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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.
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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.

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The Social Psychology of Groups

TL;DR: The Social Psychology of Groups as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of family studies, where the authors introduced, defined, and illustrated basic concepts in an effort to explain the simplest of social phenomena, the two-person relationship.
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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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Disgust: Evolved Function and Structure

TL;DR: It is suggested that in addition to motivating pathogen avoidance, disgust evolved to regulate decisions in the domains of mate choice and morality and is recast into a framework that can generate new lines of empirical and theoretical inquiry.
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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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TARGET ARTICLE: Selective Investment Theory: Recasting the Functional Significance of Close Relationships

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an evolutionary theory of altruism-Selective Investment Theory (SIT) that human social bonds evolved as overarching, emotion regulating mechanisms designed to promote reliable, high-cost altruism among individuals who depend on one another for survival and reproduction.
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Diversity in social support by role relations: A typology ☆

TL;DR: A simple way to acquire comprehensive information and a condensed way to represent the complexity of a person's support network so this information can easily be included in classic survey analyses is presented.
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Emotional Closeness as a Mediator of the Effect of Genetic Relatedness on Altruism

TL;DR: Results showed that emotional closeness is an important proximal cause of altruism that partially mediates the effect of genetic relatedness on willingness to act altruistically.
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Does attitude similarity serve as a heuristic cue for kinship? Evidence of an implicit cognitive association

TL;DR: In this paper, attitude similarity serves as a heuristic cue signaling kinship, which may motivate kin-recognition responses even to unrelated individuals, and the activation of kinship cognitions was correlated with perceivers' willingness to help similar others.
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