bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Positive Evolutionary Psychology
Authors: A. Wedberg Nicole , Geher Glenn , McQuade Brianna , M. Thomas Dayna 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
To this point in the history of the behavioral sciences, the fields of evolutionary psychology and positive psychology have progressed independently. Evolutionary psychology holds the basic scientific goal of illuminating causes of behavior by using evolutionary concepts. Positive psychology holds the applied scientific goal of shedding light on processes that cultivate positive growth at both the individual and community levels. This chapter discusses the new field of positive evolutionary psychology, which seeks to synergize these fields by carving out an approach to researching questions that bear on advancing the goals of positive psychology by relying on concepts and research from the field of evolutionary psychology. Using an evolutionarily informed framework holds the key to best understanding such positive psychological issues as happiness, love, and the psychology of cooperation.
More than PMS
Authors: Welling Lisa L. M. , Mitchell Virginia E. , Lunge Jenna , Hughes Mercedes 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Perimenstrual syndrome (PMS) is but one of several noted relationships between hormonal profile and emotion. Hormones play a moderating role in nearly all focal emotions, including negative (i.e., anger, disgust, fear, sadness) and positive (i.e., happiness) emotions. Associations between hormones and emotions are documented in both men and women, although most work has focused on women. For example, severe depression often presents with hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction, including elevated cortisol and impaired negative feedback control, and this dysfunction has been observed prior to the development of depression in high-risk populations. This chapter explains basic hormonal processes and reviews the literature on the role of hormones in emotions. The authors review evidence that anger and dominant/aggressive behavior and feelings of disgust are related to steroid hormone levels. Finally, they examine associations between hormones and depression and anxiety disorders. They conclude with recommendations for future research.
Natural Selection and Human Emotions
Authors: Betzig Laura 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Natural selection is differential reproduction. Demographic and ethnographic, historical and genetic evidence suggest that, over the course of our evolutionary past, members of H. sapiens varied in reproductive success. Selection for emotions and other adaptations underlying intrasexual and intersexual competition should have been strong. In foragers across continents, from Africa to Australia, reproductive variance among women often was limited to single digits, though reproductive variance occasionally reached double digits among men. Those numbers were higher in more sedentary societies. In the first empires, from Asia to the Americas, emperors consistently left behind hundreds of sons; and genetic evidence suggests that the effective breeding population of women was greater than the effective breeding population of men, by a factor of 17 to 1. Adaptations have developed, and have been put to use, in order to promote reproductive success.
The Harmful Dysfunction Analysis
Authors: Wakefield Jerome C. , Conrad Jordan A. 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
This chapter explores the concept of an emotional disorder from the perspective of Jerome Wakefield’s harmful dysfunction analysis (HDA) of mental disorder. According to the HDA, a disorder is the failure of a mechanism to perform its evolved function, in a way that is harmful to the organism. The distinction between disorder and nondisorder is the foundation of medical, including psychiatric, nosology, yet the concept remains much debated. After surveying competing views of mental disorder and arguing for the conceptual advantages of the HDA, this chapter considers some of the challenges that arise in applying the HDA to distinguish disordered versus normal emotional functioning. Reviewing various analyses of the sources of possible diagnostic errors including the cliff-edge and smoke-detector principles, as well as the most prominent evolutionary theory of emotion, the superordinate-program theory of emotion, the authors provide an overview of the unique difficulties emotional disorders pose to diagnostic psychiatry.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Post-Combat Reintegration
Authors: A. Garcia Hector 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
The medical model and mental health stigma frame post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as an essential malfunction. However, in this chapter the author argues that what are regarded as PTSD sequelae exist today because they are based on survival adaptations, helping human ancestors avoid predation, cope with aggressive in-group members, and survive violent inter-group conflicts. While distressing to the experiencer, PTSD-related interpersonal difficulties, as well as behavioral, cognitive, and comorbid symptomology, have ancestral survival utility. In particular, combat-related PTSD and the associated difficulties soldiers face reintegrating into civilian life are illuminated by an evolutionary framing of PTSD, evolved male coalitionary psychology, and the mismatch between the evolutionary past and life in modern, peacetime, civilian environments. Evolutionary explanations of PTSD can help reduce mental health stigma, and increase rates of engagement and completion of evidence-based psychotherapies.
Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Hypochondriasis, and Behavioral Addictions
Authors: Brakoulias Vlasios 
Published: May 2024

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Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders are characterized by obsessions (recurrent and intrusive thoughts, images, or impulses) and/or compulsions (repetitive behaviors or mental acts). Hypochondriasis is characterized by repetitive concerns regarding one’s health and repetitive checks and investigations. Behavioral addictions are characterized by excessive repetitive actions. This chapter aims to explore the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, hypochondriasis, and behavioral addictions from an evolutionary perspective. The repetition associated with many of these disorders has been linked to protection from harm and reward in a way that supported ancestral survival. An evolutionary perspective may assist people suffering from these disorders in forming an alternative conceptualization for the origin of their symptoms and has potential to enhance outcomes from psychological therapies. Such conceptualizations may be of particular benefit for those sufferers who wish to gain understanding and who may be embarrassed by the seemingly senseless nature of their symptoms.
The Neutralization Theory of Hatred
Authors: Sell Aaron , Scrivner Coltan , Landers Mitchell , C. Lopez Anthony 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
This chapter argues that, while often conceptualized as an extreme form of anger, hatred is a distinct emotion, with unique triggers, conceptual orientations, and terminating conditions. This is because hatred evolved to address its own distinct adaptive problem: the existence of individuals who were—on balance—costly to the hater. Because a well-designed system for solving this problem would have been tailored toward neutralizing those costs, the authors call this hypothesis “the neutralization theory of hatred.” This theory claims that hatred is triggered by cues that an individual’s existence causes fitness decrements for the hater. Cognitively, hatred orients the mind to view costs heaped onto the hated person as benefits to the hater—thus motivating spiteful behavior—and can be characterized as maintaining a negative intrinsic welfare trade-off parameter toward the hated person. Behaviorally, hatred can motivate either avoidance or a predatory cost-infliction strategy that is designed to weaken, incapacitate, or terminate the target.
Indigenous Perspectives on Collaborative Archaeology
Authors: Sanchez Gabriel M. , Grone Mike , Antoniou Anna , Davis Earl 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Indigenous communities and people direct and participate in archaeological research in diverse ways. Consequently, the development and growth of Indigenous archaeology, collaborative archaeology, and incorporation of community-based participatory research and community-engaged research protocols have also led to the development of diverse Indigenous archaeologies. This chapter outlines two Indigenous archaeology approaches initiated by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe conducted collaboratively with non-tribal researchers. Several commonalities in research goals and practices exist within these distinct archaeological projects. For example, shared interests in the use of archaeology to support Indigenous natural resource stewardship, recognition of tribal sovereignty and rights to traditional lands and resources, emphasis on tribal health and wellness, and understanding Indigenous foodways in support of Indigenous food sovereignty, among others, exist. Archaeological research of ancestral sites provides further information that can support these initiatives.
Margins or Nodes? The Role of the Inner Asian Mountain Communities in Prehistoric Food Globalization
Authors: Matuzeviciute Giedre Motuzaite 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
The multi-directional translocation of domesticates across Central Asia played a major role in the past cultural, demographic, and environmental transformations of Eurasia. The mountain chains that stretch across Central Asia are especially intriguing for addressing prehistoric network formation systems across Eurasia. Mountain zones acted as geographical filters by influencing when and what animal and plant species were dispersed to trans-range regions of Eurasia, and how networks of interaction formed. At the same time, diverse ecosystems of the mountain valleys and abundance of water acted as a vital area for holding those networks together. This paper discusses the earliest evidence of food production in the Tien Shan and the role of mountain communities in distributing crop and animal species across the wider regions of Asia. In the light of the newest research, the chapter will discuss human subsistence strategies in these high-elevation zones in prehistory, pinpointing the timings of crop and animal arrival, and identifying selection between species due to marginal climates. It will also discuss the environmental and cultural processes that facilitated early crop and domesticated animal movement across the region where filtering effects of plant and animal selection by communities were very distinct. Thus, this region holds a clue to explaining the distribution patterns of our earliest domesticates. Finally, this paper shows that mountains zones were not marginal ‘pass over’ territory, but instead densely populated regions that anchored diverse agricultural economies and long-distance Eurasian exchange networks.
The Socialist Realist Novel in Central Asia
Authors: Fort Chris 
Published: May 2024

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This chapter examines how Central Asian authors in Soviet Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan conceived of and produced works of socialist realism, a Russian-born notion, soon after the literary trend was introduced in the 1930s. It argues that, contrary to the vague Stalinist instruction that objects of Soviet culture be “national in form, socialist in content,” the novels written by early Soviet Kazakh and Uzbek litterateurs were national and international in form and socialist and national in content. This chapter therefore shows how Kazakh and Uzbek authors represented their national proletariat through the more locally relevant lenses of sedentarism and traditional gender roles rather than through depictions of labor. It also demonstrates how these writers combined Soviet and national narrative forms, drew on Persianate literary techniques, and referenced Russian realism. In this way, they fixed their novels in the Persianate tradition as well as in the international realist tradition.
