesize ethnographic, archaeological, psychological and comparative evidence to argue that xenophilia is supported by recurrent human cognitive and social capacities whose expression and stability depend on ecological, economic and institutional contexts. The aims of this paper are threefold: first, to clarify the selective pressures and incentives that favour peaceful intergroup relations, with particular attention to factors contributing to amicable intergroup ties and expanding the circle of tolerance and cooperation, including economic interdependence through trade and reciprocity, information exchange, exogamy, and the necessity of collective defense against external threats; second, to examine how these different drivers of xenophilia interact and under what conditions they generate, stabilize or fail to sustain intergroup tolerance; and third, to place human xenophilia in comparative perspective by highlighting both parallels and distinctions with non-human primates in their strategies for fostering intergroup peace. By distinguishing between mechanisms that generate cooperation and those that stabilize it in the face of freeriding and defection, this synthesis highlights how humans uniquely scale and institutionalize intergroup peace. This perspective is particularly timely, as uncovering the evolutionary roots of tolerance and cooperation across group boundaries remains crucial for addressing pressing global challenges such as climate change, poverty, famine, conflict, and disease.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":"215-240"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13633140/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147822224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Human Life History is Shaping Embodied Medicinal Plant Knowledge Across the Lifespan. 人类生命史正在塑造贯穿一生的药用植物知识。

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Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-08 DOI: 10.1007/s12110-026-09527-y

Jorge Izaquiel Alves de Siqueira, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

{"title":"Human Life History is Shaping Embodied Medicinal Plant Knowledge Across the Lifespan.","authors":"Jorge Izaquiel Alves de Siqueira, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque","doi":"10.1007/s12110-026-09527-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12110-026-09527-y","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we draw on theoretical frameworks from Life History Theory, and Embodied Capital Theory to assess the role of human life history in shaping local medical systems (LMSs) across the lifespan. We focus specifically on medicinal plants, as they can enhance individual fitness and contribute to overall health. Our central research question is: What role does human life history play in the construction of LMSs? To address this, we conducted an ethnobiological investigation in a small rural mixed-subsistence community in northern Piauí, Northeastern Brazil. We examined four key dimensions: (1) medicinal plant composition and therapeutic targets across the lifespan; (2) embodied medicinal plant knowledge (EMPK) strongly associated with specific life phases; (3) the influence of gender modulated by life history; and (4) medicinal plant knowledge strongly associated with men and women. Our findings indicate that (1) human life history shapes medicinal plant knowledge across the lifespan; (2) certain medicinal plants and therapeutic targets are strongly associated with the reproductive and post-reproductive phases; (3) EMPK between men and women differs only in reproductive phase; and (4) a distinct set of medicinal plants and therapeutic targets is strongly associated with women, but not with men. We argue that human life history structures life-phase-specific patterns of medicinal plant knowledge. These insights provide novel perspectives on how humans construct LMSs and are particularly relevant for understanding the differentiated contributions of men and women to these systems throughout the life course.","PeriodicalId":47797,"journal":{"name":"Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective","volume":" ","pages":"305-352"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13633173/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148406278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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