Sex-age stereotyping: Social perceivers as lay adaptationists

Sng, Oliver; Williams, Keelah E. G.; Neuberg, Steven L.

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.12.001

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“…Building on early versions of this hypothesis (e.g. Buss & Craik, 1983;Goldberg, 1981), Buss (1991aBuss ( , 1996Buss ( , 2011 characterized our behavioural concepts for person perception as components of evolved mechanisms designed to (i) guide interpretation of others' actions in order to predict their future actions with greater-than-chance accuracy (Buss, 1996(Buss, , 2011Fiddick et al, 2016;Funder, 1995;Gangestad, Simpson, DiGeronimo, & Biek, 1992;Lukaszewski, in press;Sng, Williams, & Neuberg, 2020;Wood, Gardner, & Harms, 2015) and (ii) communicate strategically useful information about the behaviours of self and others (Buss, 2011;Dunbar, 1996;Gurven et al, 2013;Kallens, Dale, & Smaldino, 2018;Pinker, 2010;Smaldino et al, 2019;Sperber, 1996).…”

Section: Heuristic Trait Concepts Are Useful For Navigating Social Admentioning

confidence: 99%

An Adaptationist Framework for Personality Science

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The field of personality psychology aspires to construct an overarching theory of human nature and individual differences: one that specifies the psychological mechanisms that underpin both universal and variable aspects of thought, emotion, and behaviour. Here, we argue that the adaptationist toolkit of evolutionary psychology provides a powerful meta-theory for characterizing the psychological mechanisms that give rise to within-person, betweenperson, and cross-cultural variations. We first outline a mechanism-centred adaptationist framework for personality science, which makes a clear ontological distinction between (i) psychological mechanisms designed to generate behavioural decisions and (ii) heuristic trait concepts that function to perceive, describe, and influence others behaviour and reputation in everyday life. We illustrate the utility of the adaptationist framework by reporting three empirical studies. Each study supports the hypothesis that the anger programme-a putative emotional adaptation-is a behaviour-regulating mechanism whose outputs are described in the parlance of the person description factor called 'Agreeableness'. We conclude that the most productive way forward is to build theory-based models of specific psychological mechanisms, including their culturally evolved design features, until they constitute a comprehensive depiction of human nature and its multifaceted variations.

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Section: Heuristic Trait Concepts Are Useful For Navigating Social Admentioning

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An Adaptationist Framework for Personality Science

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“…Besides the selective activation of individual categories, research has demonstrated the relevance of considering the simultaneous activation of multiple categories. For instance, when both age and gender information is present, both interact to inform judgments about others and even the self (Ramos et al, 2016;Sng et al, 2019; specifically in a work place context: Duncan & Loretto, 2004;Tresh et al, 2019). Furthermore, stereotypes often overlap across multiple categories (e.g., Galinsky et al, 2013), which means that a certain trait, behavior, or characteristic may be typical of several different categories.…”

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Behavior as a stereotype cue: An European Portuguese pretest on age and gender stereotypes

Cipriano

Vaz

Rolho

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When it comes to the study of stereotypes, plenty of material can be of use. While personality traits tend to be the most commonly adopted, behavioral information can also be relevant, both in the study of stereotypes, as well as in other research fields (e.g., illusory correlations, memory and judgement and decision making). The purpose of this paper was to create a readily available list of behavioral sentences with stereotypicality ratings for both age (young to old) and gender (woman to man) categories, to be used in future studies. In two studies, participants judged age and gender stereotypicality of more than two hundred sentences in European Portuguese. Results were stable across both studies, using different methodologies (three alternative forced-choice task, in Study 1; bipolar rating scale, in Study 2). Relative frequencies for each choice, as well as average ratings, per behavior, are provided at the end.

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“…For example, women perceive faces with limbal rings as healthier than those without, informing subsequent STM decisions (Brown & Sacco, 2018). Within judgments emerge stereotypes about mating intentions (Sng et al 2020).…”

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Functional Inferences of Mating Orientations Through Body Fat and Sex-Typical Body Features

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Boykin²,

Sacco³

2021

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Identifying reproductive opportunities and intrasexual rivals has necessitated the evolution of sensitivity to features diagnostic of mate value. In determining the presence of good genes through physical features, individuals may additionally infer targets’ short- and long-term mating motives. This study tested how individuals perceive men and women’s mating intentions through physical features conducive to reproductive goals. Participants evaluated preferred mating strategies of male and female targets varying in size of sex-typical features (i.e., muscles or breasts) and adiposity. Greater adiposity connoted long-term mating interest. Large muscles and breasts connoted short-term mating interests. We frame results from an affordance management framework with respect to inferences regarding parental investment and intrasexual competition.

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Sex-age stereotyping: Social perceivers as lay adaptationists

Cited by 26 publications

References 41 publications

An Adaptationist Framework for Personality Science

An Adaptationist Framework for Personality Science

Behavior as a stereotype cue: An European Portuguese pretest on age and gender stereotypes

Functional Inferences of Mating Orientations Through Body Fat and Sex-Typical Body Features

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