Westermarck
Americannoun
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Certainly, there are exceptions…but the Westermarck Effect is most definitely a real thing, it has very solid scientific support, and such exceptions are exceedingly rare.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2012
For years, most scientists discounted a contrary suggestion by Finnish Anthropologist Edward Westermarck that close childhood association discourages erotic feeling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unmarried himself, Dr. Edward Alexander Westermarck is eminently equipped to support his point of view, has written on the subject of marriage for the past 47 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, chap. xlii.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
Westermarck concludes that it was "for the benefit of the young that male and female continued to live together."
From Religious Education in the Family by Henry Frederick Cope
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