Fear and anxiety responses have been instrumental in the survival of both human beings and other species throughout the course of evolution. Humans and animals have often experienced similar hazards to their existence and, throughnatural selection, have come to share many similar, adaptive fears. Fo...
Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff If people didn’t feel fear, they wouldn’t be able to protect themselves from legitimate threats. Fear is a vital response to physical and emotional danger that has been pivotal throughout human evolution, but especially in ancient times when men and women re...
I used concentrated changes tests to look for evidence of coevolution between flightiness and dichotomous traits. Flightiness evolved multiple times and some clades were flightier than others. Flightiness was more likely to evolve in omnivorous/carnivorous species and in cooperatively breeding species....
While traditional social science theories have explained hara... LEO Kennair,M Bendixen - 《Evolution & Human Behavior》 被引量: 39发表: 2012年 Sociosexuality and Romantic Partner Choice In three studies, we explored how individual differences in sociosexual orientation systematically relate to the ...
We highlight how such patterns of fear acquisition, retention, and rapid re-triggering play an important role in animal ecology and evolution and outline parallels between the neophobic phenotype in fishes and dimensions of post-traumatic stress in humans....
Gardner reveals his nonscientific background on occasion, such as when he states, “Evolution has two driving forces: natural selection and mutation,” not quite connecting that these are two sequential components of the same driving force. But these are nitpicky criticisms, and certainly Gardner'...
et al. Reproductive output of old polygynous males is limited by seminal fluid, not sperm number. bioRxiv, 2024.2007.2002.601670. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.02.601670 (2024). Bonduriansky, R. The evolution of male mate choice in insects: a synthesis of ideas and evidence. Biol. Rev....
According to the fear-then-relief technique of social influence, people who experience anxiety whose source is abruptly withdrawn usually respond positively to various requests and commands addressed to them. This effect is usually explained by the fact that fear invokes a specific program of action,...
could be overcast. In notes for his lectures to his Econ 135 class at Berkeley (“The History of Economic Growth,” shared in his terrific newsletter,Grasping Reality) he begins with an explanation of neoliberalism [also explainedhere– source of the image above], then considers what might be...
This lack of effect can be explained in numerous ways. First, our study consisted of a no-choice experiment, where neither males or females were allowed to choose between different individuals. Their choice was limited to when to start mating and for how long, traits which may have not ...