All posts; Tags Include "Evolutionary Psychology"
- January 24, 2013
- 08:52 PM
- 357 views
Why Does Stephen Hate Bob (More Than His Wife)?
by Jesse Marczyk in Pop Psychology
“If a wife left her husband with three kids and no job/ to run off to fuck in Hawaii with some doctor named Bob/ you could skin them and drain them of blood so they die…especially Bob. Then you would … Continue reading →... Read more »
Glaeser, E., & Sacerdote, B. (2003) Sentencing in Homicide Cases and the Role of Vengeance. The Journal of Legal Studies, 32(2), 363-382. DOI: 10.1086/374707
- January 20, 2013
- 12:16 AM
- 357 views
“Couldn’t-Even-Possibly-Be-So Stories”: Just-World Theory
by Jesse Marczyk in Pop Psychology
While I was reading over a recent paper by Callan et al (2012) about the effects that a victim’s age has on people’s moral judgments, I came across something that’s particularly - and disappointingly - rare in most of the … Continue reading →... Read more »
Callan, M., Dawtry, R., & Olson, J. (2012) Justice motive effects in ageism: The effects of a victim's age on observer perceptions of injustice and punishment judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(6), 1343-1349. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.07.003
Hafer, C. (2000) Investment in Long-Term Goals and Commitment to Just Means Drive the Need to Believe in a Just World. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1059-1073. info:/
- January 17, 2013
- 04:42 PM
- 380 views
Now You’re Just A Moral Rule I Used To Know
by Jesse Marczyk in Pop Psychology
At one point in my academic career I found myself facing something resembling an ethical dilemma: I had, what I felt was, a fantastic idea for a research project, hindered only by the fact that someone had conducted a very … Continue reading →... Read more »
Shu, L., & Gino, F. (2012) Sweeping dishonesty under the rug: How unethical actions lead to forgetting of moral rules. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(6), 1164-1177. DOI: 10.1037/a0028381
- January 2, 2013
- 01:49 PM
- 441 views
The Tension Between Theory And Reality
by Jesse Marczyk in Pop Psychology
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.” There is a relatively famous quote attributed to Michelangelo who was discussing his process of carving a statue: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved … Continue reading →... Read more »
Nowak, M. (2012) Evolving cooperation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 1-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.01.014
- December 29, 2012
- 03:28 PM
- 401 views
The Fight Over Mankind’s Essence
by Jesse Marczyk in Pop Psychology
All traits of biological organisms require some combination and interaction of genetic and non-genetic factors to develop. As Tooby and Cosmides put it in their primer: Evolutionary psychology is not just another swing of the nature/nurture pendulum. A defining characteristic … Continue reading →... Read more »
Geher, G., & Gambacorta, D. (2010) Evolution is Not Relevant to Sex Differences in Humans Because I Want it That Way! Evidence for the Politicization of Human Evolutionary Psychology. EvoS: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium , 32-47. info:/
Knobe, J., & Samuels, R. (2013) Thinking like a scientist: Innateness as a case study. Cognition, 126(1), 72-86. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.09.003
- December 28, 2012
- 07:40 AM
- 684 views
Human learning systems interact much like fly learning systems
by Björn Brembs in bjoern.brembs.blog
When we discovered a novel learning system in the fruitfly Drosophila (Brembs & Plendl, 2008) and then found out how it interacted with the one learning system which is described in all relevant textbooks (Brembs 2009), we weren't quite sure how general these findings would be for other animals and humans. In the subsequent years, genetically similar processes were discovered in the marine snail Aplysia, songbirds and mice, so we started to be quite confident that we had discovered something........ Read more »
Shmuelof, L., Huang, V., Haith, A., Delnicki, R., Mazzoni, P., & Krakauer, J. (2012) Overcoming Motor "Forgetting" Through Reinforcement Of Learned Actions. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(42), 14617-14621. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2184-12.2012
- December 21, 2012
- 07:02 AM
- 426 views
Red, redux: Men won’t pay attention to Tammy in red
by Rita Handrich in The Jury Room
You’ve seen our posts on wearing red (for both men and women) and the bounce you get in terms of perceived attractiveness and likability. But wait! New research says it doesn’t work for all of us! There is some new research that confirms the results of prior research, saying once again that when men look [...]
