A User’s Manual
AbstractWe created an online questionnaire, listed about 2,000 characters from 201 canonical British novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and asked respondents to select individual...
View ArticleConclusion
AbstractAfter two long chapters devoted to one novelist each, it would perhaps not come amiss to recall that our chief findings have reference to novels covering the whole period from Austen through...
View ArticleJane Austen, by the Numbers
AbstractJane Austen bulks larger than any other single author in the data set. Out of the total of 435 characters in the data set, 56, or about 13 percent, are from Austen novels. All of her characters...
View ArticleAgonistic Structure Differentiated by Sex
AbstractThe organization of characters into eight sets forms an implicit empirical hypothesis—the hypothesis that agonistic structure, differentiated by sex, is a fundamental shaping feature in the...
View ArticleAdaptive Function
AbstractArguments on the adaptive function of literature and the other arts have occupied more of the shared attention of evolutionary psychologists and evolutionary literary scholars than any other...
View ArticleDeterminate Meanings
AbstractLiterary theorists have reached no consensus about whether literary “meaning” can be objectively determined. Most critics have an at least half-conscious conviction that in reading a novel they...
View ArticleSexual Politics
AbstractBy obtaining quantitative results on readers’ responses to male and female characters, and by comparing those results with readers’ responses to good and bad characters and to major and minor...
View ArticleIntroduction
AbstractThe research described in this book is designed to help bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, we constructed a model...
View ArticleGenesee County REACH Windshield Tours: Enhancing Health Professionals...
AbstractThe Genesee County Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program is a community-based program designed to reduce African American infant mortality rates in Flint, Michigan....
View ArticleSocial and Environmental Conditions Intensifying Male Competition for...
AbstractSex differences in human mortality rates emerge from a complex interaction of genetic heritage and developmental environment, incorporating genetic, physiological, psychological, social, and...
View ArticleThe Evolved Psychology of Time Perspective
AbstractThis chapter is a review of the theoretical and research evidence of the premise that a more hedonistic time perspective is a facet of a fast Life History (LH) strategy and a stronger future...
View ArticleSexual and Emotional Aspects are Distinct Components of Infidelity and Unique...
AbstractAlthough there has been a tremendous amount of research attention on differences in reactions to sexual infidelity and emotional infidelity, there is a lack of information available as to how...
View ArticleFactors Influencing the Intended Likelihood of Exposing Sexual Infidelity
AbstractThere is a considerable body of literature on infidelity within romantic relationships. However, there is a gap in the scientific literature on factors influencing the likelihood of uninvolved...
View ArticleLife History Predicts Perceptions of Procedural Justice and Crime Reporting...
AbstractEvolutionary life history theory (LHT) is a powerful organizing framework central to the life sciences. Interest in biosocial criminology is growing, and adoption of LHT may accelerate progress...
View ArticleRelationships Among Disease, Social Support, and Perceived Health: A Lifespan...
AbstractWe examined the relationship between the cumulative presence of major disease (cancer, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension), social support, and self-reported general and...
View ArticleCell Phone Use Latency in a Midwestern USA University Population
AbstractCell phones are integral to the lives of contemporary university undergraduates in the USA. Observers documented cell phone use in public spaces within or immediately surrounding a large public...
View ArticlePerceptions of Attractiveness and Parental Dependency Mediate the...
AbstractKonrad Lorenz (Zietschrift fur Tierpsychologie, 5, 234–409, 1943) proposed that pedomorphic characteristics (Kindchenschema) in infants and parental caregiving responses to these...
View ArticleHealth Implications of an Immigration Raid: Findings from a Latino Community...
AbstractImmigration raids exemplify the reach of immigration law enforcement into the lives of Latino community members, yet little research characterizes the health effects of these raids. We examined...
View ArticleDefining and Distinguishing Sexual and Emotional Infidelity
AbstractResearchers studying interpersonal relationships often distinguish between “sexual infidelity” and “emotional infidelity.” Yet, it remains largely unclear whether and how individuals actually...
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