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{"title":"Adolescent development of sexual misperception biases: females increasingly overperceived, males consistently underperceived","authors":"Marius Stavang,&nbsp;Mons Bendixen,&nbsp;Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106758","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106758","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Men overestimate women's sexual interest and women underestimate men's. Error Management Theory conceptualizes these sexual over- and underperception biases as adaptations. While the presence of these biases is well documented in adults, no previous research has explored their emergence and development during adolescence. We examined whether sexual over- and underperception biases were already present at age 16, whether they emerged later, and how they developed from ages 16 to 19. Given that adolescents face similar reproductive challenges as adults, we predicted these adaptations would already be activated by age 16. Following <span><span>Haselton's (2003)</span></span> procedure, a high-school community sample (males = 551, females = 739) from the Norwegian Health, Sexual Harassment, and Experiences Study (2013) reported if they had experienced being sexually over- and underperception during the previous 12 months.</div><div>Unexpectedly, females were first 17 years of age when they reported that males had an overperception bias, and it was not until age 19 that females were more frequently overperceived than males. This pattern resulted from females becoming increasingly overperceived from age 16 (7 %) to 19 (25 %). More males (13 %) than females (3 %) were underperceived at all ages. Since the proportion of overperceived males dropped to 3 % at age 19, 19-year-old males consequently reported that females had an underperception bias. Sociosexuality increased the risk of being overperceived for both sexes and additionally increased males' risk of being underperceived. Singlehood and sexual debut did not influence risk of being misperceived. Mate value strongly increased males' likelihood of being overperceived.</div><div>Developmentally, reports of sexual overperception undergo sex differentiation from mid- to late adolescence, while reports of sexual underperception are already sex-differentiated by age 16. Thus, males' overperception bias appears to emerge in middle adolescence, whereas females' greater tendency to underperceive males is likely present before mid-adolescence. Limitations regarding the timing of these biases and future directions for studying their developmental trajectories are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"46 6","pages":"Article 106758"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145361884","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":"A content-general adaptation for tribal value-acquisition","authors":"Peter Carruthers","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106791","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106791","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article proposes a solution to a puzzle: why is it that, across a wide range of domains, evaluative beliefs are apt to immediately shift our evaluative experience in both short-term and long-term ways? And why are these top-down influences on affective valuation so powerful? For there is no evidence of such influences in other animals, where evaluative learning is typically slow and experience-based. The proposal is that it was a vitally-important adaptive problem for our hunter-gatherer ancestors to swiftly acquire the values of the tribe, including not just tastes in food, fear of local predators and dangers, and so on, but also a whole suite of local norms, as well as a default positive valuation of co-tribal members themselves. The argument for content-generality then turns on the fact that some of these top-down influences appear to be by-products of a more general mechanism rather than adaptive in their own right.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"46 6","pages":"Article 106791"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362031","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":"Creating connection: greeting and leave-taking behavior in nonhuman primates","authors":"Lydia M. Hopper","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106772","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106772","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nonhuman primates create and maintain strong, positive social relationships with others. I examine the behaviors primates show when greeting their kin and allies, and how such greetings mirror embracing and kissing seen when humans are reunited or resolve conflict in order to maintain affiliative relationships. While physical contact during greeting creates opportunities for disease transmission and injury, it also helps to build and maintain social bonds and supports individuals when they reconcile and reunite. I also consider whether, like humans, primates also show leave-taking behaviors and if these are mediated by their relationship or the known duration of a loved one's upcoming absence. While there is clear evidence that primates do greet each other with physical touch and vocalizations, less is known about their leave-taking behavior. There has been a lack of study effort investigating leave-taking as compared to greeting behavior, and because proposed leave-taking interactions are more subtle than greetings further limits our ability to identify and track potential leave taking in nonhuman primates. I close with considerations of primates' responses to death – the most permanent departure. Disease and death disrupt social interactions both directly and indirectly and while human cultures have clear social rituals in response to death, there is a growing body of work demonstrating that primates also respond to the death of groupmates in distinct ways and that there are differential responses to the deaths of adult group members to those of infants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"46 6","pages":"Article 106772"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145048463","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":"Evolutionary moral psychology: Lessons from Westermarck","authors":"Otto Pipatti","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106747","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106747","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Edward Westermarck, a pioneer of modern evolutionary approaches to human behavior, is best known for his work on incest avoidance, while other significant aspects of his legacy remain unappreciated. This article argues that Westermarck's theory of moral emotions—arguably the most comprehensive evolutionary account of morality to date—offers a valuable analytical framework for investigating the emotional and evolutionary origins of moral judgments. It presents a concise synthesis of Westermarck's core ideas, focusing on how moral disapproval or indignation resembles anger and motivates punishment, while moral approval or praise resembles gratitude and motivates reward. These moral emotions differ from anger and gratitude in their apparent disinterestedness, impartiality, and generality, grounded in human social nature. They arise from sympathy, emotional contagion, aversion and disgust, and norm violations. In addition to Westermarck's moral psychology, the article examines his work on family formation and kinship as they relate to morality. It highlights connections to key theories of human cooperation, including kin selection, reciprocal altruism, indirect reciprocity, and gene-culture coevolution. The article concludes by exploring Westermarck's work on incest avoidance and the incest taboo in relation to his theory of moral emotions. It clarifies ambiguities in the literature on the incest taboo and illustrates how individual aversions can lead to sociocultural prohibitions across various domains. In addition to aversion-based rules, Westermarck also proposed a theory of sympathy-based rules, which is equally significant.