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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Is aversion to incest psychologically privileged? When sex and sociosexuality do not predict sexual willingness
TL;DR: In Study 1, sociosexuality predicted negative judgments of non-incestuous (but still normatively proscribed) sexual acts, but not judgments of incestuous sexual acts; in Study 2, the effect was limited to sociosexually restricted men.
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Helping others use social media: age stereotypes when estimating learner's success
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how 212 university undergraduate Facebook users estimated success with helping others use Facebook when learner's age (20, 40, 60 year olds) and type of acquaintance (friend or kin) was manipulated in hypothetical scenarios.
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Distinguishing Family from Friends
Rick O'Gorman,Ruth Roberts +1 more
TL;DR: There is some evidence that people hold more positive general dispositions toward friends, associate attitude similarity more with friends, consider family as more representative of the in-group than friends, but see friends as more in-groups than distant kin.
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Information, kinship, and community: Perceptions of doula support by teen mothers through an evolutionary lens
TL;DR: A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries and can be found in the library catalog for the location and call number.
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Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy
TL;DR: The authors found that women (versus men) report greater friendship jealousy at the prospective loss of best friends to others, while men (vs. women) reported greater friendship envy at the potential loss of acquaintances to others and men's friendship envy is enhanced in the context of intergroup contests.
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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
TL;DR: The p,cnetics of sex nas now becn clarif ied, and Fishcr ( 1958 ) hrs produccd , n,od"l to cxplarn sex ratios at coDception, a nrodel recently extendcd to include special mccha_ nisms that operate under inbreeding (Hunrilron I96?).
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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.