Evolutionary Social Psychology

Neuberg, Steven L.; Kenrick, Douglas T.; Schaller, Mark

doi:10.1002/9780470561119.socpsy002021

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“…Indeed, human evolution has been driven in large part by selective pressures (e.g., threats and opportunities) associated with communal living (Chisholm, 1988;Neuberg et al, 2010). Therefore, it is no surprise that the ability to navigate social interactions in an appropriately flexible and goal-directed manner is a major component of psychological health.…”

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Interpersonal Problems Across Levels of the Psychopathology Hierarchy

Girard¹,

Wright²,

Beeney³

et al. 2017

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We examined the relationship between psychopathology and interpersonal problems in a sample of 825 clinical and community participants. Sixteen psychiatric diagnoses and five transdiagnostic dimensions were examined in relation to self-reported interpersonal problems. The structural summary method was used with the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems Circumplex Scales to examine interpersonal problem profiles for each diagnosis and dimension. We built a structural model of mental disorders including factors corresponding to detachment (avoidant personality, social phobia, major depression), internalizing (dependent personality, borderline personality, panic disorder, posttraumatic stress, major depression), disinhibition (antisocial personality, drug dependence, alcohol dependence, borderline personality), dominance (histrionic personality, narcissistic personality, paranoid personality), and compulsivity (obsessivecompulsive personality). All dimensions showed good interpersonal prototypicality (e.g., detachment was defined by a socially avoidant/nonassertive interpersonal profile) except for internalizing, which was diffusely associated with elevated interpersonal distress. The findings for individual disorders were largely consistent with the dimension that each disorder loaded on, with the exception of the internalizing and dominance disorders, which were interpersonally heterogeneous. These results replicate previous findings and provide novel insights into social dysfunction in psychopathology by wedding the power of hierarchical (i.e., dimensional) modeling and interpersonal circumplex assessment.

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Interpersonal Problems Across Levels of the Psychopathology Hierarchy

Girard¹,

Wright²,

Beeney³

et al. 2017

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“…Long-term pair-bonding, which is the predominant mating strategy in humans, is considered an adaptation to recurring problems related to child rearing (Neuberg, Kenrick, & Schaller, 2010). Negative emotional (and physical) reactions to romantic breakups are generally strong.…”

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Forgiving the unforgivable: Couples’ forgiveness and expected forgiveness of emotional and sexual infidelity from an error management theory perspective.

Bendixen

Kennair

Grøntvedt

2018

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

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From an Error Management Theory (EMT) perspective, we expect a negative forgiveness bias, in which one underestimates a romantic partner’s forgiveness following one’s own transgressions. The function would be to secure that the transgressions are fully mended through reparative behavior. The extent to which this bias is related to infidelity and type of infidelity has not yet been examined. Both parties in heterosexual couples (N = 92) responded independently to questionnaires about their reactions to hypothetical emotional and sexual infidelity scenarios: forgiveness of unfaithful partner’s hypothetical infidelity and likelihood of believing in cheated partner’s forgiveness. Question order was balanced for self and partner transgressions. The results suggest strong negative forgiveness bias effects. Participants reported less belief in their infidelity being forgiven compared with 2 different criteria of partner forgiveness (self-rated and expressed by partner). This negative forgiveness bias was present for both emotional and sexual infidelity scenarios, and for male and female participants. However, this bias was clearly less pronounced for emotionally unfaithful men. In addition, as predicted, relative to women, men imagining being victims of emotional infidelity perceived this to be less threatening to the relationship compared with being victim of sexual infidelity: They also expressed more forgiveness and less need of keeping distance. Need for revenge and likelihood of breaking up because of partner’s infidelity evinced no sex differentiated patterns. The study provides novel and deeper insights into how men and women perceive and react to the distress of emotional and sexual infidelity.

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“…This rise in evolutionary thinking reflects a growing interest across the psychological and behavioral sciences in understanding the influence of selection and other evolutionary forces on human psychology. This is evidenced by greater emphasis on evolutionary theories in leading handbooks of personality psychology (Buss, 2009;Buss & Penke, 2015) and social psychology (Buss & Kenrick, 1998;Neuberg, Kenrick, & Schaller, 2010), special issues dedicated to an evolutionary approach to the psychological sciences (e.g., Gangestad & Tybur, 2016), edited volumes and social psychology textbooks integrating evolutionary principles (Schaller, Simpson, & Kenrick, 2006;Simpson & Kenrick, 1997), and the publication of more evolutionarily oriented introductory psychology textbooks (e.g., Gray, 2010).…”

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Evolutionary psychology: A how-to guide.

Lewis

Al-Shawaf

Conroy‐Beam

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American Psychologist

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Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences are increasingly using evolutionary insights to test novel hypotheses about human psychology. Because evolutionary perspectives are relatively new to psychology and most researchers do not receive formal training in this endeavor, there remains ambiguity about "best practices" for implementing evolutionary principles. This article provides researchers with a practical guide for using evolutionary perspectives in their research programs and for avoiding common pitfalls in doing so. We outline essential elements of an evolutionarily informed research program at 3 central phases: (a) generating testable hypotheses, (b) testing empirical predictions, and (c) interpreting results. We elaborate key conceptual tools, including task analysis, psychological mechanisms, design features, universality, and cost-benefit analysis. Researchers can use these tools to generate hypotheses about universal psychological mechanisms, social and cultural inputs that amplify or attenuate the activation of these mechanisms, and cross-culturally variable behavior that these mechanisms can produce. We hope that this guide inspires theoretically and methodologically rigorous research that more cogently integrates knowledge from the psychological and life sciences.

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Evolutionary Social Psychology

Cited by 135 publications

References 279 publications

Interpersonal Problems Across Levels of the Psychopathology Hierarchy

Interpersonal Problems Across Levels of the Psychopathology Hierarchy

Forgiving the unforgivable: Couples’ forgiveness and expected forgiveness of emotional and sexual infidelity from an error management theory perspective.

Evolutionary psychology: A how-to guide.

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