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"46 6","pages":"Article 106747"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144861078","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":"Human behavioural ecology is cultural ecology","authors":"Ruth Mace","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106744","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106744","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"46 6","pages":"Article 106744"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144861077","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":"Replication of experiments and the canonisation of incorrect conclusions","authors":"Stuart A. West ,&nbsp;Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106749","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106749","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We are in the middle of a revolution over how to collect, analyse and interpret results in the human behavioural sciences. A key issue is to determine the extent to which experimental results are repeatable. However, if the experiment being replicated lacks the appropriate controls or null hypotheses, then replication of experiments can lead to the canonisation of incorrect conclusions. Experiments are required that allow a strong possibility to falsify hypotheses or allow competing hypotheses to be tested in an unbiased manner. We illustrate this problem, and how it can be solved, with examples from the literature on public goods games, which has been used to test hypotheses about the evolution of cooperation in humans.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"46 6","pages":"Article 106749"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144864224","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":"Culture as collective resource allocation across life history trade-offs: commentary on Baumard and André (2025)","authors":"Albina Gallyamova,&nbsp;Dmitry Grigoryev","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106748","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106748","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"46 6","pages":"Article 106748"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144879557","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":"Ancient kiss-tory: new perspectives on the evolution of early historical kissing","authors":"Troels P. Arbøll","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106778","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106778","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the earliest historical evidence for kissing in societies of the ancient Middle East and surrounding regions, from the mid-3rd to the early 1st millennium BCE. Drawing on linguistic, textual, visual, and archaeological sources, the study explores the cultural roles of romantic-sexual and familial-friendly kissing in ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq and Syria). The paper demonstrates that early written references to kissing range from mythological narratives of divine intimacy to legal texts regulating social behavior. The work employs translations of cuneiform sources, and all materials are available in previously published works referenced throughout the article. By situating these practices within broader debates on the origins and cultural contexts of especially romantic-sexual kissing, the article considers whether the earliest evidence reflects not only acts of intimacy, but also social practices that, in the 3rd millennium BCE, could have been associated with elite behavior. The analysis contributes to ongoing discussions in anthropology, by reconsidering whether romantic-sexual kissing originated as an elite practice or was more widely embedded in everyday life, while highlighting the methodological challenges of interpreting ancient sources.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"46 6","pages":"Article 106778"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145320013","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":"Towards an ecological model of the dark triad traits","authors":"Peter K. Jonason ,&nbsp;Dritjon Gruda ,&nbsp;Mark van Vugt","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106780","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106780","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Personality is shaped not only by individual and social experiences but also by the broader ecological contexts in which populations develop. This exploratory study integrates trait activation, life history, and sexual selection theories into an ecological model to explain cross-national variation in narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy as measured with the ultra-brief, Dirty Dozen measure. Using standardized data from 48 countries (<em>N</em> = 11,504) and six ecological indicators (i.e., population density, operational sex ratio, life expectancy, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and income inequality) across three developmental windows, we apply spatial autoregressive models to estimate both direct and spillover effects. We found that harsh or unpredictable ecologies (e.g., male-biased sex ratios, lower survival rates, disaster exposure) were associated with elevated Dark Triad personality traits and these same conditions magnify sex differences, while pathogen prevalence attenuates them. Moreover, neighboring countries' environments influenced focal nations' trait profiles. This work highlights the evolutionary and functional roots of antisocial tendencies at the macro-level by situating the Dark Triad traits within a multi-layered socio-ecological framework.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"46 6","pages":"Article 106780"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145320009","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":"Interpretive issues in discussion of evidence supporting adaptationist model of personality development: a commentary on Lukaszewski and Manson (2025)","authors":"Henry M. Wainwright","doi":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106759","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55159,"journal":{"name":"Evolution and Human Behavior","volume":"46 6","pages":"Article 106759"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144908490","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}