Emotional selection is a form of evolutionary selection where decisions are made based primarily on emotional factors.[1][2]
The German philosopher Ferdinand Fellmann proposed in 2009 emotional selection as a third form of evolutionary selection besides natural and sexual selection.[3] Loving, monogamous pair-bonding seems to be the favored field where sexual selection is being transformed in emotional selection specific for human courtship and mating.
The concept of emotional selection fits the recent trend of evolutionary psychology which suggests that individual differences are more than the raw material upon which natural selection operates as a homogenizing force. Instead, personality and individual differences are created by "psychosocial selection"[4] in the more intense forms of pair-bonding in primate sociality. Pair-bonds are based on detecting and supporting emotional complexity in partners with whom we maintain long-term intimate intercourse.
References
edit- ^ Fellmann, Ferdinand; Walsh, Rebecca (July 2013). "Emotional Selection and Human Personality". Biological Theory. 8 (1): 64–73. doi:10.1007/s13752-013-0093-3. S2CID 86381804.
- ^ Eriksson, Kimmo; Coultas, Julie C.; de Barra, Mícheál (24 February 2016). "Cross-Cultural Differences in Emotional Selection on Transmission of Information". Journal of Cognition and Culture. 16 (1–2): 122–143. doi:10.1163/15685373-12342171.
- ^ Fellmann, Ferdinand (2009). "Das Paar als Quelle des Selbst. Zu den soziobiologischen Grundlagen der philosophischen Anthropologie". Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. 57 (5): 745–56. doi:10.1524/dzph.2009.0062. S2CID 170459403.
- ^ Huxley, Julian (1942). Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262513661.
