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Advancing the Understanding of Phenotypic Mimicry in Men’s Conspicuous Consumption 推进对男性显性消费中表型模仿的理解

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Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1007/s40806-024-00404-4

Daniel J. Kruger

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Effects of Accelerated Reproductive Timing in Response to Childhood Adversity on Lifetime Reproductive Success in Modern Environments 在现代环境中，童年逆境导致的生殖时间加速对终生生殖成功的影响

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Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1007/s40806-024-00403-5

Atsushi Kometani, Yohsuke Ohtsubo

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Women’s Dangerous World Beliefs Predict Biases Against Formidable Men in Legal Domains 女性的 "危险世界 "信念预示着在法律领域对强大男性的偏见

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Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1007/s40806-024-00402-6

Bridget A. O’Neil, Mitch Brown

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Distractibility and Impulsivity in ADHD as an Evolutionary Mismatch of High Trait Curiosity 多动症的分心和冲动是高好奇心特质的进化错配

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Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40806-024-00400-8

Anne-Laure Le Cunff

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Reciprocator-Recipient Asymmetries in Reciprocal Altruism 互惠利他主义中施惠者与受惠者的不对称性

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Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-07-12 DOI: 10.1007/s40806-024-00399-y

Michael R. Ent

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Social Media Ills and Evolutionary Mismatches: A Conceptual Framework 社交媒体疾病与进化错配：概念框架

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Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1007/s40806-024-00398-z

Amy J. Lim, Edison Tan

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Unveiling the Shadows: An Exploratory Analysis of Perceived Disadvantages in Intimate Relationships 揭开阴影对亲密关系中感知到的不利因素的探索性分析

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Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-06-24 DOI: 10.1007/s40806-024-00397-0

Menelaos Apostolou, Eleni Iniati, Andrea Charalambous, Alexia Zalaf, Antonios Kagialis

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Why are we Afraid of Holes? A Brief Review of Trypophobia Through an Adaptationist Lens 我们为什么害怕洞？从适应论的角度简评 "恐洞症

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Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-06-24 DOI: 10.1007/s40806-024-00396-1

Gaëtan Thiebaut, Alain Méot, Pavol Prokop, Patrick Bonin

{"title":"Why are we Afraid of Holes? A Brief Review of Trypophobia Through an Adaptationist Lens","authors":"Gaëtan Thiebaut, Alain Méot, Pavol Prokop, Patrick Bonin","doi":"10.1007/s40806-024-00396-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-024-00396-1","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to provide a brief overview of trypophobia, or in other words the fear of \"clusters of holes\". The first peer-reviewed paper on this curious phenomenon only appeared in the scientific literature about a decade ago, i.e., Cole and Wilkins (Psychological Science 24(10) 1980–1985, 2013), even though it negatively affects a relatively large portion of the general population. After briefly describing the theoretical framework within which most studies of trypophobia are conducted—namely ‘evolutionary psychology’—, we will characterize this phobia and then outline the two main hypotheses likely to explain the disorder: the ‘dangerous animal’ and the ‘skin disease-avoidance’ hypotheses, respectively. As trypophobia is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), we will discuss the issue of categorizing this phobia among other specific phobias. The aim of this brief review is therefore to describe the (rare) scientific work that has been done on this a priori innocuous and strange condition, most of which agrees with the idea that the fear of clusters of holes is related to our evolutionary history.","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141502827","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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Examining Ecological Harshness, Sociosexuality, and Mate Value in Women’s Preferences for Men’s Height and Shoulder-to-Hip Ratio 考察女性对男性身高和肩臀比偏好中的生态苛刻性、社会性和配偶价值

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Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-05-29 DOI: 10.1007/s40806-024-00394-3

Ray Garza, Regina Gonzalez Elizondo, Farid Pazhoohi

{"title":"Examining Ecological Harshness, Sociosexuality, and Mate Value in Women’s Preferences for Men’s Height and Shoulder-to-Hip Ratio","authors":"Ray Garza, Regina Gonzalez Elizondo, Farid Pazhoohi","doi":"10.1007/s40806-024-00394-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-024-00394-3","url":null,"abstract":"Physical features in men, such as height and shoulder-to-hip ratio (SHR), have been shown to contribute to women’s mate preferences. The independent and interactive effects of height and SHR have been shown to be associated with attractiveness, masculinity, dominance, and fighting ability. It is suggested that these sexually dimorphic features are a reflection of men’s genetic quality, in addition to the ability to provide direct benefits (e.g., protection, resource provisioning). The current study investigated how ecological harshness may modulate women’s mate preferences to men displaying variations in height and SHR ratio. In a sample of predominately Hispanic women (N = 247), manipulating ecological harshness did not affect their ratings of men. Women considered taller men with larger SHRs as more attractive, masculine, dominant, and higher in fighting ability. Interestingly, these ratings were moderated by individual differences in women’s mate value but not sociosexuality. Women with higher mate value rated all men who were taller than the anchor woman (172 cm) in the presentation sequence as more attractive, masculine, dominant, and higher in fighting ability. The findings replicated previous research on the interactive effects of men’s height and SHR and showed that women calibrate their mating preferences as a function of their overall mate quality (i.e., mate value).","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141169850","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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Life History Strategy in Poland: Population Displacement as a Life History Accelerating Event 波兰的生命史战略：作为生活史加速事件的人口迁移

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Evolutionary Psychological Science Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40806-024-00388-1

Slobodan Koljević

{"title":"Life History Strategy in Poland: Population Displacement as a Life History Accelerating Event","authors":"Slobodan Koljević","doi":"10.1007/s40806-024-00388-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-024-00388-1","url":null,"abstract":"Population-level life history research on humans has proven to be a fruitful research program, establishing numerous socioeconomic and behavioral correlates of life history strategy. Herein, this research program is extended to the Republic of Poland. Life history speed is estimated for 380 powiats and cities with powiat status. To investigate how life history associates with socioeconomic development, the general socioeconomic factor (S factor) is also extracted. Presidential election results are used to emulate differences in political behavior. In line with previous research, the data show that fast life history strategy is negatively correlated with the S factor and percentage of votes for the conservative presidential candidate. Notably, powiats located within Western Borderlands (territories that were part of Germany prior to World War II) tend to have faster life history strategy. This pattern could be explained by forced population displacement of over 1.5 million people that were resettled from USSR into Western Borderlands, thus replacing prior German inhabitants. Forced population displacement can be understood as a disruptive life event that accelerates life history strategy. This can have long-lasting effects, and the present study provides additional insight into the detrimental consequences of population displacement.","PeriodicalId":52399,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Psychological Science","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140565043","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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