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Pathogens, Personality, and Culture: Disease Prevalence Predicts Worldwide Variability in Sociosexuality, Extraversion, and Openness to Experience
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association 2008, Vol. 95, No. 1, 212–221 0022-3514/08/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.95.1.212 Pathogens, Personality, and Culture: Disease Prevalence Predicts Worldwide Variability in Sociosexuality, Extraversion, and Openness to Experience Mark Schaller and Damian R. Murray University of British Columbia Previous research has documented cross-cultural differences in personality traits, but the origins of those differences remain unknown. The authors investigate the possibility that these cultural differences can be traced, in part, to regional differences in the prevalence in infectious diseases. Three specific hypotheses are deduced, predicting negative relationships between disease prevalence and (a) unrestricted sociosex- uality, (b) extraversion, and (c) openness to experience. These hypotheses were tested empirically with methods that employed epidemiological atlases in conjunction with personality data collected from individuals in dozens of countries worldwide. Results were consistent with all three hypotheses: In regions that have historically suffered from high levels of infectious diseases, people report lower mean levels of sociosexuality, extraversion, and openness. Alternative explanations are addressed, and possible underlying mechanisms are discussed. Keywords: culture, disease prevalence, extraversion, openness to experience, sociosexuality People’s personalities differ, and some of that individual vari- For example, Schmitt (2005) and his collaborators in the Inter- ability is geographically clumped. But why is that so? How are we national Sexuality Description Project assessed worldwide vari- to understand the origins of regional differences in personality? A ability in chronic tendencies toward either a “restricted” or “unre- complete response to that question will surely require attention to stricted” sociosexual style. -
Feeling and Decision Making: the Appraisal-Tendency Framework
Feelings and Consumer Decision Making: Extending the Appraisal-Tendency Framework The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Lerner, Jennifer S., Seunghee Han, and Dacher Keltner. 2007. “Feelings and Consumer Decision Making: Extending the Appraisal- Tendency Framework.” Journal of Consumer Psychology 17 (3) (July): 181–187. doi:10.1016/s1057-7408(07)70027-x. Published Version 10.1016/S1057-7408(07)70027-X Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37143006 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA Feelings and Consumer Decision Making 1 Running head: FEELINGS AND CONSUMER DECISION MAKING Feelings and Consumer Decision Making: The Appraisal-Tendency Framework Seunghee Han, Jennifer S. Lerner Carnegie Mellon University Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley Invited article for the Journal of Consumer Psychology Draft Date: January 3rd, 2006 Correspondence Address: Seunghee Han Department of Social and Decision Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-268-2869, Fax: 412-268-6938 Email: [email protected] Feelings and Consumer Decision Making 2 Abstract This article presents the Appraisal Tendency Framework (ATF) (Lerner & Keltner, 2000, 2001; Lerner & Tiedens, 2006) as a basis for predicting the influence of specific emotions on consumer decision making. In particular, the ATF addresses how and why specific emotions carry over from past situations to color future judgments and choices. -
Applying a Discrete Emotion Perspective
AROUSAL OR RELEVANCE? APPLYING A DISCRETE EMOTION PERSPECTIVE TO AGING AND AFFECT REGULATION SARA E. LAUTZENHISER Bachelor of Science in Psychology Ashland University May 2015 Submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree MASTER OF ARTS IN PSYCHOLOGY At the CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY May 2019 We hereby approve this thesis For SARA E. LAUTZENHISER Candidate for the Master of Arts in Experimental Research Psychology For the Department of Psychology And CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY’S College of Graduate Studies by __________________________ Eric Allard, Ph.D. __________________________ Department & Date __________________________ Andrew Slifkin, Ph. D. (Methodologist) __________________________ Department & Date __________________________ Conor McLennan, Ph.D. __________________________ Department & Date __________________________ Robert Hurley, Ph. D. __________________________ Department & Date Student’s Date of Defense May 10, 2019 AROUSAL OR RELEVANCE? APPLYING A DISCRETE EMOTION PERSPECTIE TO AGING AND AFFECT REGULATION SARA E. LAUTZENHISER ABSTRACT While research in the psychology of human aging suggests that older adults are quite adept at managing negative affect, emotion regulation efficacy may depend on the discrete emotion elicited. For instance, prior research suggests older adults are more effective at dealing with emotional states that are more age-relevant/useful and lower in intensity (i.e., sadness) relative to less relevant/useful or more intense (i.e., anger). The goal of the present study was to probe this discrete emotions perspective further by addressing the relevance/intensity distinction within a broader set of negative affective states (i.e., fear and disgust, along with anger and sadness). Results revealed that participants reported relatively high levels of the intended emotion for each video, while also demonstrating significant affective recovery after the attentional refocusing task. -
