The predator-avoidance effect: an evolved constraint on emerging theory of mind

Ellis, Bruce J.; Jordan, Ashley C.; Grotuss, Jason; Csinády, Adriána; Keenan, Thomas; Bjorklund, David F.

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.02.005

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“…La psicología evolucionista propone que algunas de las características del comportamiento y la cognición humana se explican mejor teniendo en cuenta factores evolutivos y adaptativos (MacLean et al, 2012). Esto se evidencia en habilidades tales como el reconocimiento de rostros (Freiwald et al, 2016), los comportamientos de cortejo (Miklousic, 2012), la teoría de la mente (Ellis et al, 2014), la organización social (Grabo & van Vugt, 2016) y la activación emocional (Frijda, 2016), entre otras.…”

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Aspectos metodológicos para el estudio de la violencia de pareja en el contexto de la pandemia por COVID-19

Aguilar-Pardo¹

2022

Violencia De Pareja en El Contexto De Pandemia Por COVID-19. Implicaciones Clínicas

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El comportamiento humano es una característica emergente de los sistemas biológicos y sociales de nuestra especie. Para su estudio, es conveniente establecer la posición del Homo sapiens dentro del reino animal, en lo referente a capacidades mentales y plasticidad comportamental. Reconociendo las generalidades del comportamiento animal, se afrontan mejor las particularidades del comportamiento humano, cuestión que atañe a todas las ciencias sociales. La perspectiva histórico-evolutiva permite abordar las principales presiones ecológicas que facilitaron la evolución de diferentes tipos de comportamiento, componente esencial del fenotipo, el que permite a los individuos sobrevivir y reproducirse en diferentes ambientes, haciendo así que la vida prospere en el planeta (Guillén-Salazar, 2005).

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Aspectos metodológicos para el estudio de la violencia de pareja en el contexto de la pandemia por COVID-19

Aguilar-Pardo¹

2022

Violencia De Pareja en El Contexto De Pandemia Por COVID-19. Implicaciones Clínicas

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Adaptations to Predators and Prey

Barrett

2015

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

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Predator‐prey interactions have shaped our evolutionary lineage since long before we were human. Predation has had a profound influence on the evolution of our perceptual, emotional, cognitive, and social systems, stretching back to the origin of vertebrates. More recently, hunting has shaped the evolution of the hominin lineage, including the evolution of big brains, tool use, and cultural transmission in our genus. This chapter reviews the many influences predator‐prey interactions have had on human psychology. A survey of the evolutionary history of predator‐prey interactions in our lineage is followed by reviews of the influence of predator‐prey interactions on various domains of human psychology including perception, foraging, emotions, learning, inference, and reasoning. The chapter concludes with suggestions for future research on the influence of predator‐prey interactions on human psychology and behavior.

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Human-animal interactions from an evolutionary perspective: Symbioses as extended ultrasociality

Steklis

Peñaherrera-Aguirre

et al. 2023

Human-Animal Interactions

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The field of human-animal interactions (HAI) is focused primarily on human-companion animal relationships, especially the impact of such relationships on human health. Here, we demonstrate how a wider, integrative approach, consisting of an evolutionary framework, provides new insights into the varieties of HAIs and their emergence and significance during human evolution. Along with other HAI researchers, we show that those HAIs which develop into interrelationships can best be treated as ecological symbioses that involve fitness interdependence among the symbionts and entail the evolution of phenotypic traits that support the adaptive features of the symbionts. We present the novel idea that the formation of mutualistic symbiotic relationships through the process of domestication depended on the prior evolution of hominin hypersociality and ultrasociality in modern humans. Hypersociality was characterized by high levels of social cooperation and social tolerance that became increasingly important for human social life and cooperative hunting. The further development of ultrasociality in modern humans consisted of the development of large-scale (i.e., beyond the hunting band) cooperative social networks of genetically unrelated individuals. This depended on the evolution of further enhancements in socio-cognitive skills, especially representational abilities (e.g., theory of mind), symbolic capacities, and formation of tribal societies with complex social institutions. These modern cognitive and socio-cultural features were made possible by significant brain reorganization during the past 60,000 years. Tribal social institutions were founded on normative moral sentiments and behavior and regulated and ultimately reduced levels of lethal violence. The extension of fitness interdependent, cooperative relationships to large networks of unrelated individuals (i.e., ultrasociality), we argue, was foundational in modern humans to the formation of mutualistic symbioses (i.e., process of domestication) with other animals. Because they are an outgrowth of ultrasociality, we suggest that the term “extended ultrasociality” appropriately describes human interrelationships with domesticated animals. We further suggest that these human-animal interrelationships are unique in that they become imbued with and immersed in our symbolic world, as is demonstrated by the earliest representational art in caves after 50,000 years when enhanced modern human representational and symbolic capacities were evolving. An evolutionary framework invites new questions and avenues for research.

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The predator-avoidance effect: an evolved constraint on emerging theory of mind

Cited by 4 publications

References 30 publications

Aspectos metodológicos para el estudio de la violencia de pareja en el contexto de la pandemia por COVID-19

Aspectos metodológicos para el estudio de la violencia de pareja en el contexto de la pandemia por COVID-19

Adaptations to Predators and Prey

Human-animal interactions from an evolutionary perspective: Symbioses as extended ultrasociality

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