My name’s Ethan White and I’m currently trying to finish my PhD in Evolutionary Psychology. I’m interested in the evolution of creativity and language and how it relates ...
... direction of doctors Alfredo Goñi Grandmontagne and Igor Esnaola Etxaniz, of the Department of Evolutionary Psychology and the University School of Education at the UPV/EHU. She currently works as a ...
I’m reading a delightful history of chess, The Immortal Game, by David Shenk, and got to the chapter dealing with the dark side of chess: the factread more
... samples, before and after initiating contraceptive pill use.
Craig Roberts, a Lecturer in Evolutionary Psychology who carried out the work in collaboration with the University of Newcastle, said: " ...
Is music just "auditory cheescake" or can it provide deep insights into the workings of the brain and the evolution of language. From the New Zealand haka to raves and dancing birds, James Randerson ...
... Ethology) and other researchers at the University of Vienna joined economic interest with evolutionary psychology to answer these questions. The research project will be published this week in the ...
... and cognitive abilities.
Wilson challenges my claim that evolutionary psychology cannot tell us much, as a science, about the evolution of social human behavior. He rhetorically asks ...
... of interviews and observations of health workers over a 15-year period. He used an evolutionary psychology approach – incorporating archaeology and anthropology of the earliest known humans – to ...
... Psychology; John Tooby, a professor of anthropology and also co-director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology; Michael Gurven, an associate professor of anthropology; and graduate students ...
... these presumed preferences are when modern individuals choose partners.
In the study, published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, the researchers looked at 400 lonely hearts ads in the Swedish ...
... wallet, the more orgasms his
(female) partner is likely to have. This is supposedly part of
evolutionary psychology that suggests both men and women are
genetically predisposed to ruthlessly exploit ...
... , more or less contemporary with
On the Origin of Species, to later developments such as
evolutionary psychology, aspects of Darwin's theories have been
used as the starting point for explanations of ...
... study in the Journal of Consumer Research. "Our current research supports theories in evolutionary psychology that propose that our emotions can be conceived as a set of 'programs' that have evolved ...
... study should lead evolutionary-oriented researchers to reconsider some earlier assumptions regarding the role of evolutionary psychology in explaining modern fertility behavior," the authors conclude.
David Brooks takes on evolutionary psychology and gets it sort of right:
The first problem is that far from being preprogrammed with a series of hardwired mental modules, as the E.P. types assert, our ...
