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3 Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology: Vol. 3. Interpersonal Relations, M. Mikulincer and P. R. Shaver (Editors-in-Chief)Copyright 2015 by the American Psychological Association. All rights a p t e r 1Evolution and ClosE RElationshipsVladas Griskevicius, Martie G. Haselton, and Joshua M. AckermanThroughout history, humans have faced critical chal-lenges that included finding a mate, keeping that mate, caring for kin, forming coalitions, and gaining some status. Solving each of these ancestral chal-lenges involved forming a different type of Social rela-tionship. An evolutionary perspective suggests that there is a set of fundamentally different types of ClosE RElationships associated with different evolutionary challenges. These types include (a) mate attraction ( , dating couples), (b) mate retention ( , mar-ried couples), (c) kin care ( , family members), (d) coalition formation ( , friends), and (e) status ( , workplace RElationships ). Each type of ancestral challenge is associated with different kinds of evolu-tionary opportunities and costs, suggesting that dif-ferent types of RElationships may be governed by a different relationship -specific psychology.

Griskevicius, Haselton, and Ackerman 6 behaviors are likely to have both ultimate and proximate explanations. For example, people seek romantic relationships because they provide

  Relationship, Romantic, Close, Evolution, Evolution and close relationships

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