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Elliot, A., Greitemeyer, T., & Pazda, A. (2012) Women's use of red clothing as a sexual signal in intersexual interaction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.10.001
Elliot, A., Tracy, J., Pazda, A., & Beall, A. (2013) Red enhances women's attractiveness to men: First evidence suggesting universality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(1), 165-168. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.07.017
Schwarz, S., & Singer, M. (2013) Romantic red revisited: Red enhances men's attraction to young, but not menopausal women. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(1), 161-164. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.08.004
- December 19, 2012
- 11:39 AM
- 963 views
Epigenetics and Homosexuality
by Jon Wilkins in Lost in Transcription
So, last week featured a lot of news about a paper that came out in the Quarterly Review of Biology titled "Homsexuality as a Consequence of Epigenetically Canalized Sexual Development." The authors were Bill Rice (UCSB), Urban Friberg (Uppsala U), and Sergey Gavrilets (U Tennessee). The paper got quite a bit of press. Unfortunately, most of that press was of pretty poor quality, badly misrepresenting the actual contents of the paper. (PDF available here.)
I'm going to walk through the paper's ........ Read more »
Rice, W., Friberg, U., & Gavrilets, S. (2012) Homosexuality as a Consequence of Epigenetically Canalized Sexual Development. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 87(4), 343-368. DOI: 10.1086/668167
- December 17, 2012
- 06:38 PM
- 418 views
Full Frontal Nerdity: Understanding Elitists And Fakes
by Jesse Marczyk in Pop Psychology
“There is no such thing as “fake geek girls”; there are, only, girls who are at different, varying levels of falling in love with something that society generically considers to fall under the “nerd culture” category” -albinwonderland About a month … Continue reading →... Read more »
Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1996) Friendship and the banker's paradox: Other pathways to the evolution of adaptations for altruism. . Proceedings of The British Academy, 119-143. info:/
Zahavi, A. (1975) Mate selection—A selection for a handicap. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 53(1), 205-214. DOI: 10.1016/0022-5193(75)90111-3
- December 12, 2012
- 12:47 PM
- 434 views
The Drifting Nose And Other “Just-So”s
by Jesse Marczyk in Pop Psychology
In my last post dealing with PZ Myer’s praise for the adaptationist paradigm, which was confusingly dressed up as criticism, PZ suggested the following hypothesis about variation in nose shape: Most of the obvious phenotypic variation we see in people, … Continue reading →... Read more »
Noback, M., Harvati, K., & Spoor, F. (2011) Climate-related variation of the human nasal cavity. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 145(4), 599-614. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21523
- December 10, 2012
- 12:19 PM
- 807 views
Evolutionary Psychology: Careful, some practitioners may be carrying a kitchen knife!
by Greg Laden in Greg Laden's Blog
Darwinian Psychology, or really, any “Psychology” that claims to be science, will operate under the assumption that the human brain, as an organ, has arrived at its modern form through the process of evolution, which includes a certain amount of design through Natural Selection. It does not take that much additional sophistication to realize that…... Read more »
Fessler, D., Holbrook, C., & Snyder, J. (2012) Weapons Make the Man (Larger): Formidability Is Represented as Size and Strength in Humans. PLoS ONE, 7(4). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032751
- December 6, 2012
- 04:40 PM
- 424 views
Sexual selection in humans: Can you become more attractive by changing your voice?
by sahelanthropus in EvoAnth
New research reveals that putting on an overly masculine or effeminate voice does not make you more attractive. A while ago I wrote a post about sexual selection in humans, detailing how chest hair and waist-to-hip ratio appear to offer no functional benefits to people aside from making them attractive to the opposite sex. Some … Continue reading »... Read more »
Fraccaro, P., O'Connor, J., Re, D., Jones, B., DeBruine, L., & Feinberg, D. (2012) Faking it: deliberately altered voice pitch and vocal attractiveness. Animal Behaviour. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.10.016
- November 27, 2012
- 11:40 AM
- 500 views
The Sources of Violence and Conflict Within Us
by Jason Carr in Wired Cosmos
By and large, humanity has forgotten the relationship between thoughts and reality. The world that we experience is the reflection of what we carry inside us. Mystics, sages and shamans throughout the ages have tried to remind us of this fact. Western culture has largely turned its back upon such notions, however. Since the Industrial [...]... Read more »
Pearson DG, Ross FD, & Webster VL. (2012) The importance of context: evidence that contextual representations increase intrusive memories. Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry, 43(1), 573-80. PMID: 21867664
Grof, S. (1996) Consciousness evolution and planetary survival: Psychological roots of Human violence and greed. World Futures, 47(4), 243-262. DOI: 10.1080/02604027.1996.9972599
- November 9, 2012
- 08:42 AM
- 716 views
Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
by Jason Carr in Wired Cosmos
Generalized anxiety disorder (or GAD) involves a core group of physical symptoms along with frequent and uncontrollable worries that are often irrationally intense. It can be difficult to diagnose GAD, as its severity and nature may dramatically vary from person to person. However, the following eleven symptoms are the most common, so if you experience [...]... Read more »
Dupuy, J., & Ladouceur, R. (2008) Cognitive processes of generalized anxiety disorder in comorbid generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22(3), 505-514. DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2007.05.010
Barrera, T., & Norton, P. (2009) Quality of life impairment in generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, and panic disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23(8), 1086-1090. DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2009.07.011
Lawrence, A., & Brown, T. (2009) Differentiating Generalized Anxiety Disorder From Anxiety Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 197(12), 879-886. DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181c29992
- October 29, 2012
- 07:48 PM
- 721 views
Why do men and women want different things?
