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 | | Evolutionary psychologists are missionaries, advocating a set of principles that define the meaning of life and seeking to convert others to their beliefs. | | | Evolutionary psychologists also apply their theories to the explanation of gender differences and to prescriptions about appropriate moral behaviour. | | | Evolutionary psychologists admit there is a paucity of examples for behavioural genetics. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4252581,00.html
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| | evolutionary psychology: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Evolutionary psychology is closely linked to the field of sociobiology, but there are key differences between them including the emphasis on domain specific rather than domain general faculties, on the relevance of measures of current fitness, on the importance of mismatch theory and on psychology rather than behavior. | | | Evolutionary psychologists respond by saying that like any other branch of science, evolutionary psychologists only claim to state what is, and not what ought to be. | | | Evolutionary psychology (or EP) proposes that human and primate cognition and behavior could be better understood by examining them in light of human and primate evolutionary history. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/evolutionary-psychology
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| | EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EATING |
| | Evolutionary theory can help us to see how humans may have evolved to exhibit these behaviors, and how all of these behaviors appear to be ones that would have helped humans to survive in nature. | | | Evolutionary theory can be an extremely helpful theoretical framework for Psychology. | | | An additional advantage to using evolutionary theory as the overall framework for Psychology is that, given evolutionary theory's extensive use in other disciplines, the use of evolutionary theory in understanding psychological phenomena can help to demonstrate the commonalities among Psychology and these other disciplines (Zeiler, 1992). |
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http://darwin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty/LogueA.html
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| | Sex Differences in Mate Preferences, Jealousy, and Aggression |
| | Evolutionary psychologists and social structural theorists have offered many important theories that explain why males and females are different from each other and in what context differences exist. | | | Evolutionary psychologists believe that aggression is linked through genes and has been maintained biologically as people have adapted to a changing environment. | | | Evolutionary psychologists have developed a theory to explain the origins of differences between men and women. |
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http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/denisiuk.html
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| | Evolution, Culture and Developmental Psychology: |
| | Evolutionary psychologists would emphasize that, in order to explain caregiver-infant interactions, it is necessary to understand the adaptive problems (i.e., recurring conditions that affected reproductive fitness) of caregivers and infants in the EEA and the modules or design features of their minds that developed under EEA conditions. | | | Evolutionary psychologists have conducted few systematic studies of infant caregiving, so what we present here is based upon our understanding of this approach and how it might be applied to the analyses of infant caregiving. | | | Evolutionary psychologists are interested in identifying biologically based (i.e., genetic) universals of the human mind that evolved during the EEA and continue to shape human behavior. |
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http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/hewlett/cultevol.html
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| | J. Michael Bailey, biological determinism and evolutionary psychology |
| | Evolutionary psychology, as a method, is hopelessly reductionist. | | | Instead, all that the evolutionary psychologist offers is a narrative of human evolution that even E. Wilson admits suffers from "a scarcity of information." It is a narrative that does a poor job of describing the vast and complicated landscape of human social evolution and interaction. | | | Evolutionary psychologists, however, exaggerate the influence of socially constructed identities by giving undue primacy to the gene. |
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http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/biological-determinism.html
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| | Evolutionary psychology: "fashionable ideology" or "new foundation"? By Oliver Curry |
| | Evolutionary psychologists look at, amongst other things, permutations in behaviour in order to work out what the underlying rules are and how they operate. | | | One implication of the evolutionary psychologists' view that the human mind took its current form in the Pleistocene is that all modern humans share a universal human nature. | | | This research, which necessarily involves cross-cultural studies, commits evolutionary psychologists to a strongly "environmentalist" position: the idea that differences in behaviour are largely the product of differences in environmental -- physical, social or cultural -- factors. |
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http://human-nature.com/nibbs/03/curry.html
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| | Evolutionary Psychology |
| | Evolutionary psychologists (EP) are interested in studying the evolved cognitive structure of the mind. | | | Evolutionary psychologists are interested in studying psychological mechanisms that are universal, hence having little or no genetic differences among individuals. | | | Proximate or immediate causes are the immediate factors responsible for a particular response, such as internal physiology, previous experience, conditions in the environment, etc. Although the mechanisms and decision processes they study are proximate, evolutionary psychologists believe these mechanisms were shaped by natural selection. |
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http://www.sfu.ca/~janicki/defn.htm
