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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Error Management Theory"”.
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Is Anchoring on Estimates of Severity an Adaptive Heuristic?
… a storm that never arrives) or a false negative error (not preparing for a real storm). Error Management Theory (EMT; Haselton & Buss, 2000) posits that, depending on the uncertain context, people select a decision-making strategy that favors one error over the other. Related to weather, research …
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Encoding and decoding mutual grooming: Communication with a specialized form of touch
… women only, a fording that would be predicted by Error Management Theory (Haselton & Buss, 2000). Grooming is a tie-sign to women, and for men acts as a tie-sign only in the form of massage. Grooming has some psychological properties that further attest to its role in pairbonding. Fitting with the …
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The Implications of Sexual Assault Awareness on Sexual Overperception Bias
<p>Heterogeneity has recently emerged in research investigating men’s overperceptions of women’s sexual receptivity, namely that such overperceptions are less robust than previously considered. Various social movements (e.g., #MeToo) could be a modern-day contextual factor that has reduced men’s …