ArticleJournal of psychiatric research2018
Current evolutionary adaptiveness of anxiety: Extreme phenotypes of anxiety predict increased fertility across multiple generations.
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- Perspective: the evolution of hormones and person perception-a quantitative genetic framework.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Fitness consequences of depressive symptoms vary between generations: Evidence from a large cohort of women across the 20th century.PloS one · 2024Article
- Assessing the importance of sex in a hippocampus-dependent behavioral test battery in C57BL/6NTac mice.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Associations Between Common Forms of Psychopathology and Fecundity: Evidence From a Prospective, Longitudinal Twin Study.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Article
- Autistic-Like Traits in Members of the General Population and Mate Retention Tactics: The Mediation of Attachment Styles and Reproductive Strategies.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
objectiveAlthough recent research has begun to examine the impact of elevated anxiety on evolutionary fitness, no prior research has examined anxiety across a continuum. Such research is important as the effect of traits across a continuum on fertility hold important implications for the levels and distribution of the traits in later generations.
methodIn a three-generational sample (N = 2657) the linear and quadratic relationship between anxiety and the number of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren 15 years later was examined.
resultsThe findings suggested that anxiety had a positive quadratic relationship with the number of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren 15 years later. These relationships were not significantly moderated by sex. Moreover, most of the variance between anxiety and the number of great-grandchildren was explained by anxiety's influence on the number of children and grandchildren, as opposed to anxiety having an independent direct impact on the number of great-grandchildren.
conclusionThese findings suggest that extreme values from the mean anxiety are associated with increased evolutionary fitness within the modern environment.
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