{"title":"On causes and consequences; a reply to Durkee","authors":"Sean Prall , Brooke Scelza","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.12.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"45 1","pages":"Page 123"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138631742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter from the Editor","authors":"Debra Lieberman","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.01.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"45 1","pages":"Page 1"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139464822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mating-related stimuli induce rapid shifts in fathers' assessments of infants","authors":"James K. Rilling , Paige Gallagher , Minwoo Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.06.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A common life history theory trade-off is that which males face between mating effort and parental effort. This trade-off is observed across species, among individuals within a species, and within individuals across their lifespan. Recent studies suggest the possibility of more rapid trade-offs or motivational shifts in response to transient aspects of the social environment. We were interested in whether exposure to mating-related stimuli would negatively impact men's evaluation of parental-related stimuli and vice-versa, and whether this response would differ between fathers and non-fathers. In two separate experiments, a total of 160 heterosexual or bisexual men rated how appealing they found 40 images of attractive infants and 40 images of attractive adult females. Half of all participants viewed infant images before viewing female images, and the other half viewed female images before infant images. In both experiments, fathers rated infant stimuli as more appealing than did non-fathers when infants were presented before females, but not when infants were presented after females. That is, priming fathers with female stimuli negatively impacted their ratings of infants. On the other hand, priming men with pictures of cute infants before viewing females did not impact ratings of female pictures, in either fathers or non-fathers. Nor did priming fathers with pictures of another highly rewarding stimulus - highly appealing foods - decrease their ratings of infants. The negative effect of female pictures on fathers' subsequent ratings of infant stimuli is consistent with the possibility that the female pictures activated motivational systems related to mating effort, which in turn inhibited motivational systems related to parental effort, rendering the infant stimuli less appealing. Our findings suggest that human fathers may be susceptible to transient shifts in life history strategy as a function of their immediate social environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"45 1","pages":"Pages 13-19"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46733875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maternal investment in arranged and self-choice marriages: A test of the reproductive compensation and differential allocation hypothesis in humans","authors":"Annemarie M. Hasnain, Kristin Snopkowski","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.11.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Reproductive Compensation (RC) hypothesis and the Differential Allocation (DA) hypothesis predict that parents who mate under constraint will either increase or decrease, respectively, their reproductive effort and investment in offspring. One possible type of mate choice constraint in humans is arranged marriage in which parents or others choose mates. To test the RC and DA hypotheses in humans, we examine whether there are differences in parental investment between women in arranged marriages and those in self-choice marriages using data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (<em>n</em> = 8393). Marriage type does not significantly correlate with parental investment except for fertility outcomes where women in self-choice marriages had more live births, living children, and greater marital fertility than woman in arranged marriages. Our findings better support the DA hypothesis than the RC hypothesis. We conclude that, like many other species, free mate choice is associated with increased reproductive success in this sample of humans.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"45 1","pages":"Pages 99-110"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138509383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evidence from millions of births refutes the Trivers-Willard hypothesis in humans","authors":"Kaitlyn T. Harper, Brendan P. Zietsch","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.07.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.07.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"45 1","pages":"Pages 127-128"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42403100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael J. Beatty , Faith K. Siem , Scott W. Atherton , Steven G. Shenouda
{"title":"Systematic error measurement: Treating item errors as data","authors":"Michael J. Beatty , Faith K. Siem , Scott W. Atherton , Steven G. Shenouda","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.11.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.11.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"45 1","pages":"Pages 124-126"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138555364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are papers in Evolution & Human Behavior easy? A review of Scientific Papers Made Easy: How to Write with Clarity and Impact in the Life Sciences","authors":"Pat Barclay","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.09.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.09.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"45 1","pages":"Pages 129-130"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135606740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Henry M. Wainwright , Amy A.Z. Zhao , Morgan J. Sidari , Anthony J. Lee , Natalie Roberts , Tiah Makras , Brendan P. Zietsch
