Our grandmothers' legacy: Challenges faced by female ancestors leave traces in modern women's same-sex relationships

TA Reynolds - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2022 - Springer
Investigations of women's same-sex relationships present a paradoxical pattern, with
women generally disliking competition, yet also exhibiting signs of intrasexual rivalry. The …

[HTML][HTML] Disgust in the mating context–Choosing the best and the least bad self-presentation option in a date simulation game

MM Stefanczyk, D Conroy-Beam, B Ujma… - Telematics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In order to achieve interpersonal goals, people manipulate their self-image: they manifest
their most favourable traits and avoid exhibiting the most aversive ones. Disgust is one of the …

Six dimensions of sexual disgust

CL Crosby, PK Durkee, CM Meston, DM Buss - Personality and individual …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sexual disgust is an emotion hypothesized to deter individuals from engaging in sexual
activities that are probabilistically detrimental to fitness. Existing measures of sexual disgust …

Context, environment, and learning in evolutionary psychology

L Al-Shawaf, DMG Lewis, YS Wehbe… - Encyclopedia of …, 2021 - Springer
How is an altruistic act favored by natural selection if it incurs a cost to the actor? As the
behavior would have a detrimental impact on the actor's reproductive success, the genes …

In obsessive-compulsive disorder, autogenous and reactive obsessions are differentiated by disgust and mating strategies

BJ Mitchell, L Al-Shawaf, KG Coifman - Personality and Individual …, 2024 - Elsevier
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been conceptualized as the product of
dysfunctional harm prevention systems accompanied by heightened negative emotions like …

The evolution of disgust for pathogen detection and avoidance

JK Hlay, G Albert, C Batres, G Richardson, C Placek… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The behavioral immune system posits that disgust functions to protect animals from
pathogen exposure. Therefore, cues of pathogen risk should be a primary driver influencing …

Disgust sensitivity predicts sociosexuality across cultures

JK Hlay, G Albert, C Batres, K Waldron… - Evolution and Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
Restricted sociosexuality has been linked to sexual disgust, suggesting that decreasing
sexual behavior may be a pathogen avoidance technique. Using the behavioral immune …

The products of evolution: Conceptual distinctions, evidentiary criteria, and empirical examples

L Al-Shawaf, DMG Lewis, N Barbaro… - The Sage handbook of …, 2020 - torrossa.com
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to the exclusion of the ants' own offspring (Thomas and Elmes, 1998). The emerald …

Should I stay or should I go: Individual differences in response to romantic dealmakers and dealbreakers

PK Jonason, KP White, L Al-Shawaf - Personality and Individual …, 2020 - Elsevier
People glean key information about their potential mates during the early phases of
courtship. Here (N= 261) we investigated how much learning “dealmaker”(ie, positive) and …

Observed Aspects of Mate Value and Sociosexuality Account for Mate Preferences: Data from a Large, Representative Study from Czechia

Z Csajbók, Z Štěrbová, PK Jonason, L Jelínková… - Archives of Sexual …, 2024 - Springer
While there is substantial research on what people want in their romantic and sexual
partners, much of this work focuses on WEIRD, youthful samples, fails to consider the role of …