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
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
For years, most scientists discounted a contrary suggestion by Finnish Anthropologist Edward Westermarck that close childhood association discourages erotic feeling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Westermarck refers to the facts which he has collected in his history of marriage as phenomena.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
In Folk-Lore, June 30, 1911, Professor Edward Westermarck gives a particularly full and interesting description of Moroccan customs of this sort.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.
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