Friends with Benefits: The Evolved Psychology of Same- and Opposite-Sex Friendship
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Friends with benefits: the evolved psychology of same- and opposite-sex friendship.
During human evolution, men and women faced distinct adaptive problems, including pregnancy, hunting, childcare, and warfare. Due to these sex-linked adaptive problems, natural selection would have favored psychological mechanisms that oriented men and women toward forming friendships with individuals possessing characteristics valuable for solving these problems. The current study explored sex...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolutionary Psychology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1474-7049,1474-7049
DOI: 10.1177/147470491100900407