Reality Effects and Oral Modes of Entextualization
Authors: Chatterji Roma 
Published: May 2024

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This chapter explores the possibility of extending “realism” to disciplines beyond art and literary criticism. The notion of the “real” is important in subjects as far apart as folk art, oral literature, and ethnography. But it can have different meanings depending on the context in which it occurs and the kinds of interactions that it may be said to be associated with. The chapter argues that the term “reality effect” may be more useful to describe the emergent quality of everyday interactions and whatever the real may connote in non-Western cultures that anthropologists generally study rather than “realism” with its more limited aesthetic reference. The chapter then presents examples of the ways in which the real may be referenced in oral narratives collected from West Bengal, India, and in case conferences and medical dossiers in a verpleghuis (nursing home) in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
The Politics of Postcolonial Realism
Authors: Gorman-DaRif Meghan 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
The genre of realism, in its claim to transparently represent “reality,” has been routinely dismissed as Eurocentric and politically conservative within the field of postcolonial literary studies. Rather than attending to the genre of realism, postcolonial theory’s investment in concepts like mimicry, hybridity, indeterminacy, and so on, has often focused the field on genres like modernism or postmodernism as more productive sites for literary study. Yet realism makes up a significant, if overlooked, number of postcolonial literary texts. This chapter explores realism from a postcolonial context and global lens through a review of debates in the field since the 1980s, alongside close readings of a selection of representative postcolonial realist texts. It starts from those that address the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s and moves to the present day in fiction grappling with globalization and climate change to ask, is realism capable of politically engaging with and responding to the world?
“Take Me Out” to “Sweet Caroline”
Authors: Mihalka Matthew W. 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
During the seventh-inning stretch, an extended break in the action toward the end of a standard nine-inning American baseball game, the crowd members rise to their feet and participate in a uniform baseball practice: the collective singing of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Accompanied by another staple of the baseball soundscape, the organ, the crowd members collectively express their desire to be taken to a ball game, even though they are already at one. The collective singing practices of “the stretch” offer an opportunity for spectators to reinforce their interpersonal bonds, thereby transcending their divergent experiences, ethnicities, or socioeconomic statuses. Other common ballpark singing practices center on patriotic songs such as “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “God Bless America,” although these usually elicit less participation. In addition to these three ubiquitous songs, each with its own history and meaning in the context of US sporting events, Major League Baseball teams have their own individualized sonic traditions that distinguish the experience at their ballparks. Such practices enable teams to develop an identity and unify a frequently diverse fanbase. All these practices strengthen the community that is fostered at baseball games and offer participatory opportunities, providing fans a sense of involvement and keeping them entertained over the span of a game.
Singing Jewishness
Authors: Adelstein Rachel 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Contemporary Anglophone Jewish congregants prize participatory worship and enjoy singing portions of the liturgy to a selection of familiar, beloved melodies. Hymnals are not used in synagogue worship; instead, congregants learn these melodies by ear, singing liturgical texts as “the song that goes like this.” Most do not know the origins of their favorite melodies, believing them to be much older than they really are. This chapter analyzes the cultural work that this group of liturgical melodies does in Jewish congregational life. Drawing on ethnographic research in the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as the sociology of nostalgia and Jewish history, author Rachel Adelstein argues that these melodies help to express “Jewishness” in worship. Adelstein positions congregational reliance on “the songs that go like this” as a response to the legacy of migration, the challenges of modernity, and the re-centering of Jewish life following the Holocaust. She argues that the veil of nostalgic anonymity placed over these songs gives Jewish congregations a sense of tradition upon which to construct a modern social and religious life. She also examine the threat that this anonymity presents to Jewish communities’ understanding of and reckoning with their own recent history and community structure.
The Disney Chorus
Authors: Camp Gregory 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Throughout its history, the Walt Disney Company has foregrounded community singing as part of its construction of American cultural identity across its film, television, and theme park texts, while at the same time acting as an important disseminator of music for community consumption. The studio’s 1950s films and television shows, such as Davy Crockett, The Mickey Mouse Club, and The Light in the Forest, present community singing, often of simulated folksongs (or “fakesongs”), as an important part of American life in both the idealized present and the constructed past. The Mickey Mouse Club even encouraged children to sing along from their own homes. From the founding of Disneyland in 1955 to the present international expansion of the theme parks, Disney’s attractions, shows, and parades have asked park-goers to join with each other and with professional performers, real and audio-animatronic, in singing traditional American songs as well as newly composed music. By enabling and encouraging community singing based on its own musical products, Disney has since the 1950s cemented its centrality in American cultural life. The company has long given its consumers a literal voice in their use of its products as it taps into their desire for nostalgia, tradition, and shared identity.
