Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Edward Westermarck (1862-1939) was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo. He is known for first noting the Westermarck effect in which infants raised together are unable to form sexual feelings for one another as adults, regardless of their genetic relationship. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.