Moraes Yago Luksevicius, Valentova Jaroslava Varella, Varella Marco Antonio Correa
Department of Experimental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jun 9;13:925842. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.925842. eCollection 2022.
By conceptualizing Sexual Selection, Darwin showed a way to analyze intra-specific individual differences within an evolutionary perspective. Interestingly, Sexual Selection is often used to investigate the origins of sports, arts, humor, religion and other phenomena that, in several languages, are simply called "play." Despite their manifested differences, these phenomena rely on shared psychological processes, including playfulness. Further, in such behaviors there is usually considerable individual variability, including sex differences, and positive relationship with mating success. However, Sexual Selection is rarely applied in the study of play, with exception to what is concerned as infant training behavior for adult sex roles. We offer an integrated grounding of playful phenomena aligning evolutionary propositions based on sexual selection, which might stimulate further exploration of playfulness within evolutionary perspective.
通过对性选择进行概念化，达尔文展示了一种在进化视角下分析种内个体差异的方法。有趣的是，性选择常被用于研究体育、艺术、幽默、宗教以及其他在多种语言中被简单称为“游戏”的现象的起源。尽管这些现象表现各异，但它们都依赖于包括嬉戏性在内的共同心理过程。此外，在这类行为中通常存在相当大的个体差异，包括性别差异，并且与交配成功率呈正相关。然而，除了被视为成人性别角色的婴儿训练行为外，性选择很少应用于游戏研究。我们基于性选择提出了一个整合的基础，将嬉戏现象与进化命题相结合，这可能会激发在进化视角下对嬉戏性的进一步探索。
