I don’t know if it’s on-topic, but “trust your parents” seems to be a pretty good heuristic, evolutionarily speaking. Your parents were successful enough to produce at least one child, and the advice they give will be tuned to your genetics and environment more than average.
An obvious side-effect of this is that you will believe a lot of stupid stuff that your parents tell you.
(Even more off-topic: do people with more siblings trust their parents more?)
and the advice they give will be tuned to your genetics and environment more than average.
Nitpick: Having offspring is not sufficient for being above average in any evolutionary sense. Though the original point (believing parents due to them usually being helpful to you for survival) still stands.
And not off-topic, but actually interesting. But as in other cultures upbringing and education is often more strongly associated with a larger part of family and also the peer group, I doubt we would see much there.
I don’t know if it’s on-topic, but “trust your parents” seems to be a pretty good heuristic, evolutionarily speaking. Your parents were successful enough to produce at least one child, and the advice they give will be tuned to your genetics and environment more than average.
An obvious side-effect of this is that you will believe a lot of stupid stuff that your parents tell you.
(Even more off-topic: do people with more siblings trust their parents more?)
Nitpick: Having offspring is not sufficient for being above average in any evolutionary sense. Though the original point (believing parents due to them usually being helpful to you for survival) still stands.
And not off-topic, but actually interesting. But as in other cultures upbringing and education is often more strongly associated with a larger part of family and also the peer group, I doubt we would see much there.