PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Matrilocal Residence, Kibbutz, Bride Price
20 Mar 2013
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Avoid harming them too much (or too often) Cues tap into some kinship estimator, gives us a kinship index. Kinship index monitors and downgrades sexual attraction towards close kin. Potential proximate mechanisms: aversion and/or complete sexual non-attraction, genuine concern for their well-being. Situational predictors (e. g, who did i grow up with?) Other sensory modalities (e. g. voice) : learn voice. Statistical predictor of siblinghood (in many species with parental care) Proposed by westermarck (1891) as mechanism for incest avoidance: people are not sexually attracted to those whom they grow up with from childhood. Contrast to other views that incest is only prevented by taboos aside: evade. that taboos not wholly responsible for incest avoidance: Cultures with explicit taboos aside: parent/offspring and sibling mating is particularly detrimental, cousins not so much. Childrens raised together will be averse to mating with each other as adults - even if they are actually unrelated.
