Formidability and the logic of human anger

By Aaron Sell, J. Tooby, L. Cosmides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Anger, Hatred, and the Quest for Peace: Anger Can Be Constructive in the Absence of Hatred (2011, background): “Previous studies have found that stronger individuals are more prone to anger, prevail more in conflict situations, and consider themselves entitled to better treatment (Sell, Tooby, and Cosmides 2009).”
Toward a Unified Science of Hierarchy: Dominance and Prestige are Two Fundamental Pathways to Human Social Rank (2014, background): “A large body of work examining diverse human societies has supported the first part of this prediction: that larger and stronger individuals tend to be more aggressive (e.g., Archer and Thanzami 2007; Felson 1996; Gallup et al. 2007; Pellegrini et al. 2007; von Rueden et al. 2008; Sell et al. 2009; ”
Political Psychology in International Relations: Beyond the Paradigms (2018, background): “Evolutionary psychologists, for example, have found that, because of the centrality of physical strength—particularly upper body strength—to experiencing lower costs of conflict, male biceps circumference is positively associated with belief in the efficacy of using force to settle international dis”
Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, background): “Similarly, anger often acts as an " approach " emotion (Carver & Harmon- Jones, 2009), and associated aggression can lead to costly counteraggression (Sell et al., 2009).”
The burden of proof for a cultural group selection account (2014, background): “This was surely the case for punishment, as the utility of using coercive power to get one’s way would have ancestrally varied between people (e.g., aggression pays more for the strong; Sell et al. 2009) and between ecologies (e.”
Voice pitch influences voting behavior (2012, background): “Even though elected officials do not usually participate in warfare directly, Sell et al. (2009) found that stronger men were more likely to favor the use of military force than were weaker men.”
Testing an Adaptationist Theory of Trait Covariation: Relative Bargaining Power as a Common Calibrator of an Interpersonal Syndrome (2013, background): “As explained by Sell, Tooby, and Cosmides (2009), an individual’s RBP is a joint function of two broad phenotypic properties: (i) the ability to confer benefits on others and (ii) the ability to inflict costs on others.”
Human Emotions: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective (2016, background): “…that one evolved function of anger is to induce another individual to recalibrate his welfare trade-off ratio: feeling slighted motivates an angry response designed to impel the slighter to recalibrate his welfare tradeoff ratio and treat the victim more favorably in the future (Sell et al., 2009).”
Does a competent leader make a good friend? Conflict, ideology and the psychologies of friendship and followership (2015, background): “Cues of physical strength are also reliably available in the human face in the form of masculinity or facial dominance: a squarer jaw, smaller eyes, thicker, lowered and “bushier” eyebrows, thinner lips, and a larger facial width-to-height ratio (Carré, McCormick, & Mondloch, 2009; Keating, 1985; Ke”
Male facial width is associated with death by contact violence: narrow-faced males are more likely to die from contact violence (2012, background): “Ratings of male facial dominance from photographs accurately predict fighting ability (Sell et al., 2009).”