TY - JOUR
T1 - Reproductive strategy and ethnic conflict
T2 - Slow life history as a protective factor against negative ethnocentrism in two contemporary societies
AU - Figueredo, Aurelio José
AU - Andrzejczak, Dok J.
AU - Jones, Daniel Nelson
AU - Smith-Castro, Vanessa
AU - Montero, Eiliana
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - Much previous theory and evidence in both social and evolutionary psychology has been equivocal and inconsistent regarding whether in-group altruism should predict out-group hostility, and whether this effect should be positive or negative in direction. A "slow" Life History (LH) strategy emphasizes both kin-selected altruism and reciprocal altruism as means of investing heavily in offspring, blood relatives, and mutualistic social relationships with both kith and kin. We therefore investigated whether a slow LH strategy, as a measurable individual-difference variable favoring in-group altruism (positive ethnocentrism), should predict out-group hostility (negative ethnocentrism), and what the direction of the hypothesized effect would be. We found that a multivariate latent variable representing slow LH strategy served as a protective factor against a latent variable representing Negative Ethnocentrism. These results were replicated in the United States of America and in the Republic of Costa Rica using Multisample Structural Equation Model with cross-sample equality constraints.
AB - Much previous theory and evidence in both social and evolutionary psychology has been equivocal and inconsistent regarding whether in-group altruism should predict out-group hostility, and whether this effect should be positive or negative in direction. A "slow" Life History (LH) strategy emphasizes both kin-selected altruism and reciprocal altruism as means of investing heavily in offspring, blood relatives, and mutualistic social relationships with both kith and kin. We therefore investigated whether a slow LH strategy, as a measurable individual-difference variable favoring in-group altruism (positive ethnocentrism), should predict out-group hostility (negative ethnocentrism), and what the direction of the hypothesized effect would be. We found that a multivariate latent variable representing slow LH strategy served as a protective factor against a latent variable representing Negative Ethnocentrism. These results were replicated in the United States of America and in the Republic of Costa Rica using Multisample Structural Equation Model with cross-sample equality constraints.
KW - Emotional intelligence
KW - Ingroup altruism
KW - Life history strategy
KW - Negative ethnocentrism
KW - Out-group hostility
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U2 - 10.1037/h0099277
DO - 10.1037/h0099277
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84857886888
SN - 1933-5377
VL - 5
SP - 14
EP - 31
JO - Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology
JF - Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology
IS - 1
ER -