Over the last decades, theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of the affective
sciences have proliferated rather than converged due to differing assumptions about what …

Evolutionary biology provides a crucial foundation for medicine and behavioral science that
has been missing from psychiatry. Its absence helps to explain slow progress; its advent …

Women have consistently higher levels of disgust than men. This sex difference is
substantial in magnitude, highly replicable, emerges with diverse assessment methods, and …

While negative perceptions of insects and other terrestrial arthropods (hereafter referred to
collectively as 'insects') are widespread around the world, the underlying causes of this …

Due to the environmental benefits of entomophagy, a growing field of research is now
investigating the factors that predict people's willingness to eat insects. In the current studies …

What role do emotions play in moral cognition? Leading accounts argue that a multiplicity of
emotions, including guilt, outrage, shame, empathy, and even disgust, play an essential role …

Social emotions are hypothesized to be adaptations designed by selection to solve adaptive
problems pertaining to social valuation—the disposition to attend to, associate with, and aid …

Evolutionary research on emotion is increasingly converging on the idea that emotions can
be understood as superordinate coordination mechanisms. Despite its plausibility and …

Cultural transmission biases such as prestige are thought to have been a primary driver in
sha** the dynamics of human cultural evolution. However, few empirical studies have …

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to the exclusion of the ants' own offspring (Thomas and Elmes, 1998). The emerald …