Evolutionary psychology seeks to identify and understand human psychological traits that have evolved in much the same way as biological traits, through...

Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks...

The history of evolutionary psychology began with Charles Darwin, who said that humans have social instincts that evolved by natural selection. Darwin's...

trend of neo-Darwinian thought in intellectual disciplines beyond those traditionally considered as evolutionary biology: evolutionary psychology, evolutionary...

Positive psychology is the scientific study of conditions and processes that contribute to positive psychological states (e.g., contentment, joy), well-being...

including content issues, lack of close captioning and pricing. This article provides an overview of key criticisms the company has faced. In October...

evolutionary psychology of religion is the study of religious belief using evolutionary psychology principles. It is one approach to the psychology of...

Evolutionary educational psychology is the study of the relation between inherent folk knowledge and abilities and accompanying inferential and attributional...

alternative account of the cause of mental disorder, evolutionary psychiatry seeks to integrate findings from traditional schools of psychology and psychiatry...

of behaviorism, and empiricism more generally, initiated what would come to be known as the "cognitive revolution". Inside psychology, in criticism of...

Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious...

emotion; developmental processes, social psychology, and the neural substrates of all of these. Experimental psychology emerged as a modern academic discipline...

Buller, piecing together his criticism of evolutionary psychology. A large portion of the book is dedicated to a critique of empirical findings from three...

regarding research methods in sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. However, the first widely acknowledged use of the phrase in the modern and pejorative...

Evolutionary developmental psychology (EDP) is a research paradigm that applies the basic principles of evolution by natural selection, to understand...

perspectives on modularity come from evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychologists propose that the mind is made up of genetically influenced and domain-specific...

of Psychology. 59: 647–672. doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093710. PMID 17883335. Paul H. Rubin and C. Monica Capra. The evolutionary psychology...

Terror management theory (TMT) is both a social and evolutionary psychology theory originally proposed by Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, and Tom Pyszczynski...

Psychosocial examination of crime Criticism of evolutionary psychology – Controversy in psychology Evolution of morality – Emergence of human moral behavior...

The psychology of music, or music psychology, is a branch of psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and/or musicology. It aims to explain and understand...

argue that evolutionary psychology can account for rape among human beings, maintain that rape is either a behavioral adaptation or a byproduct of adaptive...

drivers of economic evolution. The support for the evolutionary approach to economics in recent decades seems to have initially emerged as a criticism of the...

fitness than just losing and gaining. Criticism of evolutionary psychology Evolutionary psychology Gene-centered view of evolution Hamiltonian spite Kin selection...

Minds, in which he presents a detailed philosophical critique of evolutionary psychology. His research has been supported by a grant from the National...

Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (1st ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. pp. 904–905. ISBN 978-0-471-26403-3. Nesse, Randolph M. (2016) [2005]. "43. Evolutionary Psychology...

the study of human societies, sociobiology is closely allied to evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology...

disciplines—such as anthropology, evolutionary psychology, primatology, biology, and sexology—have been highly critical of the book's methodology and conclusions...

Evolutionary aesthetics refers to evolutionary psychology theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo sapiens are argued to have evolved...

(born 1965) is an American evolutionary psychologist, author, and associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico. He is known for...

Social psychology is the methodical study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others...