Ronald S Immerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 83122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald S Immerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald S |
| FAMILY NAME | Immerman |
| SIGNATURE | IMMERMAN R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fatherlessness by Divorce Contrasted to Fatherlessness by Non-Marital Births: A Distinction with a Difference for the Community
Although “marriage” and the “family” have tended to be analyzed with the individual participants as the frame of reference, recent trends in family-formation have taken a trajectory that clearly affects the community or any intact social group. One such trend is increased levels of father-absence: Preclusion or abrasion of the father from the mother-child dyad. Evidence is presented which argues that father-preclusion and father-abrasion are two …
Sexually Transmitted Disease and Gender Roles: An Index of Cultural Evolution
In the last 25 years of the 20th century, two events occurred that may affect cultural evolution into the foreseeable future. First, birth rates in a number of industrialized nations dropped below the level of population maintenance,and, second, the HIV/AIDS virus emerged, spread, and became embedded and endemic in many nations. The relationship between the spread of HIV/AIDS and several parameters of a nation's demography is empirically examined…
Pair-Bonding and the Evolutionary Trajectory of Homo: Disease Avoidance as an Adaptive Trait
As the ancestors of both the great apes and humans began to separate into two lineages, several distinctions emerged and solidified for the separate genera. It is suggested here that the sequelae to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and subsequent behavioral tendencies to avoid sexually transmitted diseases played an important role in forging the unique character of the Australopithecine/Homo line. In particular, the advantage of pair-bonding …
New ideas/viewpoints: A proposed feedback loop of sexually transmitted diseases and sexual behavior: The red queen's dilemma
(Micro)organisms, such as bacteria, which cause sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in humans are presented with an interesting ecological challenge. These microorganisms need humans to have sexual contact with each other in order for the microorganisms to spread to other hosts as well as to have subsequent generations of descendants. However, diseases tend to lower the sex drive and to render the host less sexually attractive. It is argued that…
The father(to)child affiliative bond: Convergent evolution with the canid analogue
Primate homologues, especially from the African great apes, can usually be successfully utilized to form comparisons with the human condition. However, the man(to)child pair-bond is not paralleled by any terrestrial primate nor even many mammals. Hence, knowledge of primate behavior would not be predictive of the pan-human social father. It is suggested that female choices of mating partners shifted in the direction of a canid analogue in that me…
Cultural Viability and Gender Egalitarianism: An Elusive Balance Yet To Be Struck
A sine qua non of a, or any, culture's continuity across generations is the existence of citizens within that culture. With a systematic replenishment of very mortal citizens, the culture can enjoy extended longevity or perpetuity. Without citizens, a culture becomes, at best, an historical footnote. With the advent of inexpensive, effective reproductive technology, a paradox has been created in the 21st century. To wit: when effective reproducti…
Restriction of Sexual Activity as a Partial Function of Disease Avoidance: A Cultural Response to Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Across cultures, sexual relations are expected between husbands and wives. This expectation is virtually a constant, a universal. On the other hand, sexual relations between two persons who are not married to each other is much more of a variable across cultures. It is argued that part of the differences among cultures in their treatment of extramarital sexual activity is a function of the presence or absence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD…
Sexually transmitted diseases, pair bonding, fathering, and alliance formation: Disease avoidance behaviors as a proposed element in human evolution
Sexually transmitted diseases, pair bonding, fathering, and alliance formation: Disease avoidance behaviors as a proposed element in human evolution
The Societal Dilemma of Multiple Sexual Partners: The Costs of the Loss of Pair-Bonding
Although human reproductive strategies, mating, do not preclude multiple sexual partners, virtually all marriage systems across the world reinforce a pair-bonding template. The question is addressed: why would cultural traditions so universally reinforce monogamy-pair-bonding-as a marriage system? Conversely, what happens when multiple partners are increased within a social group? Data are presented which suggest that an unraveling of the pair-bo…
A biocultural analysis of circumcision
The phenomenon of circumcision may well serve a range of religious and symbolic functions. In addition to these conceptual categories, we argue that circumcision also serves a more mundane, practical function of lowering excitability and distractibility quotients--sexual arousal--of pubescent males, i.e., biasing young males more toward increased tractability which would enhance group efforts and less toward individual goals of amorous exchanges.…
Restriction of Sexual Activity as a Partial Function of Disease Avoidance: A Cultural Response to Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Across cultures, sexual relations are expected between husbands and wives. This expectation is virtually a constant, a universal. On the other hand, sexual relations between two persons who are not married to each other is much more of a variable across cultures. It is argued that part of the differences among cultures in their treatment of extramarital sexual activity is a function of the presence or absence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD…
Sexually transmitted diseases, pair bonding, fathering, and alliance formation: Disease avoidance behaviors as a proposed element in human evolution
