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Comparative Psychology: A Perspective Rather than a Discipline. Commentary: A Crisis in Comparative Psychology: Where Have All the Undergraduates Gone? [PDF]
, 2015 We criticize two assumptions behind Abramson's emphasis on an academic crisis of comparative psychology: the identification of psychology with the study of behavior; the idea that the study of cognition is based on \u201csuppositions\u201d and ...
Cinzia, Chiandetti, Walter, Gerbino
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Linking metacognition and mindreading: Evidence from autism and dual-task investigations [PDF]
, 2020 Questions of how we know our own and other minds, and whether metacognition and mindreading rely on the same processes, are longstanding in psychology and philosophy.
Carruthers, P. +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Some heterosexual men express sexual interest in feminine trans individuals with penises. It is possible that this interest arises from a tendency for heterosexual men to be sexually responsive to gender in addition to sex.
Lanna J. Petterson, Paul L. Vasey
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Human Sperm Competition: A Comparative Evolutionary Analysis [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2014 Sperm competition occurs when a female copulates with two or more males within a sufficiently brief time period, resulting in sperm of the different males competing to fertilize ova.
Michael N. Pham, Todd K. Shackelford
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Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Inhibitory control, the ability to override a dominant response, is crucial in many aspects of everyday life. In animal studies, striking individual variations are often largely ignored and their causes rarely considered.
Louise Loyant +3 more
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Types of Comparative Studies in Cross-Cultural Psychology [PDF]
, 2009 From a methodological perspective cross-cultural studies in psychology differ in three dimensions. First, cross-cultural psychological studies can be exploratory or test specific hypotheses. Second, some cross-cultural studies compare countries or ethnic
van de Vijver, Fons J. R.
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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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Higher social tolerance is associated with more complex facial behavior in macaques
eLife, 2023 The social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity posits that animal societies with more complex social systems require more complex communication systems. We tested the social complexity hypothesis on three macaque species that vary in their
Alan V Rincon +6 more
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Exploring the Emotion of Disgust: Differences in Smelling and Feeling
Chemosensors, 2018 Disgust evolved to motivate humans away from disease cues and may heighten discernment of these cues. Disease cues are often best perceived through our sense of smell, however very few studies have examined how eliciting disgust influences smell ...
Lorenzo D. Stafford +3 more
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Can the science of Prosocial be a part of evolution education?
Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2020 We provide a brief overview of Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups by Paul Atkins, David Sloan Wilson, and Steven Hayes.
Dustin Eirdosh, Susan Hanisch
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