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Religious signaling and prosociality: A review of the literature 宗教信号与亲社会性:文献综述
IF 3 1区 心理学
Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.06.002
Stefanie B. Northover , Tadeg Quillien , Daniel Conroy-Beam , Adam B. Cohen
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Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample 女性为何出轨:在多国样本中检验女性不忠的进化假设
IF 3 1区 心理学
Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106595
Macken Murphy , Caroline A. Phillips , Khandis R. Blake
{"title":"Why women cheat: testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample","authors":"Macken Murphy ,&nbsp;Caroline A. Phillips ,&nbsp;Khandis R. Blake","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106595","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While scholars largely agree men's infidelity evolved by increasing offspring quantity, the evolutionary drivers of women's infidelity remain debated. The “good genes” (dual mating strategy) hypothesis posits infidelity allows women to pair the preferred genes of an affair partner with the preferred investment of their primary partner (Gangstad &amp; Thornhill, 1998). The mate-switching hypothesis instead argues infidelity helps women obtain a new mate without a period of deprivation (Buss et al., 2017). To test these hypotheses, we conducted a pre-registered survey of 254 individuals from 19 countries and 6 continents who were previously or currently engaged in infidelity. We measured individuals' perception of their primary partner and their affair partner across four domains: physical attractiveness, personal attractiveness, attractiveness as a co-parent, and overall desirability (mate value). We also asked participants to report their motivations for the affair. Consistent with a dual mating strategy, women experienced stronger physical attraction to their affair partners and stronger parental attraction to their primary partners. Contrary to the mate-switching hypothesis, women did not prefer their affair partners overall, parentally, or personally. There were no significant gender differences in these findings, suggesting strategic dualism in men as well. Our qualitative data revealed a more nuanced story at the individual level, with participants reporting motives consistent with a variety of evolutionarily coherent strategies. While our quantitative results speak to the relevance of the dual-mating hypothesis to understanding infidelity, our findings also suggest that seeking infidelity's primary explanation in either gender is, perhaps, too simple an approach to the issue.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513824000710/pdfft?md5=17fac63b8dd7bb1c5f853c1541025986&pid=1-s2.0-S1090513824000710-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141539191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Beyond the immediate effects of income inequality on homicide rates: A reply to Daly's critique 超越收入不平等对凶杀率的直接影响:回应戴利的批评
IF 3 1区 心理学
Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106597
Carlos Vilalta , Edel Cadena , Carlos Garrocho , Gustavo Fondevila
{"title":"Beyond the immediate effects of income inequality on homicide rates: A reply to Daly's critique","authors":"Carlos Vilalta ,&nbsp;Edel Cadena ,&nbsp;Carlos Garrocho ,&nbsp;Gustavo Fondevila","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106597","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study responds to Martin Daly's critique of our 2022 study on the correlation between income inequality and homicide rates in Mexican municipalities. Our updated analysis incorporates both immediate and lagged effects of income inequality, revealing significant non-linear relationships between past inequality and current homicide rates. We find that higher levels of past inequality interact with present inequality to increase homicide rates, particularly among currently average and highly unequal municipalities –not so much in less unequal municipalities. These findings support Daly's argument that economic inequality's influence on violent behavior accumulates over time, highlighting the need for a time dimension in homicide rate models. Our study emphasizes the importance of considering historical economic conditions when addressing socio-economic determinants of homicide, aiming to contribute constructively to ongoing attempts to effectively reduce homicidal violence.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141480993","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}
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Genomic findings and their implications for the evolutionary social sciences 基因组研究结果及其对进化社会科学的影响
IF 3 1区 心理学
Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106596
Brendan P. Zietsch
