The Westermarck effect, also known as reverse sexual imprinting, is a psychological hypothesis that states that people tend not to be attracted to peers with whom they lived like siblings before the age of six.

2013年4月18日 · In our study, women rated morphed other-sex faces that resemble their siblings as significantly lower in sexual attractiveness than morphed faces on average, and the opposite effect was found in men—similarity to sibling increased perceived attractiveness.

2024年6月28日 · One particularly intriguing phenomenon is the Westermarck effect, named after Finnish anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher, Edvard Westermarck. His psychological effect explains why people...

The Westermarck effect states that children who grew up together or who spent a large part of their childhood together won't find each other sexually attractive. [1] The effect is named after Edvard Westermarck, a Finnish sociologist. According to Westermark, the idea is to prevent incest or inbreeding. Choosing another partner gives an ...

2021年1月1日 · In his seminal book, The History of Human Marriage (1891), the Finnish sociologist and philosopher Edward Alexander Westermarck provided an evolutionary explanation for the evident lack of sexual interest between close kin.

2021年1月1日 · Widely applied by evolutionary researchers to the explanation for human incest avoidance, Westermarck effect hypothesized that human tend to develop a strong sexual aversion to those they live closely with during infancy and early childhood.

2024年6月28日 · One particularly intriguing phenomenon is the Westermarck effect, named after Finnish anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher, Edvard Westermarck. His psychological effect explains why people who grow up together during early childhood often lack sexual attraction to one another.

The Westermarck effect, named after Finnish sociologist Edvard Westermarck, describes a phenomenon in which two people who were raised together in close proximity during childhood tend to experience a decreased attraction to one another in adulthood (Koski & Pulkkinen, 2005).

2017年12月7日 · The Westermarck effect (also known as the Westermarck hypothesis) is the proposition that early close childhood association leads to sexual aversion, which is in turn the reason for incest avoidance.

Research on human inbreeding avoidance has uncovered at least two central cues to the detection of siblings: witnessing an infant being taken care of by one's mother (i.e. maternal perinatal association) and growing up in close proximity to a …