DISGUST: Features and SAWCHUK and Clinical Implications
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 7, 2005, pp. 932-962 OLATUNJIDISGUST: Features AND SAWCHUK and Clinical Implications DISGUST: CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES, SOCIAL MANIFESTATIONS, AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS BUNMI O. OLATUNJI University of Massachusetts CRAIG N. SAWCHUK University of Washington School of Medicine Emotions have been a long–standing cornerstone of research in social and clinical psychology. Although the systematic examination of emotional processes has yielded a rather comprehensive theoretical and scientific literature, dramatically less empirical attention has been devoted to disgust. In the present article, the na- ture, experience, and other associated features of disgust are outlined. We also re- view the domains of disgust and highlight how these domains have expanded over time. The function of disgust in various social constructions, such as cigarette smoking, vegetarianism, and homophobia, is highlighted. Disgust is also becoming increasingly recognized as an influential emotion in the onset, maintenance, and treatment of various phobic states, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, and eating disorders. In comparison to the other emotions, disgust offers great promise for fu- ture social and clinical research efforts, and prospective studies designed to improve our understanding of disgust are outlined. The nature, structure, and function of emotions have a rich tradition in the social and clinical psychology literature (Cacioppo & Gardner, 1999). Although emotion theorists have contested over the number of discrete emotional states and their operational definitions (Plutchik, 2001), most agree that emotions are highly influential in organizing thought processes and behavioral tendencies (Izard, 1993; John- Preparation of this manuscript was supported in part by NIMH NRSA grant 1F31MH067519–1A1 awarded to Bunmi O. -
About Emotions There Are 8 Primary Emotions. You Are Born with These
About Emotions There are 8 primary emotions. You are born with these emotions wired into your brain. That wiring causes your body to react in certain ways and for you to have certain urges when the emotion arises. Here is a list of primary emotions: Eight Primary Emotions Anger: fury, outrage, wrath, irritability, hostility, resentment and violence. Sadness: grief, sorrow, gloom, melancholy, despair, loneliness, and depression. Fear: anxiety, apprehension, nervousness, dread, fright, and panic. Joy: enjoyment, happiness, relief, bliss, delight, pride, thrill, and ecstasy. Interest: acceptance, friendliness, trust, kindness, affection, love, and devotion. Surprise: shock, astonishment, amazement, astound, and wonder. Disgust: contempt, disdain, scorn, aversion, distaste, and revulsion. Shame: guilt, embarrassment, chagrin, remorse, regret, and contrition. All other emotions are made up by combining these basic 8 emotions. Sometimes we have secondary emotions, an emotional reaction to an emotion. We learn these. Some examples of these are: o Feeling shame when you get angry. o Feeling angry when you have a shame response (e.g., hurt feelings). o Feeling fear when you get angry (maybe you’ve been punished for anger). There are many more. These are NOT wired into our bodies and brains, but are learned from our families, our culture, and others. When you have a secondary emotion, the key is to figure out what the primary emotion, the feeling at the root of your reaction is, so that you can take an action that is most helpful. . -
Bodily Maps of Emotions
Bodily maps of emotions Lauri Nummenmaaa,b,c,1, Enrico Glereana, Riitta Harib,1, and Jari K. Hietanend aDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science and bBrain Research Unit, O. V. Lounasmaa Laboratory, School of Science, Aalto University, FI-00076, Espoo, Finland; cTurku PET Centre, University of Turku, FI-20521, Turku, Finland; and dHuman Information Processing Laboratory, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, FI-33014, Tampere, Finland Contributed by Riitta Hari, November 27, 2013 (sent for review June 11, 2013) Emotions are often felt in the body, and somatosensory feedback independence of bodily topographies across emotions. We pro- has been proposed to trigger conscious emotional experiences. pose that consciously felt emotions are associated with culturally Here we reveal maps of bodily sensations associated with different universal, topographically distinct bodily sensations that may emotions using a unique topographical self-report method. In five support the categorical experience of different emotions. n = experiments, participants ( 701) were shown two silhouettes of Results bodies alongside emotional words, stories, movies, or facial expres- sions. They were asked to color the bodily regions whose activity We ran five experiments, with 36–302 participants in each. In they felt increasing or decreasing while viewing each stimulus. experiment 1, participants reported bodily sensations associated “ ” “ ” Different emotions were consistently associated with statistically with six basic and seven nonbasic ( complex ) emotions, as separable bodily sensation maps across experiments. These maps well as a neutral state, all described by the corresponding emo- were concordant across West European and East Asian samples. tion words. Fig. 2 shows the bodily sensation maps associated Statistical classifiers distinguished emotion-specific activation maps with each emotion. -
