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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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Going green to be seen: Status, reputation, and conspicuous conservation.
TL;DR: Supporting the notion that altruism signals one's willingness and ability to incur costs for others' benefit, status motives increased desire for green products when shopping in public and when green products cost more (but not less) than nongreen products.
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Microbes, mating, and morality: individual differences in three functional domains of disgust.
TL;DR: This work investigates a 3-domain model of disgust and introduces a new measure of disgust sensitivity, which shows predictable differentiation based on sex, perceived vulnerability to disease, psychopathic tendencies, and Big 5 personality traits.
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Renovating the Pyramid of Needs: Contemporary Extensions Built Upon Ancient Foundations
TL;DR: This work revisits the idea of a motivational hierarchy in light of theoretical developments at the interface of evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology and proposes a renovated hierarchy of fundamental motives that serves as both an integrative framework and a generative foundation for future empirical research.
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The evolutionary basis of risky adolescent behavior: Implications for science, policy, and practice
Bruce J. Ellis,Marco Del Giudice,Thomas J. Dishion,Aurelio José Figueredo,Peter Gray,Vladas Griskevicius,Patricia H. Hawley,W. Jake Jacobs,Jenée James,Anthony A. Volk,David Wilson +10 more
TL;DR: The evolutionary model contends that understanding the evolutionary functions of adolescence is critical to explaining why adolescents engage in risky behavior and that successful intervention depends on working with, instead of against, adolescent goals and motivations.
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Viral marketing: Motivations to forward online content
Jason Ho,Melanie A. Dempsey +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the relationship between individualistic and altruistic motivations and the frequency of forwarding online content and investigate if high trait curiosity can indirectly lead to more forwarding by increasing the amount of online content consumed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how introducing differences in individual generosity together with partner choice into models of reciprocity can lead to an escalation in altruistic behavior, referred to as competitive altruism.
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Turtle hunting and tombstone opening: public generosity as costly signaling
TL;DR: Costly signaling theory (CST) offers an explanation of generosity and collective action that contrasts sharply with explanations based on conditional reciprocity as discussed by the authors, which makes it particularly relevant to situations involving widespread unconditional provisioning of collective goods.
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Dominance and heterosexual attraction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relation between behavioral expressions of dominance and the heterosexual attractiveness of males and females, and found that manipulated dominance enhanced only a male's sexual attractiveness and not his general Usability.
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Functional projection: how fundamental social motives can bias interpersonal perception.
Jon K. Maner,Douglas T. Kenrick,D. Vaughn Becker,Theresa E. Robertson,Brian Hofer,Steven L. Neuberg,Andrew W. Delton,Jonathan Butner,Mark Schaller +8 more
TL;DR: Results from 2 experimental studies suggest that self-protection and mate-search goals lead to the perception of functionally relevant emotional expressions in goal-relevant social targets and are consistent with a functionalist, motivation-based account of interpersonal perception.