PSYC 308 Chapter 10: Ch. 10 Readings
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Baumeister says evolutionary basis for tendency to seek out relationships - help offspring survive, and increase likelihood to pass genes. Friendship evolved as means for non-kin to cooperate and avoiding costs of competition and aggression. Patterns of social behaviour are universal - caregiving between mother and child, wrestling of siblings, flirtation among young people, dominance, etc. Western european cultures, restrict meaningful interactions to about. 6 friends - don"t seek others once need is satisfied, then find other relationships. > harlow; raised baby rhesus monkeys without mother contact, and others with contact to mother surrogates (proped in cloth, and wire, etc) Monkeys preferred mothers that can provide comfort over one that provides food. Those raised with these mothers were not normal when reached adolescence - fearful, inappropriate sex behaviours, no peer interacting, etc. Some elephants slaughtered for ivory in tusks, leaving young elephants to grow -> provide antisocial and aggressive when adult.
