Evolutionary Psychology

Series EditorsTodd K. ShackelfordRochester, Michigan, USA

Viviana A. Weekes-ShackelfordRochester, Michigan, USA

The Springer Series in Evolutionary Psychology is the first series of volumes dedicated to this increasingly important discipline within psychology. The series will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of this field encompassing evo-lutionary theory, biology, cognitive psychology, anthropology, economics, computer science, and paleoarchaeology. It will explore the underlying psy-chological mechanisms, and information processing systems housed in the brain as well as the various triggers for their activation. Its scientific assump-tions rest on The concept that evolution is the only known causal process capable of creating complex organic mechanisms as are exhibited in human and animal life. Further, it seeks to show how information processing is adap-tively influenced by input from the environment. Overall, the series will ad-dress the range of functionally specialized evolved mechanisms, mediated by contextual circumstances, that become combined and integrated to produce manifest behavior. The Series will address key areas of research within the field, including sexual behavior; conflict between the sexes; parenting; kin-ship; cooperation and altruism; aggression; warfare; and status and prestige. A premier resource in evolutionary psychology for researchers, academics and students, this series will provide. the field continuing and comprehensive coverage of this high profile area.

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Virgil Zeigler-Hill • Lisa L. M. Welling Todd K. ShackelfordEditors

Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology

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EditorsVirgil Zeigler-HillDepartment of PsychologyOakland UniversityRochesterMichiganUSA

Lisa L. M. WellingDepartment of PsychologyOakland UniversityRochesterMichiganUSA

Todd K. ShackelfordDepartment of PsychologyOakland UniversityRochesterMichiganUSA

ISSN 2197-9898 ISSN 2197-9901 (electronic)Evolutionary PsychologyISBN 978-3-319-12696-8 ISBN 978-3-319-12697-5 (eBook)DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-12697-5

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Contents

Part I Introduction

1 How Can an Understanding of Evolutionary Psychology Contribute to Social Psychology? ........................................................................................... 3

Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Lisa L. M. Welling and Todd K. Shackelford

Part II Social Cognition

2 Social by Design: How Social Psychology Can Be More Cognitive Without Being Less Social ................................................................................... 15

Laurence Fiddick

3 Social Cognitive Development from an Evolutionary Perspective .................. 27 Karin Machluf and David F. Bjorklund

4 Modularity ............................................................................................................ 39 H. Clark Barrett

5 Evolutionary Psychology and Emotion: A Brief History.................................. 51 Timothy Ketelaar

6 Religiosity .............................................................................................................. 69 Lee A. Kirkpatrick

7 The Evolution of Social Cognition ...................................................................... 81 Jennifer Vonk, Molly McGuire and Zoe Johnson-Ulrich

Part III Self

8 The Emergent Self ................................................................................................ 97 Raymond L. Neubauer

9 Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Identity .................................................... 115 Justin H. Park and Florian van Leeuwen

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10 Self-Esteem ........................................................................................................... 127 Phillip S. Kavanagh and Hayley E. Scrutton

11 Your Sociometer Is Telling You Something: How the Self-Esteem System Functions to Resolve Important Interpersonal Dilemmas ............................... 137

Danu Anthony Stinson, Jessica J. Cameron and Eric T. Huang

12 Self-Deception ....................................................................................................... 149 William von Hippel

13 Evolutionary Cyberpsychology 2.0: Revisiting Some Old Predictions and Posting Some New Ones in the Age of Facebook ....................................... 159

Jared R. Piazza and Gordon P. D. Ingram

Part IV Attitudes and Attitudinal Change

14 Attitudes: An Evolutionary Perspective ............................................................. 177 Charles G. Lord, Sarah E. Hill, Christopher J. Holland,

Kristin Yoke and Tong Lu

15 Conformity: Definitions, Types, and Evolutionary Grounding ....................... 189 Julie C. Coultas and Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen

16 The Darwinian Mystique? Synthesizing Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism ....................................................................................................... 203

Sylis C. A. Nicolas and Lisa L. M. Welling

17 Nothing in Human Behavior Makes Sense Except in the Light of Culture: Shared Interests of Social Psychology and Cultural Evolution ....................... 215

Thomas J. H. Morgan, Catharine P. Cross and Luke E. Rendell

Part V Interpersonal Processes

18 Prosocial Behavior ............................................................................................... 231 Dennis L. Krebs

19 Groups ................................................................................................................... 243 Tatsuya Kameda, Mark Vugt and R. Scott Tindale

20 Why Do Humans Help Their Friends? Proximal and Ultimate Hypotheses from Evolutionary Theory .................................................................................. 255

Daniel Hruschka, Joseph Hackman and Shane Macfarlan

21 Evolutionary and Social Psychological Perspectives on Human Cooperation .......................................................................................................... 267

Mike Prentice and Kennon M. Sheldon

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22 Language and Communication ........................................................................... 279 Thomas C. Scott-Phillips

23 The Evolution of Stereotypes .............................................................................. 291 Jacqui Hutchison and Douglas Martin

24 A Biosocial Model of Status in Face-To-Face Groups ....................................... 303 Allan Mazur

Part VI Mating and Relationships

25 Attraction and Human Mating ........................................................................... 319 Anthony C. Little

