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An Introduction to Comparative Evolutionary Psychology [PDF]
Evolutionary Psychology, 2013 Previously we ( Vonk and Shackelford, 2012 , in press) proposed an integration of comparative psychology and evolutionary psychology into a new field of “comparative evolutionary psychology.” This integrative discipline incorporates principles from ...
Jennifer Vonk, Todd K. Shackelford
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Grand challenges of evolutionary psychology [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2010 SHARED CHALLENGES Researchers in evolutionary psychology face the same grand challenges as researchers who eschew the evolutionary approach in their own fi elds of study. Why, and when, do people behave altruistically? How do people make decisions, economic or otherwise, and what role do emotions play in decisionmaking? How do people choose their mates?
RobertKurzban
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Misrepresentations of Evolutionary Psychology in Sex and Gender Textbooks [PDF]
Evolutionary Psychology, 2014 Evolutionary psychology has provoked controversy, especially when applied to human sex differences. We hypothesize that this is partly due to misunderstandings of evolutionary psychology that are perpetuated by undergraduate sex and gender textbooks.
Benjamin M. Winegard +2 more
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Physical attractiveness predicts endorsement of specific evolutionary psychology principles. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Evolutionary psychology has emerged as a controversial discipline, particularly with regard to its claims concerning the biological basis of sex differences in human mate preferences. Drawing on theories of motivated inference, we hypothesized that those
Andrew Ward, Tammy English, Mark Chin
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The Dilemmas of Scientific Research Cooperation and Their Resolution From the Perspective of Evolutionary Psychology [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Scientific research cooperation has become a mainstream trend of social development. It can promote resource sharing, help group members complement each other’s advantages, and improve scientific research efficiency.
Gaofeng Wang, Qingqing Kong
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Economics and Evolutionary Psychology
InDret, 2008 Evolutionary psychology2 starts from two simple assumptions: The human mind is best understood not as a general purpose computer but as a set of specialized software modules, each designed to deal with a particular subset of problems. Those programs have been designed by Darwinian evolution to produce reproductive success in our environment of ...
David D. Friedman
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From computers to cultivation: reconceptualizing evolutionary psychology [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Does evolutionary theorizing have a role in psychology? This is a more contentious issue than one might imagine, given that as evolved creatures, the answer must surely be yes.
Louise eBarrett +3 more
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The Epistemology of Evolutionary Psychology Offers a Rapprochement to Cultural Psychology [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Many detractors of evolutionary psychology (EP) presume that adaptive arguments are nothing more than whimsical and unfalsifiable just-so stories. The reality though is that the epistemology of EP is precisely the opposite of this antiquated canard in ...
Gad Saad
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An Introduction to Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology, 2014 Evolutionary developmental psychology represents a synthesis of modern evolutionary theory and developmental psychology. Here we introduce the special issue on evolutionary developmental psychology by briefly discussing the history of this field and then
Karin Machluf +2 more
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Evolutionary Psychology in the Modern World: Applications, Perspectives, and Strategies [PDF]
Evolutionary Psychology, 2012 An evolutionary approach is a powerful framework which can bring new perspectives on any aspect of human behavior, to inform and complement those from other disciplines, from psychology and anthropology to economics and politics.
S. Craig Roberts +2 more
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