{"title":"When does Liking Children Lead to Parenthood? Younger Siblings, Implicit Prosocial Power Motivation, and Explicit Love for Children Predict Parenthood across Cultures","authors":"A. Chasiotis, Jan Hofer, D. Campos","doi":"10.1556/JCEP.4.2006.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/JCEP.4.2006.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"This study tests the cross-cultural applicability of a developmental pathway model explaining childbearing as behavioral outcome variable. This is done by using the childhood context variables birth order and implicit prosocial power motivation, and explicit love for children in adulthood as predictors. The model assumes that the interactional context of having younger siblings during childhood shapes the development of implicit prosocial motivation which in turn influences the verbalized, explicit articulation of parenting attitudes finally leading to becoming a parent. After examining the data for comparability across three selected cultures from Latin-America, Africa, and Europe, the model was tested via structural equation modelling. Results showed that the model is valid for males as well as females and can be applied in all three cultural samples. These findings point at a universal developmental pathway by specifying contextual and motivational factors leading to parenting behavior. Implications for evolutionary, cross-cultural, and developmental psychology are discussed.","PeriodicalId":89409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology","volume":"17 1","pages":"95-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85586685","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}
E. Mullet, Sheila Rivi re, María Teresa Muñoz Sastre
{"title":"Relationships between Young Adults' Forgiveness Culture and their Parents' Forgiveness Culture","authors":"E. Mullet, Sheila Rivi re, María Teresa Muñoz Sastre","doi":"10.1556/JCEP.4.2006.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/JCEP.4.2006.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examined whether forgiveness culture in young adults was related with forgiveness culture in their parents. One hundred and sixty-six young adults aged 18 to 33, their 166 biological fathers, aged 34 to 72, and their 166 mothers, aged 34 to 63, were presented with the Forgivingness Scale. Young adults' resentment tendencies were linked to their mothers' forgivingness while young adults' revengeful tendencies were linked to their fathers' forgivingness. These results are discussed in terms of gender-type stereotypes regarding the validity of emotions.","PeriodicalId":89409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology","volume":"35 1","pages":"159-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75727236","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}
{"title":"Evolution and religion in contemporary Hungary","authors":"Katalin Mund, G. Kampis","doi":"10.1556/JCEP.4.2006.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/JCEP.4.2006.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"The relation between science and religion has always been a question of interest since the early 19th century. Following international tendencies, in the past ten years a related polemic about evolution has become increasingly intensive in Hungary. The starting point of our research was the assumption that differences exist in the views of those with a factual knowledge of evolution (e.g. students who learned about evolution and studied aspects of it in laboratory, etc.), and those, whose attitudes towards evolution were formed exclusively by a general world view they devote themselves to. Subjects were university students. Questions we asked were the following: To what extent and in what way are students religious? Are biology students less or more religious then the average university student? Can religion encourage (or discourage) scientific thinking? Do insights of religion and of science complement or contradict each other? Do religion and science refer to the same kind of reality? What contributes m...","PeriodicalId":89409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology","volume":"3 1","pages":"125-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85433959","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}
{"title":"Generosity, Reputation, and Costly Signaling: A Preliminary Study of Altruism toward Unfamiliar People","authors":"Béla Birkás, T. Bereczkei, Z. Kerekes","doi":"10.1556/JCEP.4.2006.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/JCEP.4.2006.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"Generosity seems to be a cross-culturally ubiquitous feature of life. Helping others is considered as a costly act through which the altruists gain popularity and reputation in their refer- ence group and this elevated reputation will pay off for them in future social relationships. This costly signaling theory has been widely tested in pre-industrial societies. Our purpose was to ex- amine if the assumptions of CST are verifiable in modern, industrial societies. Using a complex experimental procedure with four subsequent phases we could examine reputation-gaining in real- istic conditions. We found that more people are willing to offer help to a charity organization when their group mates are aware of their altruistic intention than those whose offer was con- cealed from the rest of the group. In return, the offered charity service increased the altruist's reputation in the group; in the light of sociometric surveys they gained more popularity than the others. Finally, it turned out that whereas men are more likely to offer potential help in the pres- ence of others, women provide more actual help.","PeriodicalId":89409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology","volume":"52 1","pages":"173-181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84698798","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}
{"title":"EVOLUTIONARY PRE-ADAPTATION AND THE IDEA OF CHARACTER IN FICTION","authors":"K. Oatley, R. Mar","doi":"10.1556/JCEP.3.2005.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/JCEP.3.2005.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"Fiction can be a means of striving towards truths, but in a way that is more abstract than the truths of everyday happenings. We offer a staircase of evolutionary pre-adaptations on which works of literature such as novels and plays depend. These include systems of mirror-neurons, mimetic ritual, conversational language based on actions, narrative structure, metaphor, and imaginary play. These enable the mental simulations that people create when they listen to, or read, stories. We argue that the abstraction of literary character is a sophisticated version of the making of mental models of others that we form routinely in conversation.","PeriodicalId":89409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology","volume":"15 1","pages":"179-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79264553","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}
