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The life history model of the insurance hypothesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2017

Bin-Bin Chen
Bin-Bin Chen*
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Department of Psychology, Fudan University, 200433, Shanghai, China. chenbinbin@fudan.edu.cn http://ice.ssdpp.fudan.edu.cn/binbinchen/
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Abstract

Nettle et al.’s explanation based on the insurance hypothesis applies only to the association between food insecurity and body weight among adult women, but not to the results about there being no such associations among adult men and children. These results may be best understood when the insurance hypothesis is integrated with the life history model.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e111
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