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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.
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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
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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
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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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Travel selfies on social media as objectified self-presentation
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From reciprocity to unconditional altruism through signalling benefits
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that unconditional altruism can evolve as a costly signal of individual quality as a consequence of reciprocal altruism, and signalling benefits of altruistic acts can establish a stable generosity by high–quality individuals that no longer depends on the probability of future reciprocation or punishment.
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Effects of Visual Exposure to the Opposite Sex: Cognitive Aspects of Mate Attraction in Human Males
TL;DR: A model of mate attraction mechanisms in which input cues from potential mates can prime those psychological representations that facilitate the behavioral expression of courtship tactics is suggested.