Book review: Comprehensive Evolutionary Perspective on Family and Parenting

Weekes-Shackelford, V. A., & Shackelford, T. K. (eds.). (2021). The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Parenting. New York: Oxford University Press

Shackelford, William (LG 385)

Finding aid and full scan (Click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 385. Original land grant, 1815 June 28, by which Isaac Shelby, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to William Shackelford and Obadiah Hendrick, assignee of Henry Wood, assignee of Henry Wood, assignee of Mary Wood, 400 acres in Warren County, Kentucky

Crisis Intervention Teams Assist Law Enforcement

A shorter version of this article appeared on pp. 5–7 of the Fall 2017 print edition.The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is a police-based, first responders’ pre-arrest jail diversion model for individuals with mental illness and/or substance abuse disorder. A new CIT coalition is being developed in Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The online version of the article also includes additional information about specialized police responses.Specialized training / Mat-Su adapts CIT / CIT requires culture shift / SIDEBAR: Specialized police response models / Reference

Psychological and physiological adaptations to sperm competition in humans

Postcopulatory competition between males, in the form of sperm competition, is a widespread phenomenon in many animal species. The extent to which sperm competition has been an important selective pressure during human evolution remains controversial, however. The authors review critically the evidence that human males and females have psychological, behavioral, and physiological adaptations that evolved in response to selection pressures associated with sperm competition. The authors consider, using evidence from contemporary societies, whether sperm competition is likely to have been a significant adaptive problem for ancestral humans and examine the evidence suggesting that human males have physiological and psychological mechanisms that allow for “prudent” sperm allocation in response to variations in the risk of sperm competition

Men’s Perception of Raped Women: Test of the Sexually Transmitted Disease Hypothesis and the Cuckoldry Hypothesis

Rape is a recurrent adaptive problem of female humans and females of a number of non-human animals. Rape has various physiological and reproductive costs to the victim. The costs of rape are furthermore exaggerated by social rejection and blaming of a victim, particularly by men. The negative perception of raped women by men has received little attention from an evolutionary perspective. Across two independent studies, we investigated whether the risk of sexually transmitted diseases (the STD hypothesis, Hypothesis 1) or paternity uncertainty (the  cuckoldry hypothesis, Hypothesis 2) influence the negative perception of raped women by men. Raped women received lower attractiveness score than non-raped women, especially in long-term mate attractiveness score. The perceived attractiveness of raped women was not influenced by the presence of experimentally manipulated STD cues on faces of putative rapists. Women raped by three men received lower attractiveness score than women raped by one man. These results provide stronger support for the cuckoldry hypothesis (Hypothesis 2) than for the STD hypothesis (Hypothesis 1). Single men perceived raped women as more attractive than men in a committed relationship (Hypothesis 3), suggesting that the mating opportunities mediate men’s perception of victims of rape. Overall, our results suggest that the risk of cuckoldry underlie the negative perception of victims of rape by men rather than the fear of disease transmission

Interview of Frank Worgan

Shackelford interviews Worgan on his experiences in the mission field in England. The interview was conducted in Searcy, AR

Interview of Larry Williams

Shackelford interviews Williams on his experiences in the mission field in Brazil. The interview was conducted in Searcy, AR

Interview of Epi Stephen Bilak

Shackelford interviews Bilak on his experiences in the mission field in Switzerland. The interview was conducted in Searcy, AR