Leaving your wife and your brothers: when polyandrous marriages fall apart [0.03%]
抛妻弃弟:一妻多夫婚姻破裂后的状况
K A. Haddix
K A. Haddix
Polyandry challenges both traditional sociocultural and evolutionary understandings of marriage. Its existence calls into question the importance of female sexual exclusivity and reproduction in marriage, two fundamental aspects of the affi...
G Rhodes,L A. Zebrowitz,A Clark et al.
G Rhodes et al.
We investigated whether the attractive facial traits of averageness and symmetry signal health, examining two aspects of signalling: whether these traits are perceived as healthy, and whether they provide accurate health information. In Stu...
The psychology of social chess and the evolution of attribution mechanisms: explaining the fundamental attribution error [0.03%]
社会心理博弈与归因机制的演变:解释基本归因误差的心理学原因
P W. Andrews
P W. Andrews
Theory of mind is the field devoted to understanding how organisms discern the mental states of others. Because mental states are not directly observable, they can only be inferred from observable features of the actor (such as behavior) an...
Induced abortion ratio in modern Sweden falls with age, but rises again before menopause [0.03%]
现代瑞典人工流产比率随年龄增长而降低,但在绝经前再次升高
B S. Tullberg,V Lummaa V
B S. Tullberg
A woman's reproductive value decreases over her reproductive life span and it is therefore predicted that the likelihood of termination of investment in a child decreases with increasing age. An eventual increase in termination ratio in the...
RL Burch,GG Gallup
RL Burch
Fifty-five men participating in a domestic violence treatment program agreed to complete a questionnaire and rate the degree to which their children looked like them. Ratings of paternal resemblance were positively correlated with the self-...
T Kiyonari,S Tanida,T Yamagishi
T Kiyonari
We propose that a "social exchange heuristic" is as important as the cheater detection mechanism for attaining mutual cooperation in social exchange. The social exchange heuristic prompts people to perceive a mixed-motive situation, such as...
Optimizing offspring: the quantity-quality tradeoff in agropastoral Kipsigis [0.03%]
优化后代:农牧业基普西格人的数量-质量权衡问题
Borgerhoff Mulder M
Borgerhoff Mulder M
The tradeoff between offspring quantity and offspring quality is at the heart of most evolutionary approaches to the fertility transition, as it is for demographers oriented towards economic explanations for this transition. To date, howeve...
Non-verbal behavior as courtship signals: the role of control and choice in selecting partners [0.03%]
非语言行为作为择偶信号:伴侣选择中的控制与主动权的作用
K Grammer,K Kruck,A Juette et al.
K Grammer et al.
In this work, we provide evidence based on direct observation of behavior in encounters of opposite-sexed strangers, that women initiate and "control" the outcome. In the first minute of these videotaped 10-min interactions, neither female ...
SJ Robinson,JT Manning
SJ Robinson
Sexual orientation may be influenced by prenatal levels of testosterone and oestrogen. There is evidence that the ratio of the length of 2nd and 4th digits (2D:4D) is negatively related to prenatal testosterone and positively to oestrogen. ...
Number of children desired and preferred spousal age difference: context-specific mate preference patterns across 37 cultures [0.03%]
期望子女数量与理想的夫妻年龄差距:37种文化中特定情境下的择偶偏好模式
DM Buss,TK Shackelford,GJ LeBlanc
DM Buss
Men universally express a preference for youth in a long-term mate, presumably an evolved desire originating from the close and recurrent statistical association between a woman's age and her residual reproductive value (future reproductive...