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This talk will introduce you to the field of evolutionary psychology, its foundational principles and methods as well as common misunderstandings, questions and legitimate concerns. Diana ...
31 maj 2013 · Sapolsky’s Theory of Evolutionary Psychology. Our Mind is Not a Blank Slate: Evolutionary Psychologists Leda Cosmides & John Tooby. A video about Evolutionary Psychology, that hopefully...
Get early access to our latest psychology lectures: http://bit.ly/new-talks5In this week’s episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Paul Gilber...
7 kwi 2008 · Two aspects of evolutionary psychology make this clear. First, the evolutionary approach is, properly speaking, a strategic one: evolution predisposes us to maximise fitness, and the evolutionary approach seeks to discover the rules we use in doing this.
20 gru 2012 · He argues that evolutionary psychology can provide, along with an eye on cultural history and rapidly changing economic circumstances, more detailed understanding of why and how these biases occur, and perhaps a framework for reducing their most severe consequences.
Two major evolutionary psychological theories are described: Sexual strategies theory describes the psychology of human mating strategies and the ways in which women and men differ in those strategies. Error management theory describes the evolution of biases in the way we think about everything.
In this article, we look at the origins of the evolutionary approach in psychology, from the popularisation of the theory by Charles Darwin, and explore examples which demonstrate how cognitive modules serve a purpose in helping humans and other animals to reproduce.
