It occurred to me that two articles from over 30 years ago didn't sound very
convincing. A new search turned up the same finding, however, in an article
publihed in 2004:
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Kenrick,
Douglas T.; Luce, Carol L.; pp. 237-251. Auckland, New Zealand: Pearson
Education New Zealand, 2004. xii, 324 pp.
(from the chapter) (by Shepher,
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Premarital sexual behavior and marriage patterns were investigated in
Israeli kibbutzim. All adolescents and adults of the second generation (N =
65) in one *kibbutz* were studied. There were no cases of heterosexual
activity between any two native adolescents of the same peer group and no
cases of marriage between any two members of the same peer group. The
avoidance was completely voluntary. Among 2769 *marriages* contracted by
second generation adults in all kibbutzim, there were no cases of intra-peer
group marriage. These findings could represent a case of negative imprinting
whereby collective peer group education which includes an incessant exposure
to peers from the first days of life and an unimpeded tactile relationship
among the peers between ages 0-6 results in sexual avoidance and exogamy.
(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)
Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire
On Jan 14, 2008 5:46 AM, Allen Esterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 13 January 2008 Edward Pollack wrote:
> > [...] Evolutionary psychology/sociobiology posits that we have evolved
> > a tendency for incest avoidance (due to the deleterious effects of
> > inbreeding) and that the incest taboos developed to reinforce the
> > "gut feeling" that most of us have.
>
> This Darwinian argument was, of course, first proposed by Edward
> Westermarck in 1891. It has since been empirically supported by studies
> such as those investigating Israelis brought up in Kibbutzim. Melford E.
> and Audrey G. Spiro write of their study of one specific Kibbutz: "In not
> one instance has a sabra [an individual born and raised in a Kibbutz] from
> Kiryat Yedidim married a fellow sabra, nor, to the best of our knowledge,
> has a sabra had sexual intercourse with a fellow sabra." (1975, p. 347).
> Again, Tiger and Shepher write of Shepher's research on Kibbutzim: "Using
> the census data presented in this volume, Shepher demonstrated that... out
> of some 3,000 kibbutz marriages over three generations there was not one
> between men and women who had been together during the ages of three and
> six." (1975, p. 7)
>
> References:
> Spiro, M.E. and Audrey G. (1975). Children of the Kibbutz. Harvard
> University Press.
> Tiger, L. and Shepher, J. (1977 [1975]). Women in the Kibbutz. Penguin
> Books.
>
> Allen Esterson
> Former lecturer, Science Department
> Southwark College, London
> http://www.esterson.org
>
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