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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Does attitude similarity serve as a heuristic cue for kinship? Evidence of an implicit cognitive association
Justin H. Park,Mark Schaller +1 more
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.