Jessica D Ayers
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 107207 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jessica D Ayers |
| PRENOMES | Jessica D |
| SOBRENOME | Ayers |
| ASSINATURA | AYERS J D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boise State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7722-0376 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Cross-societal evidence of sex differences in preference for emotional support from friends
Friendship making orientation as indexed by preferences for wide networks and intimacy with many friends
Friendships help people achieve many fundamental adaptive functions, such as forming coalitions and successful alloparenting. As such, one might theorize that humans are designed to seek out and maintain as many friendships as possible. However, with time and energy as finite resources, humans face a unique challenge in determining the number of friendships they can sustain - do they prioritize maximizing friendship quantity (potentially at the e…
Helping People in Times of Need Cultivates Empathy Over Time
Why is lower social class often associated with greater empathy? We test whether less wealthy people experience more challenges, thereby motivating them to help others as a means of securing future social support, and, in turn, cultivating empathy over recurrent experiences. Study 1 ( N = 513) showed that wealth was negatively correlated with empathy through fewer challenges and less helping. Study 2 ( N = 915) replicated this effect while reveal…
Do People Get the Friends They Want? A Cross‐Cultural Investigation
People desire friends who have qualities such as similarity, the ability to provide support, opportunities for socialisation, assistance in achieving self-serving goals and access to potential mates. In the current study, we aimed to examine the degree of overlap between the friends people consider ideal and those they actually have. Using a sample of 6224 participants from 12 countries, we found that, across five dimensions of friendship, ideal …
Sources of fitness interdependence associated with shared fate and cooperation in a small-scale horticultural society
How Genetic-Conflict Theory Can Inform Studies of Human Nature
Understanding how genetics influences human psychology is something that the evolutionary sciences emphasize. However, the functions of complex genetic influences on behavior have been overlooked in favor of perspectives that posit unitary influences of genes on behavior. One such example is the belief that human growth, development, and behavior are influenced uniformly by their genes even though previous research has highlighted the genetic con…
Preferences for Closeness and Endurance in Friendship
Friendships vary in closeness and endurance: Some friendships are closer while others are more casual; some are more enduring while others last only as long as they are convenient. The present study examined friendship preferences in these dimensions. Using data from a cross-cultural sample ( N = 6224) taken from 12 countries, we found that the vast majority of participants preferred a combination of close and casual friendships, with a preferenc…
How do you build the perfect friend? Evidence from two forced-choice decision-making experiments
Friendship is a unique and underexplored area of human sociality. Research suggests that humans have preferences for characteristics in their friends that maximize the benefits of these relationships. Yet, whereas more friends might increase friendship benefits, humans also have limited time, resources, and energy to invest in finding high-quality friends, making it likely that the nature of these preferences differs depending on the resources an…
What is reciprocity? A review and expert-based classification of cooperative transfers
Sex differences in friendship preferences
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences
Need-based transfer systems are more vulnerable to cheating when resources are hidden
Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence
Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence
How do you build the perfect friend? Evidence from two forced-choice decision-making experiments
Friendship is a unique and underexplored area of human sociality. Research suggests that humans have preferences for characteristics in their friends that maximize the benefits of these relationships. Yet, whereas more friends might increase friendship benefits, humans also have limited time, resources, and energy to invest in finding high-quality friends, making it likely that the nature of these preferences differs depending on the resources an…
Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence
Is facial width-to-height ratio reliably associated with social inferences
Need-based transfer systems are more vulnerable to cheating when resources are hidden
Sex differences in friendship preferences
What is reciprocity? A review and expert-based classification of cooperative transfers
How do you build the perfect friend? Evidence from two forced-choice decision-making experiments
Friendship is a unique and underexplored area of human sociality. Research suggests that humans have preferences for characteristics in their friends that maximize the benefits of these relationships. Yet, whereas more friends might increase friendship benefits, humans also have limited time, resources, and energy to invest in finding high-quality friends, making it likely that the nature of these preferences differs depending on the resources an…
How Genetic-Conflict Theory Can Inform Studies of Human Nature
Understanding how genetics influences human psychology is something that the evolutionary sciences emphasize. However, the functions of complex genetic influences on behavior have been overlooked in favor of perspectives that posit unitary influences of genes on behavior. One such example is the belief that human growth, development, and behavior are influenced uniformly by their genes even though previous research has highlighted the genetic con…
Preferences for Closeness and Endurance in Friendship
Friendships vary in closeness and endurance: Some friendships are closer while others are more casual; some are more enduring while others last only as long as they are convenient. The present study examined friendship preferences in these dimensions. Using data from a cross-cultural sample ( N = 6224) taken from 12 countries, we found that the vast majority of participants preferred a combination of close and casual friendships, with a preferenc…
Cross-societal evidence of sex differences in preference for emotional support from friends
Friendship making orientation as indexed by preferences for wide networks and intimacy with many friends
Friendships help people achieve many fundamental adaptive functions, such as forming coalitions and successful alloparenting. As such, one might theorize that humans are designed to seek out and maintain as many friendships as possible. However, with time and energy as finite resources, humans face a unique challenge in determining the number of friendships they can sustain - do they prioritize maximizing friendship quantity (potentially at the e…
Helping People in Times of Need Cultivates Empathy Over Time
Why is lower social class often associated with greater empathy? We test whether less wealthy people experience more challenges, thereby motivating them to help others as a means of securing future social support, and, in turn, cultivating empathy over recurrent experiences. Study 1 ( N = 513) showed that wealth was negatively correlated with empathy through fewer challenges and less helping. Study 2 ( N = 915) replicated this effect while reveal…
Do People Get the Friends They Want? A Cross‐Cultural Investigation
People desire friends who have qualities such as similarity, the ability to provide support, opportunities for socialisation, assistance in achieving self-serving goals and access to potential mates. In the current study, we aimed to examine the degree of overlap between the friends people consider ideal and those they actually have. Using a sample of 6224 participants from 12 countries, we found that, across five dimensions of friendship, ideal …
Sources of fitness interdependence associated with shared fate and cooperation in a small-scale horticultural society
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (8 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (5 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (4 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (4 obras) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 obras) · Friendship (4 obras) · Developmental psychology (3 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (2 obras)