{"title":"Epistemology and Creative Invention","authors":"C. Milbrath","doi":"10.1556/JCEP.3.2005.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/JCEP.3.2005.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes social and epistemological models foreign to the area of creative psychology and applies them toward an analysis of a uniquely creative moment in prehistory, the origin of cave painting. The models presented have been used to study creative discovery in the history of science and in the thought of developing children. Kuhn’s model of scientific change as “revolution” ushered in by scientific crisis is used to understand the socio-cultural context in which the cultural revolution peculiar to Homo sapiens in Paleolithic Europe occurred. Piaget’s model of cognitive development is used to understand the cognitions that created the unparalleled images observed in the earliest known cave paintings and developed the manifest artistic practices. Although it is proposed that crisis kindled a social disruption which fostered the cultural transformation, the cognitive instruments, mechanisms, and processes humans use to construct knowledge are assumed to have operated uninterrupted and much as they do in present day humans. This assumption of functional continuity allowed exploration of the cognitive tools and generative processes evident in the cave images that Homo sapiens used to invent and evolve the domain we now call art. The application of these two models to what is known about the social context of the Upper Paleolithic period in which cave painting first emerged and to the cave paintings themselves is taken as a step toward a deeper contemplation of the question of how creative innovations in human thought develop.","PeriodicalId":89409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology","volume":"102 1","pages":"119-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85824757","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}
{"title":"Sexual selection, evolution of play and entertainment","authors":"P. Ohler, G. Nieding","doi":"10.1556/JCEP.3.2005.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/JCEP.3.2005.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper briefly introduces the principles of evolutionary biology with a main focus on the process of sexual selection. This is followed by an outline of evolutionary psychology. First an introduction to the classical approach to evolutionary psychology is given. This is followed by DONALD's (1991, 2002) model of co-evolution of cognition and culture. The behavior system “play” is reconstructed by referring to our own behavior-diversification proto-cognition theory of play which tries to establish an unified evolutionary theory of play in animals and humans. It is argued that play was crucial for the higher cognitions and consciousness of humans. On the basis of these different models, three evolutionary approaches concerning the evolutionary origins of entertainment are presented. They differ in their perspective on whether entertainment is really an adaptation of our species or only a by-product of other adaptations.","PeriodicalId":89409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology","volume":"13 1","pages":"141-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82095061","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}
{"title":"Action and reaction themes in personal life-narrative","authors":"G. Cupchik, M. Tassopoulos","doi":"10.1556/JCEP.3.2005.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/JCEP.3.2005.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"This study contrasted personal life narratives describing Action and Reaction oriented life episodes. Action episodes involve an attempt to achieve a goal or adjust to the demands of a situation with emotion resulting either from the fulfilment or frustration of these efforts. Reaction episodes involve holistic experiences with sensory, affective, and organic responses to autobiographically meaningful events. One hundred and fifty-one students at the University of Toronto completed a three-part questionnaire, each with 13 items, which was examined with factor analysis. The order in the questionnaire actually was - the first part inquired about Action, the second part Reaction, and the third part General responses to emotional episodes. In accordance with mainstream social psychological theorizing about emotion, intensity and attributional attention to causes loaded on separate factors for the Action model. An holistic response unifying the two factors was found for the Reaction model. Twenty-two of these ...","PeriodicalId":89409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology","volume":"20 1","pages":"195-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87351282","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}
{"title":"Evolutionary nature of virtual experience","authors":"K. M. Lee, Younbo Jung","doi":"10.1556/JCEP.3.2005.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/JCEP.3.2005.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Despite increasing dominance of virtual experience in our everyday life, there have been relatively few discussions on human responses to virtual experience. In the current paper, we define what virtual experience is based on, the types of objects being experienced, and the ways of experiencing. Then, we review three lines of research traditions examining the evolutionary nature of human responses to virtual experience - a) studies on Media Equation (ME) which investigate human responses to physical and/or social features of virtual objects; b) studies on Doubly Disembodied Language (DDL) which examine human responses to synthesized speech; and c)studies on human preferences for specific content types in media. Based on the general review of the three research traditions, we propose that people's natural and social responses to virtual objects and contents come from the cognitive hijacking of the general thinking mechanism by specialized mind modules.","PeriodicalId":89409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology","volume":"131 1","pages":"159-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85594578","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}
Tracy C. Eng, D. Kuiken, Krister Temme, Ruby Sharma
{"title":"Navigating the Emotional Complexities of Two Cultures: Bicultural Competence, Feeling Expression, and Feeling Change in Dreams","authors":"Tracy C. Eng, D. Kuiken, Krister Temme, Ruby Sharma","doi":"10.1556/JCEP.3.2005.3-4.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/JCEP.3.2005.3-4.4","url":null,"abstract":"Biculturally competent individuals may adopt flexible forms of emotional expression that help them address not only acculturation stress but also the forms of distress that affect bicultural and monocultural individuals alike. In a sample of 174 bicultural undergraduates, level of bicultural competence moderated the effects of an “existential” aspect of depression (i.e., the sense of a foreshortened future) in predicting both expressive flexibility during wakefulness and emotional flux within the content of impactful dreams. Among individuals high in bicultural competence, those who sensed a foreshortened future following loss or trauma were more likely to report: (1) feeling exploration through direct self-reflection; (2) feeling exploration through aesthetic response; and (3) spontaneous emotional flux within impactful dreams. These findings suggest that expressive flexibility among biculturally competent individuals becomes evident in their manner of identifying, understanding, and expressing emotions ...","PeriodicalId":89409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology","volume":"22 1","pages":"267-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74144128","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}