{"title":"Genomic findings and their implications for the evolutionary social sciences","authors":"Brendan P. Zietsch","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106596","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>What past selection pressures have shaped human traits and their variation and covariation across individuals? These are key questions in the evolutionary social sciences. Recent advances in the field of human genomics have yielded a wealth of evidence that sheds light on these questions, yet the findings and their implications seem to be little known in the evolutionary social sciences. In this paper I aim to bring together these findings while explaining the conceptual and technical background that is often assumed knowledge for reading the primary reports. First, I outline the genomics methodologies that have enabled the relevant findings, such as genomewide association studies and DNA-based heritability estimation. I describe how these methodologies reveal the genetic architecture of traits, and then how this information in turn enables inferences about past selection. The findings show pervasive evidence that the genetic architecture of complex traits has been shaped by negative (purifying) selection, implying that the extant genetic variation in the traits has been maintained by mutation-selection-drift balance. On the other hand, there is no evidence that balancing selection has substantively shaped complex traits, and strong evidence that it has not. Finally, I discuss the implications of these findings for issues such as the dimensional structure of personality variation and the plausibility of psychological life history theory.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513824000722/pdfft?md5=645cc54ab3f014e3bc9ba1f3bac18fee&pid=1-s2.0-S1090513824000722-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141480991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Prestige and dominance in egalitarian and hierarchical societies: Children in Finland favor prestige more than children in Colombia or the USA 平等社会和等级社会中的声望和支配地位:芬兰儿童比哥伦比亚或美国儿童更喜欢威望
IF 3 1区 心理学
Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.05.005
Maija-Eliina Sequeira , Narges Afshordi , Anni Kajanus
{"title":"Prestige and dominance in egalitarian and hierarchical societies: Children in Finland favor prestige more than children in Colombia or the USA","authors":"Maija-Eliina Sequeira ,&nbsp;Narges Afshordi ,&nbsp;Anni Kajanus","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.05.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.05.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We examined how children reason about dominance and prestige in Colombia, Finland, and the USA, contexts that vary in terms of societal inequality and hierarchical organization. We tested 496 children aged 4–11 years old to determine whether they: i) recognized and discriminated between dominance and prestige, ii) preferred to learn from a dominant or prestigious character, iii) assigned leadership to a dominant or prestigious character, and iv) self-identified more with a dominant or subordinate character. Older children were more likely to recognize, prefer, learn from, and assign leadership to the prestigious character, and to identify with the subordinate. There were no cross-cultural differences in learning preferences, supporting evolutionary theories that posit a universal bias towards social learning from prestigious individuals. There was variation in leadership preferences; children were the most likely to assign leadership to a prestigious character in more egalitarian Finland, and least likely in more unequal Colombia. We argue that societal factors including levels of inequality and hierarchical social organization shape an underlying propensity for children to learn to reason about rank and to broadly favor prestige in leaders and models for learning from.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513824000679/pdfft?md5=4bf084df9e4709d3f8c1a4f77125e9dc&pid=1-s2.0-S1090513824000679-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141480990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game 现金、人群与合作:独裁者游戏中人口密度和资源稀缺性对合作的影响
IF 3 1区 心理学
Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.04.009
Lynn K.L. Tan, Norman P. Li, Kenneth Tan
{"title":"Cash, crowds, and cooperation: The effects of population density and resource scarcity on cooperation in the dictator game","authors":"Lynn K.L. Tan,&nbsp;Norman P. Li,&nbsp;Kenneth Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.04.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.04.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The adaptive benefits of cooperation among humans have been widely studied. However, is being cooperative always adaptive across various combinations of ecological conditions? Existing work has focused on cultural, inter-, and intra-individual predictors of cooperation yet there is a lack of research on how an individual's ecology may come into play. In this work, we focus on the interaction of two ecological factors—population density and resource scarcity—on cooperation. Population density is often accompanied by social competition for limited resources. We hypothesise that in response to cues of high (versus low) population density, people facing resource-scarcity would adaptively lower their cooperativeness, more so than those with resource abundance. Results from two studies support our hypothesis—population density lowers cooperation, but only for people who perceive lower resources or social status. Our findings provide insights that cooperation varies adaptively as a function of interacting ecological factors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141480994","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}
