期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (1)
When people get ill, they naturally want to restore health through medical interventions. Here I model a situation in which individuals can psychologi......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (4)
Honest signalling theory suggests that humans and chimpanzees can extract socially relevant information relating to personality from the faces of thei......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (1)
Humans are social animals that rely on different ways to interact with each other. The COVID-19 pandemic strongly changed our communication strategies......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (3)
Alloparenting, wherein people provide care to children who are not their biological offspring, is a key aspect of human child-rearing. In the Pacific,......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (1)
Support from grandparents plays a role in mothers' perinatal mental health. However, previous research on maternal mental health has mainly focused on......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (2)
Together with language, music is perhaps the most distinctive behavioral trait of the human species. Different hypotheses have been proposed to explai......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (4)
Humans share with other mammals and primates many social motivations and emotions, but they are also much more cooperative than even their closest pri......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (3)
The amygdala is a hub in brain networks that supports social life and fear processing. Compared with other apes, humans have a relatively larger later......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (3)
Culture of honor means that individuals deter others by signaling their commitment to violent retaliation. We develop a multilevel explanation of cros......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (1)
There is a popular idea that archaic humans commonly used wooden clubs as their weapons. This is not based on archaeological finds, which are minimal ......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (3)
This research provides evidence regarding the causal effect of group conformity on task performance in stable and variable environments. Drawing on st......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (4)
Women's capacity to reproduce varies over the life span, and developmental goals such as family formation are age-graded and shaped by social norms ab......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (2)
This study investigates the determinants of paternal investment by birth fathers and stepfathers. Inclusive fitness theory predicts higher parental in......
期刊: HUMAN NATURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE, 2023; 34 (4)
It has been theorized that the contagion of behaviors may be related to social cognitive abilities, but empirical findings are inconsistent. We record......