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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Caring for sharing: How attachment styles modulate communal cues of physical warmth
TL;DR: The authors found that children who relate to their friends with a secure attachment style are more generous toward their peers in warm than in cold conditions, while children with an insecure attachment style did not always share less: they allocated more stickers to a friend than to a stranger.
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Going that extra mile: individuals travel further to maintain face-to-face contact with highly related kin than with less related kin.
TL;DR: It is suggested that the mediating effect of emotional closeness on altruism varies with levels of genetic relatedness, and participants were willing to travel further to visit parents, children and siblings as compared to more distantly related kin, even whenotional closeness was controlled for.
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Gratitude for help among adult friends and siblings.
TL;DR: It is concluded that feelings and displays of gratitude have a special role in friendships, and although a close sibling may elicit as much gratitude as a friend does, even a very close friend is not exempt from the logic of reciprocity in the same way that a sibling is.
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Family Matters: Rethinking the Psychology of Human Social Motivation:
Ahra Ko,Cari M Pick,Jung Yul Kwon,Michael Barlev,Jaimie Arona Krems,Michael E. W. Varnum,Rebecca Neel,Mark Peysha,Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat,Eduard Brandstätter,Ana Carla Crispim,Julio Eduardo Cruz,Daniel David,Oana A. David,Renata Pereira de Felipe,Velichko H. Fetvadjiev,Ronald Fischer,Silvia Galdi,Óscar Galindo,G. V. Golovina,Luis Gómez-Jacinto,Sylvie Graf,Igor Grossmann,Pelin Gul,Takeshi Hamamura,Shihui Han,Hidefumi Hitokoto,Martina Hřebíčková,Jennifer Lee Johnson,Johannes Karl,Oksana Malanchuk,Asuka Murata,Jinkyung Na,Jiaqing O,Muhammed Rizwan,Eric Roth,Sergio Salgado,Elena Samoylenko,Tatyana Savchenko,A. Timur Sevincer,Adrian Stanciu,Eunkook M. Suh,Thomas Talhelm,Ayse K. Uskul,Irem Uz,Danilo Zambrano,Douglas T. Kenrick +46 more
TL;DR: It is found that people generally view familial motives as primary in importance and mate-seeking motives as relatively low in importance, and motives linked to long-term familial bonds are positively associated with psychological well-being, but mate- seeking motives are associated with anxiety and depression.
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Cooperative Courtship: Helping Friends Raise and Raze Relationship Barriers
TL;DR: Novel patterns of cooperation within courtship interactions are investigated, revealed to be a commonly used set of mating strategies by which people functionally tailor aid to promote both their own and their friends’ romantic relationship interests.
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