by sedeer in Inspiring Science
Regular readers will probably have realized from the links I share (or from my twitter stream) that sexism and gender …Continue reading »... Read more »
Zentner, M., & Mitura, K. (2012) Stepping Out of the Caveman's Shadow: Nations' Gender Gap Predicts Degree of Sex Differentiation in Mate Preferences. Psychological Science, 23(10), 1176-1185. DOI: 10.1177/0956797612441004
- October 28, 2012
- 06:30 PM
- 561 views
Introduction to evolving cooperation
by Artem Kaznatcheev in Evolutionary Games Group
Since 2009, I’ve had a yearly routine of guest lecturing for Tom’s Cognitive Science course. The way I’ve structured the class was by assigning videos to watch before the lecture so that I could build on them. Last year, I started posting the video ahead of time on the blog: my 2009 TEDxMcGill talk, Robert [...]... Read more »
Nowak MA. (2006) Five rules for the evolution of cooperation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5805), 1560-3. PMID: 17158317
- October 27, 2012
- 02:13 PM
- 361 views
Differentiating Between Effects And Functions
by Jesse Marczyk in Pop Psychology
A few days ago, I had the misfortune of forgetting my iPod when I got to the gym. As it turns out, I hadn’t actually forgotten it; it had merely fallen out of my bag in the car and I … Continue reading →... Read more »
Dunbar RI, Kaskatis K, Macdonald I, & Barra V. (2012) Performance of music elevates pain threshold and positive affect: Implications for the evolutionary function of music. Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior, 10(4), 688-702. PMID: 23089077
- October 23, 2012
- 02:21 AM
- 1,348 views
Race, penis size, and pseudoscience
by Scott McGreal in Eye on Psych
A soon to be published study by Richard Lynn claims to have found scientific evidence that there are substantial differences in the average penis length of men from different races. These claims are in line with vulgar racial stereotypes and are part of a larger research agenda based on a belief in ‘race realism’. Lynn’s theories about race rest on shaky foundations and the data sources he uses as evidence for his claims about penis sizes are untrustworthy. For these reasons, his claims sh........ Read more »
Lynn, R. (2012) Rushton’s r–K life history theory of race differences in penis length and circumference examined in 113 populations. Personality and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.02.016
Rushton, J., & Bogaert, A. (1987) Race differences in sexual behavior: Testing an evolutionary hypothesis. Journal of Research in Personality, 21(4), 529-551. DOI: 10.1016/0092-6566(87)90038-9
Weizmann, F., Wiener, N., Wiesenthal, D., & Ziegler, M. (1991) Eggs, eggplants and eggheads: A rejoinder to Rushton. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, 32(1), 43-50. DOI: 10.1037/h0078958
- October 17, 2012
- 06:01 PM
- 464 views
No, Really; Domain General Mechanisms Don’t Work (Either)
by Jesse Marczyk in Pop Psychology
Let’s entertain a hypothetical situation in which your life path had led you down the road to becoming a plumber. Being a plumber, your livelihood depends on both knowing how to fix certain plumbing-related problems and having the right tools for … Continue reading →... Read more »
Chiappe, D., & MacDonald, K. (2005) The Evolution of Domain-General Mechanisms in Intelligence and Learning. The Journal of General Psychology, 132(1), 5-40. DOI: 10.3200/GENP.132.1.5-40
- October 10, 2012
- 11:14 AM
- 453 views
No, Really; Group Selection Still Doesn’t Work
by Jesse Marczyk in Pop Psychology
Back in May, I posed a question concerning why an organism would want to be a member of group: on the one hand, an organism might want to join a group because, ultimately, that organism calculates that joining a group … Continue reading →... Read more »
Krasnow, M.M., Cosmides, L., Pederson, E.J., & Tooby, J. (2012) What are punishment and reputation for?. PLOS ONE. info:/
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