Self-Reported Availability of Kinship Cues during Childhood is Associated with Kin-Directed Behavior to Parents in Adulthood
Autor: | Anna Albrecht, Jan Antfolk, Helena Lindqvist, Pekka Santtila |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2014 |
Předmět: |
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Male Parents Social Psychology Kin recognition media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:BF1-990 Kin selection Developmental psychology Consanguinity Behavioral Neuroscience Discrimination Psychological Similarity (psychology) Kinship otorhinolaryngologic diseases Humans Inbreeding avoidance Family Cooperative Behavior Parent-Child Relations Child media_common Internet Data Collection Inclusive fitness Recognition Psychology General Medicine social sciences Behavioral similarity Certainty Biological Evolution Phenotype lcsh:Psychology Incest behavior and behavior mechanisms Regression Analysis Female Genetic Fitness Self Report Cues Factor Analysis Statistical Psychology Social psychology |
Zdroj: | Evolutionary Psychology, Vol 12 (2014) Scopus-Elsevier |
ISSN: | 1474-7049 |
Popis: | Reliable recognition of kin is an important factor in modulating kin-directed behaviors. For example, in selectively directing cooperative behavior to kin and diverting sexual interest away from them, kin first need to be recognized as such. Although an increasing number of studies have examined what information is employed in recognizing siblings and children, less is known about the information children employ in identifying their parents. In a web-based survey, we asked 702 Finnish undergraduate and graduate students to report the availability of a number of possible kinship cues during their childhood and youth. After factorization of the responses, we found that the reported amount of parental support, phenotypic similarity, and behavioral similarity generally predicted subjective certainty in relatedness and kin-directed behavior (i.e., cooperative behavior and inbreeding aversion) to parents in adulthood. Although the data suffer from their retrospective nature, the present study provides potentially useful information about kin-recognition of parents. |
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