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Title: | Selfishness is attributed to men who help young women: Signaling function of male altruism |
Authors: | Kawamura, Yuta Kusumi, Takashi ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Author's alias: | 河村, 悠太 楠見, 孝 |
Keywords: | altruism mate choice sexual selection generosity |
Issue Date: | 9-Jul-2017 |
Publisher: | Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan |
Journal title: | Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start page: | 45 |
End page: | 48 |
Abstract: | To investigate the function of altruism as a mating signal especially among males, the present study examined whether the motivation of a man who behaves altruistically toward a woman is more likely to be perceived as selfish by a third party. In two studies, participants read vignettes about one person helping a stranger, after which they rated the helpers’ perceived selfish motivation. We manipulated the sex of the recipient and helper (Study 1) and the recipient’s age (young vs. old; Study 2). In both studies, a man who helped a young woman was regarded as having a more selfish motivation than was an individual who helped the same sex. Conversely, although a woman who helped a man was viewed as more selfish than was a woman who helped another woman, the effect was smaller than when the helper was male (Study 1). Furthermore, a man who helped an old woman was not regarded as more selfish than was a man who helped another man (Study 2). These results support the notion that male altruism works as a courtship display. |
Rights: | © 2017 Kawamura & Kusumi This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2433/228170 |
DOI(Published Version): | 10.5178/lebs.2017.64 |
Related Link: | http://lebs.hbesj.org/index.php/lebs/article/view/lebs.2017.64 |
Appears in Collections: | Journal Articles |

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