Zusammenfassung: Hinsichtlich der geschlechtsspezifischen Unterschiede in der Partnerpräferenz existieren derzeit zwei konkurrierende Erklärungsansätze. Auf der einen Seite erklären evolutionspsychologische Theorien die Vorlieben für bestimmte ...
Zusammenfassung: Geschlechtsunterschiede in Partnerwahlpräferenzen können durch zwei Theorien erklärt werden: durch die evolutionär orientierte Theorie der sexuellen Strategien und durch die soziale Rollentheorie in Verbindung mit der Annahme einer ...
Abstract: Context effects on men's and women's reactions to infidelity were studied in a laboratory experiment. University students (71 male, 54 female) were randomly assigned to either a neutral-priming control condition or a condition where AIDS was ...
Abstract: According to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection altruistic behavior appears to be a paradox. Because altruistic behaviors are defined as acts of transferring resources to another person without getting any resources back (at least ...
Abstract: We presented a model conceptualizing depression following miscarriage or stillbirth as an evolutionary protective mechanism to avoid further fetal loss. The model postulates that these depressive symptoms delay the next attempt to reproduce and ...
Tell Me How Beautiful and Dominant My Partner Is: The Effects of Evaluations of a Friendly Person Regarding Physical Attractiveness and Dominance of a Potential Partner on Perceived Contact-WillingnessAbstract: The influence of other's judgments on ...
Zusammenfassung: Untersuchungen zur Partnerwahl zeigen kulturübergreifend, dass Frauen einen älteren wohlhabenden Partner präferieren, Männer ihrerseits Jugendlichkeit und physische Attraktivität einer Partnerin. Geburtsblinden Personen ist einerseits die ...
Research has found that, for long-term dating, women value men with greater financial resources and higher status, while for short-term dating they value men with greater physical attractiveness. However, there are discrepant results for both long- and ...
Zusammenfassung. Der Beitrag unterscheidet Ansätze der Untersuchung der Unterhaltungsrezeption in explorative und theoriegeleitete. Der “Uses and Gratifications“-Ansatz sowie der Eskapismusansatz sind dem explorativen Vorgehen zuzuordnen. Theoriegeleitete ...
Zusammenfassung. Die psychologische Theorienbildung und Forschung des vergangenen Jahrhunderts war in erster Linie geprägt von Versuchen, die Psychologie zu ent-biologisieren. Aktuell werden jedoch neuere evolutionstheoretische Konzepte und Darwinsche ...
Zusammenfassung. Obwohl Menschen das Gefühl der Angst im Alltag unangenehm ist, wenden sich viele Zuschauer/innen fiktionalen Medieninhalten zu, die gerade diese Emotion hervorrufen möchten. Probehandeln als evolvierter psychologischer Mechanismus (EPM) ...
Evolutionary psychology (EP) presents a new, integrated approach to human behavior, by explaining how the mental programs, designed by evolutionary selection, guide our social behavior. It claims that cognitive and emotional processes—that is domain-...
Abstract. The Coalitional Mate Retention Inventory (CMRI; Pham, Barbaro, Mogilski, & Shackelford, 2015) assesses the frequency with which individuals solicit allies to assist with mate retention efforts. The current study subjected the ...
Abstract. This study empirically investigates the effectiveness of using visual sexual appeals on the memory of men and women. It examines memory for the commercials activated by sexual versus nonsexual visual appeals. A mixed-factorial ...
To test rival explanations for sex differences in distress over sexual vs. emotional infidelity, evolutionary psychologists have studied people’s reactions to the infidelity suffered by close relatives, claiming that sex-of-target effects would support an ...
Shackelford and colleagues (2004) found that men, compared to women, are more distressed by sexual than emotional infidelity, and this sex difference continued into older age. We conducted four high-powered replications (total N = 1,952) of this effect ...
Abstract. We tested whether temporary social needs satisfaction through social surrogacy would ensure greater willingness to adhere to social distancing recommendations elicited by the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were randomly assigned ...
This article presents the fundamental paradigmatic principles of evolutionary psychology, which are then subjected to criticism. It is argued that evolutionary psychology suffers from both a number of unfounded empirical presuppositions and from ...