What Disgust Does and Does Not Do for Moral Cognition Jared Piazzaa
What Disgust Does and Does Not Do for Moral Cognition Jared Piazzaa, Justin F. Landyb, Alek Chakroffc Liane Youngd, Emily Wassermand a Lancaster University, Department of Psychology b University of Chicago Booth School of Business cCharlie Finance Co., San Francisco, CA dBoston College, Psychology Department 2 1. Introduction Disgust is typically characterized as a negative emotion associated with the rejection of distasteful or contaminating objects (Rozin and Fallon 1987). The physiological aspects of disgust involve nausea and loss of appetite, and the bodily expression of disgust includes behaviors (e.g., gagging, vomiting) designed to orally block or expel noxious substances (Ekman and Friesen 1971; Royzman, Leeman and Sabini 2008; Rozin, Haidt and McCauley 2008; Yoder, Widen and Russell 2016). The canonical elicitors of disgust are well documented: many people report feeling nauseous or sick at the sight or smell of oral contaminants (e.g., rotten food, bodily waste) and/or disease vectors (e.g., blood, skin maladies, sexual fluids, certain animals; Curtis, Aunger and Rabie, 2004; Haidt, McCauley and Rozin, 1994; Olatunji et al. 2007). It is uncontroversial that disgust can also be evoked in the context of a moral offense. What remains controversial is disgust’s role or relevance within a moral context. When Armin Meiwes, the Rotenburg Cannibal, was discovered to have eaten the severed penis of his voluntary victim, before killing him and consuming his flesh over the next ten months, the story of this crime undoubtedly aroused disgust (and horror) in many of us. The relevant question is not whether we felt disgust about this crime—for most of us, human penis is not on the menu, and the thought of Meiwes’ preferred cuisine is deeply distasteful. -
June 1, 2020 Dear Massart Community, Pain. Grief. Anxiety. Disgust. Anger. Rage. All Fitting Emotions in Response to the Killing
June 1, 2020 Dear MassArt Community, Pain. Grief. Anxiety. Disgust. Anger. Rage. All fitting emotions in response to the killing of George Floyd. Just two weeks ago, we noted to our campus community acts of racism in our nation, including the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. Last week we learned of the racist incident involving Christian Cooper in New York City. And now this. Protests are occurring in our city and around the nation, with riots in many places. We grieve that people of color, in this case, the black community, once again bear the burden of our nation’s continued failure to create a more just and equitable society. If you find yourself wearied and burdened, so do I. But I, a white man of privilege, along with all my white colleagues and friends, don’t experience weariness and burden in any way like those who are the targets of racism. We need to carry this burden more than we ever have. I have said on more than one occasion that we have for too long burdened people of color not only with systemic racism and discrimination, but we also inordinately burden people of color with the burden of solving these problems on their own. The stark truth is that we white people created the problem and it is on us to remedy it. We know that where there is injustice there is no peace. We hope for justice to be done on behalf of George Floyd and his family, and we hope for peace to come to Minneapolis and our nation. -
Morality Is for Choosing Sides
CHAPTER 18 Morality Is for Choosing Sides Peter DeScioli Robert Kurzban Why did moral judgment evolve? To help people choose sides when conflicts erupt within groups with complex coalitions and power hierarchies. Theories of inorality have largely tried to ex What, then, might be the benefits gained plain the brighter side of behavior, answer tl1rough moral judgn1e11ts? Consider a situ i11g questio11s about wl1y people behave ii1 atio11 in wl1ich a perso11 accuses so1neo11e of ways that are kind, generous, and good. Our witchcraft, such as in Arthur Miller's The proposal focuses not on explaining n1oral Crucible. Specifically, suppose tl1at a you11g, behavior but, rather, on explaining inoral low-status wo1na11 accuses an older, more judgn1ent. Co11sider son1eone readi11g a pron1i11ent wo111an of witchcraft. Other news story abot1t a rnan who pays a woman members of the commt1nity can respond in to have sex with him. Many people wot1ld a few different ways. judge-in an intuitive way (Haidt, 2012) One obviot1s move for a self-interested that both the man's and woman's actions are observer is to curry favor with the higher n1orally wrong. O t1r interest lies in the ex status wornan. Choosing sides based on sta planation for these and similar judgments. tus often occurs in very hierarchical groups Theories that atte1npt to explain moral such as tl1e inilitary (Fiske, 1992). It is also behavior often point to altruism or benefits observed i11 11onl1uma11 ani111als: For i11- (de Waal, 1996; Krebs, 2005; Ridley, 1996; stance, hyenas join fights and st1pport the Wright, 1994). The theory of reciprocal al higher-statt1s and more formidable fighter truism (Trivers, 1971), for instance, explains (Holekamp, Sakai, & Lt1ndriga11, 2007). -
Are Supernatural Beliefs Commitment Devices for Intergroup Conflict?
