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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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Fundamental Social Motives Mediate the Associations that Dangerous and Competitive Social Worldviews Have with Ideological Attitudes
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Do rich people “deserve” to be rich? Charitable giving, internal attributions of wealth, and judgments of economic deservingness
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TL;DR: This article found that people are more likely to attribute economic success to internal factors (such as hard work and competence) when "the rich" spend their money charitably versus when they spend it in a more luxurious manner.
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The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism
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