英文摘要 |
In an intimate relationship, there often exists a risk of sexual betrayal, such as infidelity in dating or in marriage, or abandoning partner when the better one appears. Being betrayed, from evolutionary point of view, is an adaptive problem which reduce the reproductive success. This paper explain how love, a kind moral emotion, play as a part of adaptation to resolve the adaptive problem. Firstly, Herrnstein’s matching law is used to explain how love help to resist the speciously attractive rewards of sexual betrayal, which come from the cognitive biases of the different time-discounting benefit and cost when consider a sexual betrayal. Secondly, following Frank’s evolutionary game model of moral sentiments, the paper find that the numbers of infidelity and fidelity will both share a proportion in a population after the evolutionary process reach a "break-even point". |