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US adults accurately assess Hadza and Tsimane men's hunting ability from a single face photograph 美国成年人通过一张脸部照片准确评估哈扎人和齐马内人的狩猎能力
IF 3 1区 心理学
Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106598
Adar B. Eisenbruch , Kristopher M. Smith , Clifford I. Workman , Christopher von Rueden , Coren L. Apicella
{"title":"US adults accurately assess Hadza and Tsimane men's hunting ability from a single face photograph","authors":"Adar B. Eisenbruch ,&nbsp;Kristopher M. Smith ,&nbsp;Clifford I. Workman ,&nbsp;Christopher von Rueden ,&nbsp;Coren L. Apicella","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106598","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Trait inferences from faces are pervasive, but sometimes misleading. Past research indicates Americans infer hunting and gathering ability from others' faces, but the accuracy of these perceptions remains unknown. In three studies, we test whether Americans can accurately perceive foraging ability from faces. We used three datasets from two traditional subsistence societies (the Hadza and the Tsimane) in which individuals were photographed and evaluated by their peers on their ability to hunt or gather effectively (<em>N</em> = 175). US MTurkers (<em>N</em> = 579) then evaluated the photos for foraging ability. We found that MTurkers' perceptions of men consistently tracked peer-evaluated hunting ability (overall <em>r</em> = 0.25), suggesting that naïve perceptions of men's productivity from a face photo alone reflect actual hunting ability. MTurkers' perceptions of women's productivity inversely correlated with their peer-evaluated gathering ability, however. We discuss potential mechanisms and implications for research on social perception.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141480992","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}
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Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter 女性狩猎者有时会狩猎,但性别分工确实存在:对安德森等人(2023 年)《猎人的神话》的评论
IF 3 1区 心理学
Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.04.014
Vivek V. Venkataraman , Jordie Hoffman , Kyle Farquharson , Helen Elizabeth Davis , Edward H. Hagen , Raymond B. Hames , Barry S. Hewlett , Luke Glowacki , Haneul Jang , Robert Kelly , Karen Kramer , Sheina Lew-Levy , Katie Starkweather , Kristen Syme , Duncan N.E. Stibbard-Hawkes
{"title":"Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter","authors":"Vivek V. Venkataraman ,&nbsp;Jordie Hoffman ,&nbsp;Kyle Farquharson ,&nbsp;Helen Elizabeth Davis ,&nbsp;Edward H. Hagen ,&nbsp;Raymond B. Hames ,&nbsp;Barry S. Hewlett ,&nbsp;Luke Glowacki ,&nbsp;Haneul Jang ,&nbsp;Robert Kelly ,&nbsp;Karen Kramer ,&nbsp;Sheina Lew-Levy ,&nbsp;Katie Starkweather ,&nbsp;Kristen Syme ,&nbsp;Duncan N.E. Stibbard-Hawkes","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.04.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.04.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Gendered divisions of labor are a feature of every known contemporary hunter-gatherer (forager) society. While gender roles are certainly flexible, and prominent and well-studied cases of female hunting do exist, it is more often men who hunt. A new study (<span>Anderson et al., 2023</span>) surveyed ethnographically known foragers and found that women hunt in 79% of foraging societies, with big-game hunting occurring in 33%. Based on this single type of labor, which is one among dozens performed in foraging societies, the authors question the existence of gendered division of labor altogether. As a diverse group of hunter-gatherer experts, we find that claims that foraging societies lack or have weak gendered divisions of labor are contradicted by empirical evidence. We conducted an in-depth examination of the data and methods of <span>Anderson et al. (2023)</span>, finding evidence of sample selection bias and numerous coding errors undermining the paper's conclusions. <span>Anderson et al. (2023)</span> have started a useful dialogue to ameliorate the potential misconception that women never hunt. However, their analysis does not contradict the wide body of empirical evidence for gendered divisions of labor in foraging societies. Furthermore, a myopic focus on hunting diminishes the value of contributions that take different forms and downplays the trade-offs foragers of both sexes routinely face. We caution against ethnographic revisionism that projects Westernized conceptions of labor and its value onto foraging societies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141030576","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}
