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Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about 发泄让人们更喜欢--更倾向于支持我们，而不是我们发泄的对象

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106608

Jaimie Arona Krems , Laureon A. Merrie , Nina N. Rodriguez , Keelah E.G. Williams

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The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs 巫术信仰的文化演变

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106610

Sarah Peacey , Baihui Wu , Rebecca Grollemund , Ruth Mace

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Children's evolved cues to promote caregiving: Are voices more powerful than thoughts in signaling young children's attributes and needs to adults? 儿童进化出的促进照料的线索：在向成人传递幼儿的属性和需求时，声音是否比想法更有力？

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106609

Carlos Hernández Blasi , David F. Bjorklund , Sonia Agut , Francisco Lozano Nomdedeu , Miguel Ángel Martínez

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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

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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

{"title":"Religious signaling and prosociality: A review of the literature","authors":"Stefanie B. Northover , Tadeg Quillien , Daniel Conroy-Beam , Adam B. Cohen","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.06.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The costly signaling theory of religion states that costly religious behaviors, badges, and bans (“religious practice” for short) are signals of commitment to the ingroup and its moral code. Such signals are proposed to increase cooperation. Here we review the empirical literature, which suggests that religious actors are often perceived as especially trustworthy and may be more likely recipients of help and cooperation. The evidence does not present a clear picture regarding the actual trustworthiness nor prosocial tendencies of religious actors<em>.</em> Limited available evidence suggests that routine forms of religious behavior are associated with ingroup favoritism. High-cost, infrequent, highly social forms of religious practice are associated with an increase in religious identity, but also an expanded social identity and greater tolerance for outgroup members. Following the literature review, we provide a discussion of proposed future research directions pertaining to the costs and benefits of religious practice, moderators, secular versus religious practice, and mediation of the relationship between observed religious practice and perceptions of religious actors' trustworthiness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"45 5","pages":"Article 106593"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141606889","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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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

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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 , Caroline A. Phillips , 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 & 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":"45 5","pages":"Article 106595"},"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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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

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106596

Brendan P. Zietsch

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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

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Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106597

Carlos Vilalta , Edel Cadena , Carlos Garrocho , Gustavo Fondevila

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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

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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 , Narges Afshordi , 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":"45 4","pages":"Article 106591"},"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

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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

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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

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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 , 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","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":"45 4","pages":"Article 106586"},"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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