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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The Social Psychology of Groups
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Microbes, mating, and morality: individual differences in three functional domains of disgust.
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Renovating the Pyramid of Needs: Contemporary Extensions Built Upon Ancient Foundations
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Disgust: Evolved Function and Structure
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The personal sense of power.
TL;DR: In studies involving a total of 1,141 participants and nine different samples, it is found that the personal sense of power was coherent within social contexts and was affected not only by sociostructural factors but also by personality variables such as dominance.
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Natural selection and the regulation of defenses: a signal detection analysis of the smoke detector principle.
TL;DR: A general theoretical perspective on the evolution of defense regulation can help to guide research and assist clinical decision making.
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Does morality have a biological basis? An empirical test of the factors governing moral sentiments relating to incest.
TL;DR: Results support Westermarck's hypothesis that childhood co–residence with an opposite–sex individual predicts the strength of moral sentiments regarding third–party sibling incest, and undercuts kin–recognition models requiring matching to self.
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The effects of perspective taking on motivations for helping: Still no evidence for altruism.
Jon K. Maner,Carol Luce,Steven L. Neuberg,Robert B. Cialdini,Stephanie L. Brown,Brad J. Sagarin +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the link between empathic concern and helping by employing an experimental perspective-taking paradigm used previously to demonstrate empathy-associated helping and assessing the empathy-helping relationship while controlling for a range of relevant, well-measured non-altruistic motivations.
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Trustworthy but not lust-worthy: context-specific effects of facial resemblance
TL;DR: It is shown that subtly manipulated images of other-sex faces were judged as more trustworthy by the participants they were made to resemble than by control participants, suggesting that facial resemblance is a kinship cue to which humans modulate responses in a context-sensitive manner.