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Why isn’t everyone an Evolutionary Psychologist?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Despite a widespread acceptance that the brain that underpins human psychology is the result of biological evolution, very few psychologists in any way incorporate an evolutionary perspective in their research or practice.
Darren eBurke
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Popular evolutionary psychology in the UK: an unusual case of science in the media? [PDF]
, 2016 PublishedHistorical ArticleJournal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tThis paper presents findings from quantitative analyses of UK press and print media coverage of evolutionary psychology during the 1990s.
Cassidy, A
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Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
Child Development, 2000 Abstract Evolutionary developmental psychology is the study of the genetic and ecological mechanisms that govern the development of social and cognitive competencies common to all human beings and the epigenetic (gene–environment interactions) processes that adapt these competencies to local conditions.
D C, Geary, D F, Bjorklund
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Evolving structure-function mappings in cognitive neuroscience using genetic programming [PDF]
, 2005 A challenging goal of psychology and neuroscience is to map cognitive functions onto neuroanatomical structures. This paper shows how computational methods based upon evolutionary algorithms can facilitate the search for satisfactory mappings by ...
Gobet, F, Parker, A
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The Janus-Faced Nature of Comparative Psychology – Strength or Weakness?
Evolutionary Psychology, 2013 What is the nature of comparative psychology and how does or should it relate to evolutionary psychology? This is a time of reassessment of both fields and this article reviews the history of comparative psychology and its relationships with evolutionary
Gordon M. Burghardt
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“Emotional Nose”: The Hedonic Character of Olfaction and its Epistemological and Clinical Implications [PDF]
, 2020 The olfactory system is the oldest device that most organisms have to perceive their physical and social environment. However, progressing in the evolutionary tree, the importance of the olfactory perception has decreased, and the sight has taken ...
Bochicchio, Vincenzo +3 more
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A Narrative Review of Mate Choice: Evolutionary, Cognitive Orientation and Combined Perspectives [PDF]
Iranian Evolutionary Educational Psychology Journal, 2022 Evolutionary psychology had revolutionized the mate choice in past years and the framework of a cognitive orientation based on intelligence and social status had attracted a lot of attention.
Asie Eftekhari
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The evolutionary psychology of hunger [PDF]
Appetite, 2016 An evolutionary psychological perspective suggests that emotions can be understood as coordinating mechanisms whose job is to regulate various psychological and physiological programs in the service of solving an adaptive problem. This paper suggests that it may also be fruitful to approach hunger from this coordinating mechanism perspective.
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Orangutans modify facial displays depending on recipient attention [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Primate facial expressions are widely accepted as underpinned by reflexive emotional processes and not under voluntary control. In contrast, other modes of primate communication, especially gestures, are widely accepted as underpinned by intentional ...
Bridget M. Waller +2 more
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Rescuing religious non-realism from Cupitt [PDF]
, 2006 Don Cupitt's version of religious non-realism based as it is on linguistic constructivism, radical relativism and the view that culture forms human nature has been attacked with devastating effect by realists in the last few years.
Walker, Ruth
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