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Evolutionary Consumption

2015· other· en· W4250477692 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueWiley Encyclopedia of Management · 2015
Typeother
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDarwinismEvolutionary psychologyConsumption (sociology)Altruism (biology)ReproductionInstinctNarrativeSelection (genetic algorithm)SociologyEpistemologyReciprocalConsummationPsychologySocial psychologyComputer scienceSocial scienceEcologyArtificial intelligencePhilosophyLiteratureBiologyArtPolitical scienceLinguisticsLaw

Abstract

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Abstract Evolutionary consumption is a nascent discipline that applies principles of evolutionary psychology in the study of consumer behavior. The same evolutionary forces that are responsible for the evolution of countless biological phenomena have shaped consumers' minds and bodies. Many consumer phenomena could be mapped onto four overriding Darwinian meta‐drives: survival, reproduction, kin selection, and reciprocal altruism. By studying the contents of cultural products (e.g., song lyrics, literary narratives, movie plotlines), one can identify universal themes that are indicative of a shared human nature that is invariant to time or place. Notwithstanding some staunch resistance from those who possess a poor understanding of the field, the practical and theoretical benefits of Darwinizing consumer research are innumerable. Homo consumericus is a biological creature driven in large part by an evolved consuming instinct.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.063
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0720.009

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.315
Teacher spread0.287 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it