Intelligence and Social Life

Social life, evolution of intelligence, behaviour and human brain size

Social life is one of the most critical factors of the evolution of the behavior of non-human primates and humans. Several factors, such as an increase in brain size, adaptive modules, and grooming, are related to the complexities of social groups. Although some scientists have mentioned foraging as a rival hypothesis for the evolution of behavior, in this research, we tried to investigate the ...

Investigating the moderating role of social intelligence in the relationship between social frustration and life expectancy in female-headed households

Introduction: Women heads of households are considered as women who are heads of households without regular presence or support of a man. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social frustration and social intelligence with life expectancy in female heads of households. Method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and structural equation model in terms of de...

Investigating the moderating role of social intelligence in the relationship between social frustration and life expectancy in female-headed households

Introduction: Women heads of households are considered as women who are heads of households without regular presence or support of a man. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social frustration and social intelligence with life expectancy in female heads of households. Method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and structural equation model in terms of de...

Life, Death, and Intelligence

Social intelligence, human intelligence and niche construction.

This paper is about the evolution of hominin intelligence. I agree with defenders of the social intelligence hypothesis in thinking that externalist models of hominin intelligence are not plausible: such models cannot explain the unique cognition and cooperation explosion in our lineage, for changes in the external environment (e.g. increasing environmental unpredictability) affect many lineage...