Morningness–Eveningness and
						Sociosexuality from a Life History Perspective

Marvel-Coen, James; Scrivner, Coltan; Maestripieri, Dario

doi:10.4135/9781526451200.n4

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“…Piffer, 2010;Randler et al, 2012b;Putilov, 2014;Ponzi et al, 2015a,b). More generally, the findings presented reflect a well-established 'fast' or 'slow' pattern of individual-level life history variation (Del Giudice et al, 2016; Del Giudice, 2020; Nettle and Frankenhuis, 2020), namely, a tradeoff between investing in immediate rewards and short-term mating vs. in parenting, longevity and health (Sherman et al, 2013;Ponzi et al, 2015b;Marvel-Coen et al, 2018). This evolved nocturnal profile contains elements considered to represent adaptive implementations of a fast life-history strategy (Ponzi et al, 2015b;Marvel-Coen et al, 2018), which prioritizes risky sexual behaviors and short-term rewards over pandemic-mitigating measures and health behaviors (Sherman et al, 2013;Luoto et al, 2019;Arnot et al, 2020;Corpuz et al, 2020).…”

Section: Sexual Selection For Eveningness and Fast Life History Stratsupporting

confidence: 61%

“…Besides the connection between each aspect of the nocturnal profile with mating success, promiscuity, and fast life history, these traits are also directly related to the evening-orientation, as we have established in the previous section ( Ponzi et al, 2015b ; Marvel-Coen et al, 2018 ). Evening-oriented individuals cross-culturally exhibit higher tendencies for short-term mating and, indeed, have more casual sex ( Cross, 2010 ; Piffer, 2010 ; Gunawardane et al, 2011 ; Ponzi et al, 2015b ; Matchock, 2018 ; Díaz-Morales et al, 2019 ).…”

Section: Sexual Selection For Eveningness and Fast Life History Stratmentioning

confidence: 77%

“…Increased night-time activity may have amplified existing psychological variation in our species in response to key night-time adaptive challenges (cf. Marvel-Coen et al, 2018 ).…”

Section: The Use Of Fire Expanded the Night-time Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This adaptive challenge, among others, could have selected for evening-oriented individuals to be more willing to engage in activities that go against social desirability, such as promiscuity, aggression, rule-breaking behavior, self-interested remorseless, and interpersonal manipulation. In effect, evening-oriented individuals are more prone to casual sex, cross-culturally ( Cross, 2010 ; Piffer, 2010 ; Ponzi et al, 2015b ; Matchock, 2018 ; Díaz-Morales et al, 2019 ), have a faster life history strategy ( Ponzi et al, 2015b ; Marvel-Coen et al, 2018 ), have first intercourse at an earlier age ( Kasaeian et al, 2019 ), have higher tendencies toward aggression ( Schlarb et al, 2014 ), exhibit higher rule-breaking behavior ( Merikanto et al, 2017 ), and have higher Dark Triad personality traits, that is, Machiavellianism (e.g., exploitative behaviors), narcissism (e.g., self-orientation), and subclinical psychopathy (e.g., lack of empathy and remorse) ( Jonason et al, 2013 ). Men, the more nocturnal sex ( Piffer, 2010 ; Fischer et al, 2017 ), also exhibit higher propensity to casual sex ( Schmitt, 2005 ; Hughes et al, 2020 ), higher aggression ( Archer, 2004 , 2019 ; Cross, 2010 ), and higher Dark Triad personality traits ( Furnham et al, 2013 ).…”

Section: Night-time Adaptive Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Evening-orientation is related to higher testosterone in men ( Randler et al, 2012a ), and testosterone also coordinates life history strategies across species ( Luoto et al, 2019 ). Hence, the evening-oriented chronotype has been considered to be implementing a fast life history strategy ( Ponzi et al, 2015b ; Marvel-Coen et al, 2018 ).…”

Section: Sexual Selection For Eveningness and Fast Life History Stratmentioning

confidence: 99%

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COVID-19 Pandemic on Fire: Evolved Propensities for Nocturnal Activities as a Liability Against Epidemiological Control

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Humans have been using fire for hundreds of millennia, creating an ancestral expansion toward the nocturnal niche. The new adaptive challenges faced at night were recurrent enough to amplify existing psychological variation in our species. Night-time is dangerous and mysterious, so it selects for individuals with higher tendencies for paranoia, risk-taking, and sociability (because of security in numbers). During night-time, individuals are generally tired and show decreased self-control and increased impulsive behaviors. The lower visibility during night-time favors the partial concealment of identity and opens more opportunities for disinhibition of self-interested behaviors. Indeed, individuals with an evening-oriented chronotype are more paranoid, risk-taking, extraverted, impulsive, promiscuous, and have higher antisocial personality traits. However, under some circumstances, such as respiratory pandemics, the psychobehavioral traits favored by the nocturnal niche might be counter-productive, increasing contagion rates of a disease that can evade the behavioral immune system because its disease cues are often nonexistent or mild. The eveningness epidemiological liability hypothesis presented here suggests that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the evening-oriented psychobehavioral profile can have collectively harmful consequences: there is a clash of core tendencies between the nocturnal chronotype and the recent viral transmission-mitigating safety guidelines and rules. The pandemic safety protocols disrupt much normal social activity, particularly at night when making new social contacts is desired. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is contagious even in presymptomatic and asymptomatic individuals, which enables it to mostly evade our evolved contagious disease avoidance mechanisms. A growing body of research has indirectly shown that individual traits interfering with social distancing and anti-contagion measures are related to those of the nocturnal chronotype. Indeed, some of the social contexts that have been identified as superspreading events occur at night, such as in restaurants, bars, and nightclubs. Furthermore, nocturnal environmental conditions favor the survival of the SARS-CoV-2 virus much longer than daytime conditions. We compare the eveningness epidemiological liability hypothesis with other factors related to non-compliance with pandemic safety protocols, namely sex, age, and life history. Although there is not yet a direct link between the nocturnal chronotype and non-compliance with pandemic safety protocols, security measures and future empirical research should take this crucial evolutionary mismatch and adaptive metaproblem into account, and focus on how to avoid nocturnal individuals becoming superspreaders, offering secure alternatives for nocturnal social activities.

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Section: Sexual Selection For Eveningness and Fast Life History Stratsupporting

confidence: 61%

Section: Sexual Selection For Eveningness and Fast Life History Stratmentioning

confidence: 77%

“…Increased night-time activity may have amplified existing psychological variation in our species in response to key night-time adaptive challenges (cf. Marvel-Coen et al, 2018 ).…”

Section: The Use Of Fire Expanded the Night-time Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%