Matilda Brindle,Catherine F Talbot,Stuart West
Matilda Brindle
Kissing can be observed across the animal kingdom. This presents an evolutionary puzzle, since the fitness benefits of kissing are unclear. We use a non-anthropocentric approach to define kissing as a non-agonistic interaction involving dir...
William J Chopik
William J Chopik
Friendships are critical social alliances, and how people perceive their friends' psychological characteristics influences their maintenance and stability. In this study, I examined judgments of friends' cynicism (i.e., mistrust and antagon...
Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution [0.03%]
运用包容性 fitness 和生态进化理论来建模文化演化
Ryosuke Iritani,Stuart A West
Ryosuke Iritani
Baumard and André (2025) have suggested that cultural dynamics can be studied as a form of ecology. This provides a simpler unified approach to explaining cultural evolution, within the context of human behavioiur being shaped by natural s...
Cristine H Legare,John E Opfer,Justin T A Busch et al.
Cristine H Legare et al.
The theory of evolution by natural selection has begun to revolutionize our understanding of perception, cognition, language, social behavior, and cultural practices. Despite the centrality of evolutionary theory to the social sciences, man...
Evidence from hunter-gatherer and subsistence agricultural populations for the universality of contagion sensitivity [0.03%]
来自狩猎采集和基本农业群体的支持传染敏感性普遍性的证据
Coren L Apicella,Paul Rozin,Justin T A Busch et al.
Coren L Apicella et al.
The phenomenon of magical contagion - the unobserved passage of properties between entities that come into physical contact - was described by anthropologists over a century ago, yet questions remain about its origin, function, and universa...
Justin T A Busch,Rachel E Watson-Jones,Cristine H Legare
Justin T A Busch
Two studies examined children's reasoning about biological kinds in populations that vary in formal education and direct experience with the natural world, a Western (urban U.S.) and a Non-Western population (Tanna, Vanuatu). Study 1 examin...
An evolutionary perspective on the association between grandmother-mother relationships and maternal mental health among a cohort of pregnant Latina women [0.03%]
拉美孕妇群体中祖母和母亲关系与产妇精神健康之间关联的进化视角分析
Delaney A Knorr,Molly Fox
Delaney A Knorr
Grandmothers are often critical helpers during a mother's reproductive career. Studies on the developmental origins of health and disease demonstrate how maternal psychological distress can negatively influence fetal development and birth o...
Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic [0.03%]
家人仍然重要——全球大流行背景下42个国家的人类社交动机分析
Cari M Pick,Ahra Ko,Alexandra S Wormley et al.
Cari M Pick et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused drastic social changes for many people, including separation from friends and coworkers, enforced close contact with family, and reductions in mobility. Here we assess the extent to which people's evolutionarily...
Assessing different historical pathways in the cultural evolution of economic development [0.03%]
评估文化演进的不同历史途径对经济发展的影响
Adam Flitton,Thomas E Currie
Adam Flitton
A huge number of hypotheses have been put forward to explain the substantial diversity in economic performance we see in the present-day. There has been a growing appreciation that historical and ecological factors have contributed to socia...
Information transmission and the oral tradition: Evidence of a late-life service niche for Tsimane Amerindians [0.03%]
信息传递与口头传统：楚马尼美洲土著人晚年服务领域的证据
Eric Schniter,Nathaniel T Wilcox,Bret A Beheim et al.
Eric Schniter et al.
Storytelling can affect wellbeing and fitness by transmitting information and reinforcing cultural codes of conduct. Despite their potential importance, the development and timing of storytelling skills, and the transmission of story knowle...