Evolution and ClosE RElationships - Social Sciences

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 1 Evolution 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.

Evolution and Close Relationships 5 universal structure as a result of the evolved human mechanisms for language (Pinker, 1994). Next, we review two key distinguishing features of a modern

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