Environmental contingency in life history strategies
The influence of mortality and socioeconomic status on reproductive timing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6206950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vladas Griskevicius (University of Minnesota), Andrew W Delton (0000-0002-3505-985X, University of California, Santa Barbara), Theresa E Robertson (0000-0001-8229-2323, University of California, Santa Barbara), Joshua M Tybur (0000-0002-0462-6508, University of New Mexico) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241-254 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0021082 |
| PMID | 20873933 |
| PMCID | PMC3556268 |
| OpenAlex | W2158275126 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 153 |
| References cited | 45 |
Why do some people have children early, whereas others delay reproduction? By considering the trade-offs between using one's resources for reproduction versus other tasks, the evolutionary framework of life history theory predicts that reproductive timing should be influenced by mortality and resource scarcity. A series of experiments examined how mortality cues influenced the desire to have children sooner rather than later. The effects of mortality depended critically on whether people grew up in a relatively resource-scarce or resource-plentiful environment. For individuals growing up relatively poor, mortality cues produced a desire to reproduce sooner--to want children now, even at the cost of furthering one's education or career. Conversely, for individuals growing up relatively wealthy, mortality cues produced a desire to delay reproduction--to further one's education or career before starting a family. Overall, mortality cues appear to shift individuals into different life history strategies as a function of childhood socioeconomic status, suggesting important implications for how environmental factors can influence fertility and family size
Biology · Developmental psychology · Fertility · Life history theory · Population · Reproduction · Resource (disambiguation) · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Ecology · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 153 |
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| Citations per year | 10,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 135 |