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Blatant Benevolence and Conspicuous Consumption: When Romantic Motives Elicit Strategic Costly Signals
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In this article, the authors examined the possibility that conspicuous displays of consumption and benevolence might serve as ''costly signals'' of desirable mate qualities, and found that romantic motives seem to produce highly strategic and sex-specific self-presentations best understood within a costly signaling framework.Abstract:
Conspicuous displays of consumption and benevolence might serve as \"costly signals\" of desirable mate qualities. If so, they should vary strategically with manipulations of mating-related motives. The authors examined this possibility in 4 experiments. Inducing mating goals in men increased their willingness to spend on conspicuous luxuries but not on basic necessities. In women, mating goals boosted public--but not private--helping. Although mating motivation did not generally inspire helping in men, it did induce more helpfulness in contexts in which they could display heroism or dominance. Conversely, although mating motivation did not lead women to conspicuously consume, it did lead women to spend more publicly on helpful causes. Overall, romantic motives seem to produce highly strategic and sex-specific self-presentations best understood within a costly signaling framework.read more
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Happiness from Giving: Quantitative Investigation of Thai Buddhists
TL;DR: In this article, a household dataset from Thailand, where Buddhism is the main religion, suggests that religious and non-religious giving leads to a higher happiness level than not giving at all and that charitable giving in terms of money and goods gives a donor more happiness than does volunteer work.
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Different impacts of resources on opposite sex ratings of physical attractiveness by males and females
Guanlin Wang,Guanlin Wang,Minxuan Cao,Justina Sauciuvenaite,Ruth Bissland,Megan Hacker,Catherine Hambly,Lobke M. Vaanholt,Chaoqun Niu,Mark D. Faries,Mark D. Faries,John R. Speakman,John R. Speakman +12 more
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Exploring the persistence of female genital cutting and intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: Gibson et al. as discussed by the authors explored the persistence of FGC and IPV with three main objectives; 1) to gain further understanding of risk factors, 2) to test whether evolutionary theory can explain perpetrator motives, and 3) to draw out implications relevant to policy work.
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What a feeling! Touching sexually laden stimuli makes women seek rewards
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that women's previously documented unresponsiveness to sexual primes when making economic decisions may be a consequence of the specific types of primes that have been used (i.e., visual primes).
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Menstrual cycle effects on prosocial orientation, gift giving, and charitable giving
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