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Cultural evolutionary psychology is still evolutionary psychology [PDF]
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019 AbstractThe cognitive gadgets theory proposes to reform evolutionary psychology by replacing the standard nativist and internalist approach to modularity with a cultural constructivist one. However, the resulting “cultural evolutionary psychology” still maintains some controversial aspects of the original neo-Darwinian paradigm.
Marco Fenici, Duilio Garofoli
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An Evolutionary Perspective on Health Psychology: New Approaches and Applications [PDF]
Evolutionary Psychology, 2012 Although health psychologists' efforts to understand and promote health are most effective when guided by theory, health psychology has not taken full advantage of theoretical insights provided by evolutionary psychology. Here, we argue that evolutionary
Joshua M. Tybur +2 more
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Examining the Acceptance of and Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology, 2010 The field of psychology remains a divided one. Several different sub-disciplines (e.g., developmental, cognitive, behaviorism, social, etc.) form what could be a unified scientific area. However, there is no widely accepted theory of unification. Charles
Carey J. Fitzgerald +1 more
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Evolutionary and Differential Psychology: Conceptual Conflicts and the Path to Integration [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Evolutionary psychology has seen the majority of its success exploring adaptive features of the mind believed to be ubiquitous across our species.
Tim eMarsh, Simon eBoag
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Evolutionary personality psychology.
, 2015 The field of psychology historically has been split between those who focus on human nature or species-typical characteristics and those who focus on the major ways in which individuals differ. This split is reflected within personality psychology, within evolutionary psychology, and within the broader field of psychology writ large.
Buss, David M. +5 more
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, 2013 Evolutionary psychology (EP) is an approach to the study of the mind that is founded on Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. It assumes that our mental abilities, emotions and preferences are adapted specifically for solving problems of survival and reproduction in humanity's ancestral environment, and derives testable predictions from ...
Dominique Poggi
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The Grand Challenges for Evolutionary Psychology: Survival Challenges for a Discipline. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2017 As defined by some of the founders of the field, Barkow et al. (1992), “evolutionary psychologyis simply psychology that is informed by the additional knowledge that evolutionary biologyhas to offer, in the expectation that understanding the process that ...
Jonason PK.
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Editorial: Insights in: evolutionary psychology 2022 [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyKarlijn Massar +3 more
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How beliefs get in the way of the acceptance of evolutionary psychology. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2014 There can be no doubt there is serious resistance to evolutionary psychology (EP) as a theoretical paradigm from both within the field (e.g., social psychology) and in other disciplines (e.g., social sciences).
Jonason PK, Dane LK.
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Darwin in mind: new opportunities for evolutionary psychology. [PDF]
PLoS Biol, 2011 Evolutionary Psychology (EP) views the human mind as organized into many modules, each underpinned by psychological adaptations designed to solve problems faced by our Pleistocene ancestors.
Bolhuis JJ +3 more
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