The Self-Regulation Effect of Fertility Status on Inbreeding Aversion: When Fertile, Disgust Increases more in Response to Descriptions of One's Own than of Others' Inbreeding

The Self-Regulation Effect of Fertility Status on Inbreeding Aversion: When Fertile, Disgust Increases more in Response to Descriptions of One's Own than of Others' Inbreeding

The ovulatory shift modulates emotions related to female sexuality. Because fertility status only affects the individual's own opportunity cost, the adaptive value of this shift is expected to stem from self-regulation. To test this assumption we asked women to contemplate various inbreeding de...

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Main Authors: Jan Antfolk, Debra Lieberman, Anna Albrecht, Pekka Santtila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-07-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200308

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