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"Parenting our protégés: Mentorship and the parental care motivational system"
Event details of L&M Research Seminar with Charleen Case (University of Michigan)
Date
16 May 2024
Time
13:00 -14:00
Room
Hybrid from REC M4.02

Abstract:

In contrast to many hierarchically stratified relationships in which the high status member tends to focus on their own goals and desires, mentoring dyads are typified by the high status member (the mentor) endeavoring to facilitate the goals of the low status member (the mentee). Across two pilot studies and three experiments (total N = 1643), we establish links between mentorship and the parental care motivational system (Schaller, 2018). Results demonstrate that serving as a mentor activates parenting motives which, in turn, drive costly investment in mentees. Moreover, we find evidence that mentees who exhibit neotenous facial features (i.e., kindchenschema; Lorenz, 1943) elicit greater investment from mentors than do mentees with more mature facial features. These and ancillary findings suggest that the motivational system that evolved to elicit investment in one’s own offspring can overgeneralize to non-kin adults, and promotes costly prosocial behavior at work.

General information:

Attendance to this seminar is possible by invitation only. Please send an e-mail to secbs-abs@uva.nl if your are interested in attending this seminar.

Roeterseilandcampus - building M

Room Hybrid from REC M4.02
Plantage Muidergracht 12
1018 TV Amsterdam