An Integrative Evolutionary Perspective on Ethnicity

2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Similarity Theory ◽  
Adaptive Strategies ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Motivational Systems ◽  
Genetic Similarity Theory ◽  
Human Kinds ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This paper integrates several different but mutually consistent evolutionary approaches to ethnicity: genetic similarity theory, social identity theory, individualism/collectivism, an evolved racial/ethnic human kinds module, and rational choice mechanisms relying on domain general cognitive mechanisms. These theories are consistent with each other, and together they illustrate the interplay of evolved cognitive and motivational systems with mechanisms of rational choice that are able to choose adaptive strategies in uncertain, novel environments.

The basic cognition of jealousy: an evolutionary perspective

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon K. Maner ◽  
Todd K. Shackelford
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Basic Cognition ◽  
Direct Investigation

Penke and Asendorpf (European Journal Of Personality, vol 21, this issue) argue compellingly that research on jealousy would benefit from more direct investigation of cognitive processes, and report on research providing mixed evidence for sex differences in jealousy. We identify three limitations to the empirical approach utilised by Penke and Asendorpf, and highlight novel conceptual and methodological approaches for directly examining the basic cognitive mechanisms associated with jealousy and intrasexual rivalry. Investigating the basic cognition of intrasexual rivalry will help expand the scope of jealousy‐related research. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals Genetic similarity theory: Beyond kin selection

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Philippe Rushton ◽  
Robin J. H. Russell ◽  
Pamela A. Wells
Keyword(s):  
Kin Selection ◽  
Genetic Similarity ◽  
Similarity Theory ◽  
Genetic Similarity Theory

Personality and genetic similarity theory

1985 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
J PHILIPPERUSHTON ◽  
R RUSSELL ◽  
P WELLS
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Similarity ◽  
Similarity Theory ◽  
Genetic Similarity Theory

The selfish goal meets the selfish gene

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-154
Author(s):  
Steven L. Neuberg ◽  
Mark Schaller
Keyword(s):  
Human Cognition ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Motivational Systems ◽  
Selfish Gene ◽  
Selfish Genes ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractThe connection between selfish genes and selfish goals is not merely metaphorical. Many goals that shape contemporary cognition and behavior are psychological products of evolutionarily fundamental motivational systems and thus are phenotypic manifestations of genes. An evolutionary perspective can add depth and nuance to our understanding of “selfish goals” and their implications for human cognition and behavior.

MARITAL ASSORTMENT FOR GENETIC SIMILARITY

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
RONAEL E. ECKMAN ◽  
ROBERT WILLIAMS ◽  
CRAIG NAGOSHI
Keyword(s):  
Blood Group ◽  
Genetic Similarity ◽  
Similarity Theory ◽  
Random Mating ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Caucasian American ◽  
American Sample ◽  
Caucasian Sample ◽  
Genetic Similarity Theory ◽  
Spousal Similarity

The present study involved analyses of a Caucasian American sample (n=949) and a Japanese American sample (n=400) for factors supporting Genetic Similarity Theory (GST). The analyses found no evidence for the presence of genetic similarity between spouses in either sample for the blood group analyses of nine loci. All results indicated random mating for blood group genes. The results did not provide consistent substantial support to show that spousal similarity is correlated with the degree of genetic component of a trait for a set of seventeen individual differences variables, with only the Caucasian sample yielding significant correlations for this analysis. A third analysis examining the correlation between presence of spousal genetic similarity and spousal similarity on observable traits was not performed because spousal genetic similarity was not observed in either sample. The overall implication of the study is that GST is not supported as an explanation for spousal similarity in humans.

Il mobbing nella prospettiva cognitivo-evoluzionistica

PSICOBIETTIVO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Ciolfi Alessandra ◽  
Marta Lepore ◽  
Alessia Zangrilli
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Motivational Systems

- This article suggests an analysis of mobbing phenomenon according to the cognitive-evolutionary perspective, particularly in the viewpoint of the multimotivational theory. The syndromic consequences of the psychological inconvenience for the mobbing and the peculiarities of interpersonal motivational systems are described either on a theoretic level or on a clinic point of view.

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