Passion and Compassion: Psychology of Kin Relations within and Beyond the Family
Family is special. People avoid sexual contact with close relatives, but at the same time are highly beneficent toward them. Such discriminatory behavior is guided by a set of psychological mechanisms, heuristics that facilitate evolutionarily adaptive behavior most of the time but may lead to overp...
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| author | Ackerman, Joshua Park, Justin H. |
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| description | Family is special. People avoid sexual contact with close relatives, but at the same time are highly beneficent toward them. Such discriminatory behavior is guided by a set of psychological mechanisms, heuristics that facilitate evolutionarily adaptive behavior most of the time but may lead to overperception of kinship under specific circumstances. In this chapter, we describe psychological mechanisms of kin recognition in sexual and altruistic contexts, and we discuss the extent to which these mechanisms may influence close relationships between unrelated individuals, resulting in an experience of “psychological kinship.” We suggest that friendship may provide a context within which overinclusive kin recognition is especially likely to occur, especially among women. We also identify questions for future research, including when men might be especially prone to overperceiving kinship. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/776192022-09-26T15:29:16Z Passion and Compassion: Psychology of Kin Relations within and Beyond the Family Ackerman, Joshua Park, Justin H. Sloan School of Management Ackerman, Joshua M. Ackerman, Joshua Family is special. People avoid sexual contact with close relatives, but at the same time are highly beneficent toward them. Such discriminatory behavior is guided by a set of psychological mechanisms, heuristics that facilitate evolutionarily adaptive behavior most of the time but may lead to overperception of kinship under specific circumstances. In this chapter, we describe psychological mechanisms of kin recognition in sexual and altruistic contexts, and we discuss the extent to which these mechanisms may influence close relationships between unrelated individuals, resulting in an experience of “psychological kinship.” We suggest that friendship may provide a context within which overinclusive kin recognition is especially likely to occur, especially among women. We also identify questions for future research, including when men might be especially prone to overperceiving kinship. 2013-03-12T14:41:18Z 2013-03-12T14:41:18Z 2011-05 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 9780195396690 0195396693 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77619 Park, Justin H., and Joshua M. Ackerman. “Passion and Compassion: Psychology of Kin Relations Within and Beyond the Family.” The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology. Ed. Todd K. Shackelford & Catherine A. Salmon. Oxford University Press, 2011. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195396690.013.0019 Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press Prof. Ackerman via Alex Caracuzzo |
| spellingShingle | Ackerman, Joshua Park, Justin H. Passion and Compassion: Psychology of Kin Relations within and Beyond the Family |
| title | Passion and Compassion: Psychology of Kin Relations within and Beyond the Family |
| title_full | Passion and Compassion: Psychology of Kin Relations within and Beyond the Family |
| title_fullStr | Passion and Compassion: Psychology of Kin Relations within and Beyond the Family |
| title_full_unstemmed | Passion and Compassion: Psychology of Kin Relations within and Beyond the Family |
| title_short | Passion and Compassion: Psychology of Kin Relations within and Beyond the Family |
| title_sort | passion and compassion psychology of kin relations within and beyond the family |
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