26 Evolutionary Developmental Perspectives on Male Androphilia in Humans ............................................................................................................. 333

Paul L. Vasey and Doug P. VanderLaan

27 Familial Relationships ......................................................................................... 347 Catherine Salmon

28 A Life History Approach to the Dynamics of Social Selection ......................... 363 Aurelio José Figueredo, Emily Anne Patch and

Carlos Ernesto Gómez Ceballos

Part VII Violence and Aggression

29 War and Aggression ............................................................................................. 375 John M. Friend and Bradley Thayer

30 Social Competition and Bullying: An Adaptive Socioecological Perspective ............................................................................................................ 387

Anthony A. Volk, Victoria Della Cioppa, Megan Earle and Ann H. Farrell

31 Dangerous Terrorists as Devoted Actors ............................................................ 401 Scott Atran and Hammad Sheikh

Part VIII Health and Psychological Adjustment

32 The Parasite-Stress Theory of Sociality and the Behavioral Immune System ................................................................................................................... 419

Randy Thornhill and Corey L. Fincher

33 Happiness .............................................................................................................. 439 Bjørn Grinde

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Part IX Individual Differences

34 Evolutionary Game Theory and Personality ..................................................... 451 Pieter van den Berg and Franz J. Weissing

35 Evolutionary Perspectives of Personality .......................................................... 465 Jon A. Sefcek, Candace J. Black and Pedro S. Wolf

36 The Roots of Narcissus: Old and New Models of the Evolution of Narcissism ......................................................................................................... 479

Nicholas S. Holtzman and M. Brent Donnellan

Part X Conclusion

37 Integrating Evolutionary Psychology and Social Psychology: Reflections and Future Directions .......................................................................................... 493

Lisa L. M. Welling, Virgil Zeigler-Hill and Todd K. Shackelford

Index ............................................................................................................................ 503

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Contributors

Scott Atran Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Jean Nicod-Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

H. Clark Barrett Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Pieter van den Berg Theoretical Biology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

David F. Bjorklund Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

Candace J. Black Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Ethology and Evo-lutionary Psychology, Tucson, AZ, USA

Jessica J. Cameron Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Carlos Ernesto Gómez Ceballos Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Victoria Della Cioppa Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

Julie C. Coultas Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK

Centre for the study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Catharine P Cross School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, Fife, UK

M. Brent Donnellan Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Sta-tion, TX, USA

Megan Earle Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

Ann H. Farrell Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

Laurence Fiddick School of Psychology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Aurelio Jos é Figueredo Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

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Corey L. Fincher Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

John M. Friend Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’I at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

Bjørn Grinde Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Nydalen, Oslo, NORWAY

Joseph Hackman School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State Univer-sity, Tempe, AZ, USA

Sarah E. Hill Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Christopher J. Holland Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Nicholas S. Holtzman Department of Psychology, Georgia Southern University, States-boro, GA, USA

Daniel Hruschka School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State Univer-sity, Tempe, AZ, USA

Eric T. Huang Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Jacqui Hutchison School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, UK

Gordon P. D. Ingram School of Society, Enterprise, and Environment, Bath Spa Uni-versity, Bath, UK

Zoe Johnson-Ulrich Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

Tatsuya Kameda Department of Social Psychology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Phillip S. Kavanagh School of Psychology, Social Work, and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Timothy Ketelaar Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cru-ces, NM, USA

Lee A. Kirkpatrick Department of Psychology, College of William and Mary, Williams-burg, VA, USA

Dennis L. Krebs Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany

Florian van Leeuwen Dynamique du Langage, University of Lyon, Lyon, France

Anthony C. Little School of Natural Sciences, Psychology, Stirling University, Stirling, Scotland, UK

Charles G. Lord Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, USA

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Tong Lu Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Shane Macfarlan Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Karin Machluf Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

Douglas Martin School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, UK

Allan Mazur Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA

Molly McGuire Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

Thomas J. H Morgan Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

Raymond L. Neubauer Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Texas at Austin, AustinTX, USA

Sylis C. A. Nicolas Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

Justin H. Park School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Emily Anne Patch Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Jared R. Piazza Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Mike Prentice Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

Luke E Rendell Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, Fife, UK

Catherine Salmon Department of Psychology, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, USA

Thomas C. Scott-Phillips School of Psychology, Philosophy, & Language Sciences, Durham University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Hayley E. Scrutton School of Psychology, Social Work, and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Jon A. Sefcek Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

Todd K. Shackelford Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

Hammad Sheikh John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA

Kennon M. Sheldon Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

Danu Anthony Stinson Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Bradley Thayer Department of Political Science, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA

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Randy Thornhill Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

R. Scott Tindale Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Doug P. VanderLaan Gender Identity Service, Child, Youth and Family Services, Cen-tre for Addiction and Mental Health, Beamish Family Wing, Intergenerational Wellness Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

Paul L. Vasey Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

Anthony A. Volk Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, St. Catha-rines, ON, Canada

Jennifer Vonk Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

Mark Van Vugt Department of Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Franz J. Weissing Theoretical Biology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Lisa L. M. Welling Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

Hippel William von School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA

Pedro S. Wolf Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Humanities Gradu-ate School Building, Rondebosch, South Africa

Kristin Yoke Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Virgil Zeigler-Hill Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA