ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2017
The life history model of the insurance hypothesis.
Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Associations of addiction-like eating with personal relative deprivation, compensatory health beliefs, and body mass index from the life history perspective.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- The Associations Between Social Rank Uncertainty, Machiavellianism, and Dominance: From a Life History Perspective.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Nettle et al.'s explanation based on the insurance hypothesis applies only to the association between food insecurity and body weight among adult women, but not to the results about there being no such associations among adult men and children. These results may be best understood when the insurance hypothesis is integrated with the life history model.
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