Are Supernatural Beliefs Commitment Devices For Intergroup Conflict? Robert Kurzban John Christner University of Pennsylvania Robert Kurzban Department of Psychology 3720 Walnut St. Philadelphia PA 19104 (215) 898‐4977 [email protected] Abstract. In a world of potentially fluid alliances in which group size is an important determinant of success in aggressive conflict, groups can be expected to compete for members. By the same token, individuals in such contexts can be expected to compete for membership in large, cohesive groups. In the context of this competition, the ability to signal that one cannot change groups can be a strategic advantage because members of groups would prefer to have loyal allies rather than confederates who might switch groups as conditions change. This idea might help to explain why members of certain kinds of groups, especially competitive ones, use marks, scars and other more or less permanent modifications of their bodies to signal their membership. To the extent that people with these marks have difficulty joining rival groups, these marks are effective in signaling one’s commitment. It is possible that the public endorsement of certain kinds of beliefs have the same effect as marks. In particular, there are certain beliefs which, when endorsed, might make membership difficult in all but one group. This idea is proposed as an explanation for supernatural beliefs. Are Supernatural Beliefs Commitment Devices? Arguably the most important political event of the albeit still young 21st century was a case of intergroup conflict in which supernatural beliefs played a pivotal role. The attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington DC, and the foiled attack by the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11th, 2001, was motivated by intergroup conflict, but made possible in no small part because the perpetrators had beliefs about the afterlife. -
Fundamentals of Mathematical Theory of Emotional Robots
Department of Education and Science, Russian Federation Perm State University FUNDAMENTALS OF MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF EMOTIONAL ROBOTS MONOGRAPH Oleg G. Pensky, Kirill V. Chernikov 2010 Perm, RUSSIA Abstract In this book we introduce a mathematically formalized concept of emotion, robot’s education and other psychological parameters of intelligent robots. We also introduce unitless coefficients characterizing an emotional memory of a robot. Besides, the effect of a robot’s memory upon its emotional behavior is studied, and theorems defining fellowship and conflicts in groups of robots are proved. Also unitless parameters describing emotional states of those groups are introduced, and a rule of making alternative (binary) decisions based on emotional selection is given. We introduce a concept of equivalent educational process for robots and a concept of efficiency coefficient of an educational process, and suggest an algorithm of emotional contacts within a group of robots. And generally, we present and describe a model of a virtual reality with emotional robots. The book is meant for mathematical modeling specialists and emotional robot software developers. Translated from Russian by Julia Yu. Plotnikova © Pensky O.G., Chernikov K.V. 2010 2 CONTENTS Introduction 5 1. Robot’s emotion: definition 7 2. Education of a robot 12 3. Parameters of a group of emotional robots 22 4. Friendship between robots: fellowship (concordance) 24 5. Equivalent educational processes 26 5.1. Mathematical model of equivalent education processes 27 5.2. Alternative to an objective function under coincidence of time steps of real and equivalent education processes 29 5.3. Generalization in case of noncoincidence of time steps of real and equivalent education processes 33 6. -
Can the Social Scientists Be Saved? Should They?
Evolutionary Psychology human-nature.com/ep – 2006. 4: 102-106 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Book Review Can the social scientists be saved? Should they? A review of Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists by Jerome H. Barkow (Ed.). 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 302 + vii. $49.95 (hardcover). Satoshi Kanazawa, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected]. I began my graduate career in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington, where the great sociobiologist Pierre van den Berghe taught all his career. I was a stupid SSSM (“Standard Social Science Model”) sociology graduate student then, and I joined the chorus of the confederacy of dunces to ridicule Pierre’s sociobiological work. More than a decade later, I discovered evolutionary psychology on my own by reading Wright's The Moral Animal, and converted to it overnight. When I began working in EP, I apologized to Pierre for having been too dense to see the light a decade earlier, and told him my grand plan to introduce EP into sociology and revolutionize social sciences. Pierre was encouraging but cautious. He told me that he had tried to do that himself a quarter of a century earlier but to no avail. Sociologists were just too stupid to understand the importance of biology in human behavior, a view that he has expressed in print (van den Berghe, 1990), and he eventually left the field in disgust. Blinded by youthful optimism and ambition, I did not heed Pierre’s cautionary words and tried very hard to introduce EP into sociology.