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Adult knowledge of wild plants associated with limited delayed health and nutritional benefits for children or adults in the face of external change: A yearly panel (2003−2010) study among Tsimane’, an indigenous Amazonian society in Bolivia 面对外部变化,成人对野生植物的了解与儿童或成人有限的延迟健康和营养益处有关:对玻利维亚亚马逊土著社会 Tsimane'的年度小组研究(2003-2010 年
IF 3 1区 心理学
Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106594
{"title":"Adult knowledge of wild plants associated with limited delayed health and nutritional benefits for children or adults in the face of external change: A yearly panel (2003−2010) study among Tsimane’, an indigenous Amazonian society in Bolivia","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106594","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106594","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cross-sectional studies suggest that local ecological knowledge (LEK) helps humans cope with their environment. Among the forms of LEK, adult knowledge of wild plants has been associated with better child and adult health. We assess if the concurrent links between i) LEK and ii) health and nutritional status last and examine if LEK yields delayed benefits when societies face large socioeconomic and environmental changes. We use a yearly panel (2002−2010) from Tsimane’, an Indigenous Amazonian society (Bolivia). All adults (∼440) and children (∼300) measured at baseline (2003) in 13 villages were followed yearly during 2004–2010 to estimate associations between a) baseline adult knowledge and skill about uses of wild plants and b) subsequent (2004–2010) anthropometric markers of nutritional status of themselves and the children (2y ≤ age ≤ 10y) living in the household at baseline. Among children, HAZ, BMI, and sum of four skinfolds were measured; among adults, BMI, sum of four skinfolds, and percent body fat with bioelectrical impedance were measured. Some skill losses increased by a large amount the likelihood of severe childhood stunting (HAZ &lt; -3) for girls; the complete loss of these skills increased the share of severely stunted girls from 5% to 13%–20%. These are big numbers. The effects of LEK on other anthropometric indicators of children or adults were small. For example, if all adults in a household lost all their ethnobotanical knowledge, children's and women's BMI would decrease by only 3% and 11%, respectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513824000709/pdfft?md5=a696e41f117ecaf6044cc34f2ed607ee&pid=1-s2.0-S1090513824000709-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141689810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Maternal depression as catalyst for cooperation: evidence from Uganda 产妇抑郁症是合作的催化剂:乌干达的证据
IF 3 1区 心理学
Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.04.003
Alessandra Cassar , Patricia H. Schneider , Chukwuemeka Ugwu
{"title":"Maternal depression as catalyst for cooperation: evidence from Uganda","authors":"Alessandra Cassar ,&nbsp;Patricia H. Schneider ,&nbsp;Chukwuemeka Ugwu","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.04.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the hypothesis that perinatal depression could function as a catalyst for a mother to elicit cooperation from others in times of need (Hagen, 2002). We analyze data on social support and depression from 292 women in Uganda around the time of giving birth and find that a perceived lack of support, especially from the baby's father, is linked to a higher risk of depression in the mother. Moreover, we employ a quasi-experimental strategy to analyze the lesser-studied direction of the causality and estimate the effect of perinatal depression on different types of support (instrumental, informational, emotional, economic) a mother receives from kin, affines, and unrelated individuals. The results indicate that mothers at the threshold of depression obtain increased help from several individuals, especially the baby's father. Others who show a positive reaction include the woman's mother (maternal grandmother), father (maternal grandfather), and, to a minor extent, father-in-law (paternal grandfather), and cousins. Unrelated but physically close individuals (neighbors and friends) generally provide substantial help but do not react at the depression threshold. Overall, our findings provide some evidence in favor of the bargaining hypothesis for maternal depression.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513824000382/pdfft?md5=0b399cf964028f34f01040e9a6948d3c&pid=1-s2.0-S1090513824000382-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141023190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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