Frank Salter

Social Technologies Consulting

Increasingly there is an appreciation for face-to-face relationships in workplace interactions, and concomitantly emotion encoding and decoding. However, little research has considered how facial displays of emotion are interpreted based upon the poser's workplace status and the influence of their sex. To consider this, this article first reviews l...

Unreciprocated aid among co-ethnics and the emotional intensity of ethnic conflict have long been explanatory challenges to evolutionary science. J.P. Rushton’s theory of assortative ethnic affiliation–altruism, mating and friendship directed towards fellow ethnics–derives from his more general theory of genetic similarity (GST). GST proposes that...

Ethnic nepotism theory predicts that even in times of communal peace altruism is more pronounced within than between ethnic groups. The present study tested the hypothesis that altruism in the form of alms giving would be greater within than between ethnic groups, and greater between more closely related groups than between more distant groups. The...

Kin selection, the popular name given to William Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness, has been successful in predicting variation in human altruism shown towards kin of different proximity. Kin-selection theory interprets the behavioural universal of nepotism to be a product of evolutionary history. In that theory, the rigors of natural selectio...

Research investigating the influence and character of nonverbal leader displays has been carried out in a systematic fashion since the early 1980s, yielding growing insight into how viewers respond to the televised facial display behavior of politicians. This article reviews the major streams of research in this area by considering the key ethologi...

The ethologically oriented method of social analysis developed by Edward Westermarck is applied to the subjects of charitable behavior, the welfare ethic, and the link between them. Westermarck dealt with these topics, but not in the depth he accorded the subjects of incest aversion, the incest prohibition, and the connection between them. Westerma...

This paper discusses likely causes of a thirty-year delay in quantifying the kinship, or relatedness, between random members of ethnic groups. The introduction consists of reporting that quantification (Harpending 2002; Salter 2002), briefly discussing its constituent theoretical steps, and pointing to its theoretical importance. The main goal is t...

The author presents an overview of the contribution that evolutionary theory has made, and can make, to studies of ethnically based social cohesion in the social sciences.

A hypothesis derived from evolutionary theory and previous qualitative observation is that male and female subordinates deploy different interpersonal signals to obtain concessions from powerful males. The present study tested this hypothesis by means of a quantitative naturalistic observational method. Would-be patrons were videotaped approaching...

Analyses of the costs and benefits of immigration have not considered the dependence of an ethny's reproductive fitness on its monopoly of a demarcated territory. Global assays of human genetic variation allow estimation of the genetic losses incurred by a member of a population when random fellow ethnics are replaced by immigrants from different e...

Human Nature and Politics. SomitAlbert and LoscoJoseph (eds.). Volume 3 of Research in Biopolitics, edited by SomitA. and PetersonS. A.Greenwich, CT:JAI Press,1995, 305 pp. US$73.25 cloth. ISBN 1-55938-866-8. JAI Press, 55 Old Post Rd., No. 2, P.O. Box 1678, Greenwich, CT 06836, USA. - Volume 15 Issue 2 - Frank Kemp Salter

The article introduces and elaborates the hypothesis of carrier features, characteristics which in females are attractive to males as mate-choice cues. Female carrier features increase paternal resemblance and are ultimately attractive because they help pair-bonded males distinguish genetic offspring from those conceived by mates in extra-pair copu...

Staying Human in the Organization: Our Biological Heritage and the Workplace. BernhardJ. Gary and GlantzKalmanWestport, CT: Praeger, 1992, 163 pp. US$42.95 cloth. ISBN 0-275-94295-3. Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881, USA. - Volume 14 Issue 2 - Frank Kemp Salter

The Social Cage: Human Nature and the Evolution of Society. MaryanskiAlexandra, TurnerJonathan H., Stanford, CA:Stanford University Press,1992, 213 pp. US$39.50 cloth. ISBN 0-8047-2002-9. US$12.95 paper. ISBN 0-8047-2003-7. Stanford University Press, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. - Volume 14 Issue 1 - Frank Kemp Salter

Excellent reviews are available of quality research into the phenomenon of work-related stress and of methods for assessing stress-related behaviour. This review supplements academic research by adopting a managerial perspective, rating methods according to practicality. The conclusion organises the various research methods so as to take into accou...