Border Transgressions
Authors: Amrein Emilie , de Quadros André 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Eurocentric choral practice represents a small slice of the 70,000-year-old phenomenon of communal singing, yet it dominates in the imagination of singing communities. This narrow paradigm of group singing persists within a series of interlocking ideologies—settler colonialism, racialized capitalism, white supremacy, and cisheteropatriarchy—that continue to cause harm to individuals and communities around the world. This chapter argues, therefore, that choral music’s white racial frame impoverishes the power and potential of choral musicking in the Western world. In this chapter, the authors present exemplars and experiences of community singing that depart from typical choral activity, arguing that when the performative is displaced in favor of the participatory, and the stage is replaced by communal spaces, the possibilities for expressive and empowering practice can be greater. They detail narrative work behind walls and borders, real and metaphoric, disciplinary and interdisciplinary, and geographic/demographic. Their narratives traverse communal practice in Islam, in prisons and detention centers, and with forced migrants on the Mexico–US border.
March for the Beloved
Authors: Ha Jarryn 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
“Imŭl Wihan Haengjingok” (March for the Beloved) is a South Korean protest song that has defined the soundscape of demonstrations since the early 1980s. The song’s lyrics speak in the voice of martyred activists of the past that now “awake and … roar” as they urge the living to follow their lead in a shared political cause, even toward possible martyrdom. The song establishes a connection between activists of the past and those of today, building upon the kut tradition, or community-centered shamanistic rituals to appease ancestors and other spirits. By singing this and other anthems that date back to the 1980s peak of the democratic movement against authoritarianism, today’s South Korean protesters not only claim heirship to a political tradition, but also partake in a mass experience that connects them to their fallen comrades and predecessors. The communal singing of this and other songs serves both as a tribute to the dead and as a community-building, legitimizing experience for the living.
“Cielito Lindo” or “Son de la Negra”?
Authors: Flores Cameo 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
During the Trump presidency (2016–2020), immigration enforcement and policies focused on immigrants coming through the US–Mexico border. President Donald Trump focused his rhetoric on Mexican immigrants, and many US citizens followed suit, describing all immigrants as Mexican. While anti-Trump protestors took to the streets to stand up to his new anti-immigrant policies, the Latinx community sang “Cielito Lindo” and “Son de la Negra” to reclaim mariachi as cultural identity in the face of anti-immigrant sentiment. Utilizing singing as an expression of collective Latin American identity confirmation and solidarity, “Cielito Lindo” and “Son de la Negra” became aural signifiers of latinidad. This chapter outlines how mariachi became a cultural symbol of mexicanidad and subsequently latinidad, discusses the homogenization of immigrant culture under “latinidad” as a result of Trump administration rhetoric, and situates “Cielito Lindo” and “Son de la Negra” as songs in which a collective community expresses latinidad solidarity through singing in the face of anti-immigration policies.
Community Singing, the Church of England, and Spirituality
Authors: Boyce-Tillman June 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
The theoretical background of this chapter is cross-disciplinary, drawing on musicology, music well-being, community arts, spirituality, philosophy, theology, and sociology. The focus of the research is to explore aspects of the congregational singing tradition in the Church of England since the Reformation and how those practices are related to spirituality and eudaimonia/well-being in its aspiration for people to live a godly, righteous, and sober life. This chapter includes a review of the history and the literature, identifying themes that are found in the literature on well-being and congregational singing. The author examines the nature of the liminal/spiritual experience in congregational singing and its transformative properties in the church and everyday life, and interrogates this using a eudaimonic frame in a phenomenography of the musical experience that includes materials (relationship with the body), expression (relationship with the feeling world), construction (relationship with the mind), and values (relationship with the social), within the larger domain of the spiritual/liminal (the cosmic). The author looks at the nature of exclusivity and inclusivity in congregational singing and examines who was/is allowed to sing, the nature of the songs, and the singing style that has developed. Finally, the author considers the ways contemporary liturgical developments have challenged the sacred site of communal singing in church, especially the role of the development of technology in this process. It will also raise questions around congregational singing post-pandemic.