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Women are not allowed by social group to own their bodies

José-Luis Guijarro 22/02/2012

Maybe I am being banal, but as some feminist say, the problem here, it seems to me, is the social idea that reproduction is too important to accord reproductive individuals the possession of their bodies. I am talking about biological (i.e., giving b…

"Rigtheous" women and "promiscuous" men

Radu Umbres 21/02/2012

I agree with Nicolas that "committed" women are often upholding patriarchical ideologies and this is highly relevant for the phenomenon. And this would support the hypothesis of protecting the "common good" with mutual benefits for participating wome…

Patriarchy is also supported by women

Nicolas Baumard 21/02/2012

On Olivier's answer: what is interesting with Weeden et al.'s framework is that it allows explaining not only why men moralize clothes, but also why women do. Indeed, "committed" women, who have invested heavily in their monogamous relationships, als…

Religion and Demography

Michael Blume 21/02/2012

Dear Pascal, I don't know if you remember me but we had a very good (if short) discussion in Frankfurt some years ago about your cognitive approach and my (then-upcoming) field of study: Religion(s) & Demography. In the meantime, even more data h…

Patriarchy as a common good

Olivier Morin 21/02/2012

Thanks for the post, pascal! I have an answer to your two questions, but first I need to make a short preamble. I agree for the most part with you and Nicolas, but the basic pattern you sketched does not tell us why power over women varies so much fr…

It's all about fairness!

Nicolas Baumard 21/02/2012

(Yes, I know, this comment is hardly suprising) As Pascal’s remark on public good game suggests, sexual restraint might be a question of cooperation. For many people, we would be better off if we would restrain ourselves and live a quiet, faithful an…

A range of method to police morality

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski 20/02/2012

It strikes me that connected to this kind of behaviour is the morality police that one finds in the most conservative Muslim states such as Saudi Arabia. There you are dealing with a much more methodical form of mate-guarding and you do find that it …

Speaking for vs. speaking to

Davie Yoon 19/02/2012

Hi Alex et al Thanks for raising this topic. Ever since I heard it mentioned at a CEU summer course back in 2005, it's been hanging around the back of my mind, nagging... For those cultures where the analysis of infant-directed speech has been charac…

And what about motherese?

Dan Sperber 17/02/2012

Thanks to Gordon for his useful comment and info. Actually it would be very, very surprising to find a culture where children are not spoken to until they themselves are fluent. On the other hand, the claim that 'motherese' is not universal, even if …

SES & input quantity

Alex Cristia 15/02/2012

Gordon, thank you for the reference. Your comment was very helpful, and I'll definitely look into that resource, with which I wasn't familiar. On the question of quantity, you were right that there is some within-culture variation. There was once a p…

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