PSY 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Utopian Socialism, Internal Fertilization, Vitamin A Deficiency
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Sections: parental investment defined, life history perspective, why mothers usually invest more than fathers. Ability to transform parental investment into rs: (end part a, alternative uses of parental investment. Parental investment defined: the needs that lead many of us to feel unconditional love for our children also seem to be remarkably persistent, for reasons that are not at present altogether clear. robert. Sternberg, 1986: so without evolutionary theory, parental feelings don"t make much sense , it"s not just professors who are clueless . Everyone worked and received the same income regardless of what work they did. A key feature of the kibbutz was that children were raised in a children"s quarters, by women who were not the biological parents. Why: mothers began insisting that their children live with them. The mother child bond is apparently instinctive or primal, it apparently occurs in all societies.
