Is friendship akin to kinship
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A domain-specific over a domain-general approach to understanding intimate relationships is supported and a number of interesting questions about the modular structure of cognitive and affective processes involved in these relationships are raised.About:
This article is published in Evolution and Human Behavior.The article was published on 2007-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 125 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Kin recognition & Kinship.read more
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Assessing Call and SMS Logs as an Indication of Tie Strength
TL;DR: This work collected call and SMS logs and ground truth relationship data from 40 participants and found that frequent or long-duration communication likely indicates a strong tie, but little or no communication does not necessarily indicate a weak tie.
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Kinship effect on subjective temporal distance of autobiographical memory
Hui Jing Lu,Lei Chang +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that episodic memory bias in favor of kin was examined through individuals' subjective temporal estimations of past events, and that this kin-serving episodic temporal judgment bias was part of the human cognitive architecture partly responsible for altruistic behaviors toward kin.
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Private transfers to parents from their genetically related and nongenetically related children
TL;DR: In this paper, the hypothesis on altruistic transfers within families is investigated and it is shown that parents with a nongenetically related child are less likely to receive financial transfers from children than parents with all children genetically related.
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The self-regulation effect of fertility status on inbreeding aversion: when fertile, disgust increases more in response to descriptions of one's own than of others' inbreeding.
TL;DR: The ovulatory shift was stronger in descriptions where women themselves were described as engaging in inbreeding, and the latter effect was explained as due to self-reflection.
Considering others in Need: On altruism, empathy and perspective taking
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how different perspectives on the suffering of others, in combination with individual differences and situational variations, lead to empathy and the willingness to help those others.
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Handbook of social psychology
TL;DR: In this paper, Neuberg and Heine discuss the notion of belonging, acceptance, belonging, and belonging in the social world, and discuss the relationship between friendship, membership, status, power, and subordination.
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Parental investment and sexual selection
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The social psychology of groups
John W. Thibaut,Harold H. Kelley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on patterns of interdependence and assume that these patterns play an important causal role in the processes, roles, and norms of relationships in interpersonal relations.
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Social categorization and intergroup behaviour
TL;DR: In the second series of experiments, it was found that the maximum joint profit independent of group membership did not affect significantly the manner in which the subjects divided real pecuniary rewards; however, maximum profit for own group did affect the distribution of rewards; and the clearest effect on the subject's attempt to achieve a maximum difference between the ingroup and the outgroup even at the price of sacrificing other "objective" advantages.