The Societal Dilemma of Multiple Sexual Partners: The Costs of the Loss of Pair-Bonding
Although human reproductive strategies, mating, do not preclude multiple sexual partners, virtually all marriage systems across the world reinforce a pair-bonding template. The question is addressed: why would cultural traditions so universally reinforce monogamy-pair-bonding-as a marriage system? Conversely, what happens when multiple partners are increased within a social group? Data are presented which suggest that an unraveling of the pair-bo…
Cultural Viability and Gender Egalitarianism: An Elusive Balance Yet To Be Struck
A sine qua non of a, or any, culture's continuity across generations is the existence of citizens within that culture. With a systematic replenishment of very mortal citizens, the culture can enjoy extended longevity or perpetuity. Without citizens, a culture becomes, at best, an historical footnote. With the advent of inexpensive, effective reproductive technology, a paradox has been created in the 21st century. To wit: when effective reproducti…
A biocultural analysis of circumcision
The phenomenon of circumcision may well serve a range of religious and symbolic functions. In addition to these conceptual categories, we argue that circumcision also serves a more mundane, practical function of lowering excitability and distractibility quotients--sexual arousal--of pubescent males, i.e., biasing young males more toward increased tractability which would enhance group efforts and less toward individual goals of amorous exchanges.…
The Societal Dilemma of Multiple Sexual Partners: The Costs of the Loss of Pair-Bonding
Although human reproductive strategies, mating, do not preclude multiple sexual partners, virtually all marriage systems across the world reinforce a pair-bonding template. The question is addressed: why would cultural traditions so universally reinforce monogamy-pair-bonding-as a marriage system? Conversely, what happens when multiple partners are increased within a social group? Data are presented which suggest that an unraveling of the pair-bo…
Sexually transmitted diseases, pair bonding, fathering, and alliance formation: Disease avoidance behaviors as a proposed element in human evolution
Sexually transmitted diseases, pair bonding, fathering, and alliance formation: Disease avoidance behaviors as a proposed element in human evolution
Restriction of Sexual Activity as a Partial Function of Disease Avoidance: A Cultural Response to Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Across cultures, sexual relations are expected between husbands and wives. This expectation is virtually a constant, a universal. On the other hand, sexual relations between two persons who are not married to each other is much more of a variable across cultures. It is argued that part of the differences among cultures in their treatment of extramarital sexual activity is a function of the presence or absence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD…
Cultural Viability and Gender Egalitarianism: An Elusive Balance Yet To Be Struck
A sine qua non of a, or any, culture's continuity across generations is the existence of citizens within that culture. With a systematic replenishment of very mortal citizens, the culture can enjoy extended longevity or perpetuity. Without citizens, a culture becomes, at best, an historical footnote. With the advent of inexpensive, effective reproductive technology, a paradox has been created in the 21st century. To wit: when effective reproducti…
Pair-Bonding and the Evolutionary Trajectory of Homo: Disease Avoidance as an Adaptive Trait
As the ancestors of both the great apes and humans began to separate into two lineages, several distinctions emerged and solidified for the separate genera. It is suggested here that the sequelae to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and subsequent behavioral tendencies to avoid sexually transmitted diseases played an important role in forging the unique character of the Australopithecine/Homo line. In particular, the advantage of pair-bonding …
New ideas/viewpoints: A proposed feedback loop of sexually transmitted diseases and sexual behavior: The red queen's dilemma
(Micro)organisms, such as bacteria, which cause sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in humans are presented with an interesting ecological challenge. These microorganisms need humans to have sexual contact with each other in order for the microorganisms to spread to other hosts as well as to have subsequent generations of descendants. However, diseases tend to lower the sex drive and to render the host less sexually attractive. It is argued that…
The father(to)child affiliative bond: Convergent evolution with the canid analogue
Primate homologues, especially from the African great apes, can usually be successfully utilized to form comparisons with the human condition. However, the man(to)child pair-bond is not paralleled by any terrestrial primate nor even many mammals. Hence, knowledge of primate behavior would not be predictive of the pan-human social father. It is suggested that female choices of mating partners shifted in the direction of a canid analogue in that me…
Fatherlessness by Divorce Contrasted to Fatherlessness by Non-Marital Births: A Distinction with a Difference for the Community
Although “marriage” and the “family” have tended to be analyzed with the individual participants as the frame of reference, recent trends in family-formation have taken a trajectory that clearly affects the community or any intact social group. One such trend is increased levels of father-absence: Preclusion or abrasion of the father from the mother-child dyad. Evidence is presented which argues that father-preclusion and father-abrasion are two …
Sexually Transmitted Disease and Gender Roles: An Index of Cultural Evolution
In the last 25 years of the 20th century, two events occurred that may affect cultural evolution into the foreseeable future. First, birth rates in a number of industrialized nations dropped below the level of population maintenance,and, second, the HIV/AIDS virus emerged, spread, and became embedded and endemic in many nations. The relationship between the spread of HIV/AIDS and several parameters of a nation's demography is empirically examined…
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (3 works)