@article{ref1,
title="Rethinking Oedipus: an evolutionary perspective of incest avoidance",
journal="American journal of psychiatry",
year="1993",
author="Erickson, M. T.",
volume="150",
number="3",
pages="411-416",
abstract="The author presents a biological hypothesis of incest avoidance. Pertinent literature from evolutionary biology, ethology, anthropology, and clinical research is reviewed. Secure early bonding to immediate kin predicts later adaptive kin-directed behaviors, including preferential altruism (kin selection) and incest avoidance. Impaired bonding predicts aberrant kin-directed behavior, including diminished altruism, neglect, and an increased incidence of incest. Failed bonding predicts the highest frequency of incest. Secure bonding to kin may function to establish adaptive kin-directed behaviors, including incest avoidance. Bonding is conceived of as the developmental foundation of a form of social attraction, here called &quot;familial attraction,&quot; which is evolutionarily distinct from sexual attraction.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-953X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}