Mother Schema, Obstetric Dilemma, and the Origin of Behavioral Modernity.
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) December 6, 2019 Richard Parncutt 8 citations
What triggered the emergence of uniquely human behaviors (language, religion, music) some 100,000 years ago? A non-circular, speculative theory based on the mother-infant relationship is presented. Infant "cuteness" evokes the infant schema and motivates nurturing; the analogous mother schema (MS) is a multimodal representation of the carer from the fetal/infant perspective, motivating fearless...