{"title":"Laughter and ratings of funniness in speed-dating do not support the fitness indicator hypothesis of humour","authors":"Henry M. Wainwright , Amy A.Z. Zhao , Morgan J. Sidari , Anthony J. Lee , Natalie Roberts , Tiah Makras , Brendan P. Zietsch","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.09.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.09.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Individuals consistently report preferring humour in a romantic partner; but it is unclear why. The ‘fitness indictor hypothesis’ proposes that attraction to humour evolved because it is an indicator of genetic fitness. Studies testing predictions from this hypothesis, mostly based on stated preferences regarding a hypothetical ideal partner or on artificial tasks or scenarios, have so far yielded conflicting evidence. Here, we assessed a sample of 554 participants' (291 women) stated preferences for various traits including humour production and receptiveness, and their revealed preferences for the same traits through speed dates (i.e. a naturalistic, face-to-face setting). Dates were audio-recorded for a subset of 350 participants (188 women), enabling additional assessment of revealed preferences based on an objective measure of humour in the form of laughter frequency. We tested the predictions that 1) humour is an attractive trait, and 2) men are more attracted to humour receptivity compared to women, and women are more attracted to humour production compared to men. Stated preferences from men and women largely replicated those found in the existing literature and are consistent with the fitness indicator hypothesis. Results from revealed preferences found a main effect of funniness on ratings of overall partner attractiveness, but there was no significant effect of laughter on attractiveness. Revealed preferences, using both funniness ratings and laughter, also found no main effect of humour receptivity on overall attractiveness. Finally, we observed no sex differences in the effects of humour production and humour receptivity, as measured by both funniness ratings and laughter, on ratings of overall attractiveness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"45 1","pages":"Pages 75-81"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135434059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prestige, conformity and gender consistency support a broad-context mechanism underpinning mate-choice copying","authors":"Melanie Foreman , Thomas J.H. Morgan","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.09.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mate choice is a fitness-relevant decision, that can be informed by the mate choices of others. Such mate-choice copying has been documented across multiple species, including humans. However, so has copying in many other contexts. As such, the exent to which mate-choice copying is underpinned by the same psychological mechanisms as copying in other contexts remains unclear. To test these hypotheses, we conducted an online experiment (recruiting from M-Turk, <em>n</em> = 165) to examine whether human mate choice copying is prestige and/or conformist biased (both of which are documented in other domains), and whether it differs between men and women. If mate choice copying is underpinned by broad-context mechanisms, we predict it will be similar in men and women, with both groups also exhibiting prestige-biased and conformist transmission. Our results match these predictions, exhibiting no evidence of a difference in mate-choice copying between men and women, and evidence of prestige-biased and conformist transmission. These results suggest that mate choice copying is the product of adaptive, broad-context copying mechanisms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"45 1","pages":"Pages 58-65"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135347810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epigenetic age acceleration and reproductive outcomes in women","authors":"Gabriel L. Schlomer","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Life history theory applied to human development stipulates that humans have evolved to detect and encode information from the early developmental environment that entrain coordinated development pathways. One possible mechanism is epigenetic age acceleration but few studies have prospectively examined associations between epigenetic aging and life-history related phenotypes. The purpose of this study was to examine the relations between epigenetic age acceleration when children were age 7 years and indices of reproductive development during adolescence using a sample of </span><em>N</em><span><span> = 512 youth from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). A path model was used to test direct and indirect associations between epigenetic age acceleration and age at </span>menarche (AAM), age at first sex, and lifetime and past year sexual partner number. Results showed epigenetic age acceleration was directly associated with earlier age at first sex and increased sexual partner number. There were further indirect associations with sexual partner number via age at first sex. Epigenetic age acceleration was not associated with AAM. Follow-up analyses to determine if aspects of the early developmental environment were associated with age acceleration were null. Implications for life history theory and the need for additional research are discussed.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"45 1","pages":"Pages 91-98"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138542213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}