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| | EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY |
| | Evolutionary psychologists, on the other hand, argue that the whole mind, including the central processes, are likely to be modular (Sperber, 1994). | | | Unlike most cognitive psychologists who regard the mind as a general-purpose problem-solver, evolutionary psychologists argue that the mind consists of a large number of special-purpose devices, which are usually referred to as 'modules'. | | | 's theory by psychologists throughout much of the twentieth century was closely connected with the culturalist theory that dominated psychological research in emotion during this time. |
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http://www.waynrigg.demon.co.uk/evolut/lecture5/lectureemotion.htm
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| | The (Im)moral Animal |
| | In the view of most evolutionary psychologists, the modules may differ in effectiveness from one individual to another, but given the number of different modules, their effect is to "average out" individual differences to the point where any attempt to "line everyone up" on a single dimension is as nebulous as Casey's syntax. | | | Harry Schlinger, a psychologist at Western New England College, critically analyzes evolutionary theories and argues that human behavior can be more scientifically and parsimoniously explained in terms of the verifiable laws of learning, without recourse to evolutionary or genetic arguments. | | | But most of today's evolutionary psychologists are concerned with the universals of human nature, not the differences. |
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http://www.skeptic.com/04.1.miele-immoral.html
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| | SCI 240 - Paper #2 |
| | Topic II Evolutionary psychologists argue that there are only two reasons why altruistic behavior could have evolved as an adaptation in human beings. | | | Provide a brief argument illustrating why the behaviors and personality traits evolutionary psychologists ascribe to women or men seem likely to evolve in the way they suggest, or explain why the evolutionary scenario they describe seems implausible. | | | State clearly in your introductory paragraph whether or not you think that the explanation for altruism provided by evolutionary psychology justifies a lack of concern for people whom we never expect to meet and to whom we are not related. |
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http://darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/sci240/paper-2.html
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| | Taking the 'vs.' out of nature vs. nurture |
| | Evolutionary psychologists use these terms in their Darwinian senses: Adaptations are biological changes that became more frequent among humans because they contributed to reproductive success over millions of years in the ancestral environment. | | | "Evolutionary psychology can examine the evolved human potential for culture, whereas cultural psychology can show how that potential is transformed to yield a functioning psychological system," said cultural psychologist Shinobu Kitayama, PhD, of the University of Michigan. | | | Cultural and evolutionary psychologists differ, however, in what they mean by the terms "adaptation," "time" and "environment," he said. |
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http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov04/nature.html
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| | Chapter Eight( |
| | Before we can use the evolutionary perspective as an organizing framework for studying human social behavior, there are a few theoretical issues that need to be discussed because they are especially salient for the study of social behavior. | | | Psychologists and sociologists are the social scientists most directly involved with the study of social behavior in contemporary industrialized societies. | | | While the tradition of research driven by the SSSM has undoubtedly led to important discoveries by social psychologists, many in the field (e.g., Rozin, 2001) worry that the discipline of social psychology is beginning to suffer because it has unreasonably restricted the range of theoretical and methodological approaches that are considered acceptable. |
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http://faculty.knox.edu/fmcandre/evsocial.html
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| | jealosy |
| | In one paper, to appear in the November issue of The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers led by Dr. David DeSteno, a psychologist at Northeastern University, assert that the sex difference revealed in many studies of jealousy by evolutionary psychologists is spurious, an artifact of the particular method used in those studies. | | | It is also supported by a variety of studies finding evidence for such a sex difference, many of them carried out by Dr. David M. Buss, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas, and his colleagues. | | | At least, that's the theory advanced by evolutionary psychologists, who in the last decade have ushered Darwinian theory into new and provocative areas, including the relationship between the sexes. |
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http://www.vepachedu.org/jealosy.htm
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| | RedNova News - Science - Teaching the new baby to talk with biologists! |
| | This reaction has tended to bias psychologists against recognizing that recapitulation is a particular outcome of the more general phenomenon of heterochrony, or evolutionary changes in the timing of development. | | | Because, at the same time that psychologists are on the brink of discovering new paradigms for thinking about the evolution of development, some of them carry a legacy of problematic interpretations of such key evolutionary constructs as phylogenetic reconstruction, heterochrony, and the origins of hereditary characteristics. | | | I hope the new generation of evolutionary psychologists, developmental, comparative, and otherwise, will engage in increased communication with biologists and their literature. |
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http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/2/2003/10/02/story110.html
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| | Evolutionary Psychology Teaches Rape 101 Judith Shulevitz |
| | He did not foresee the day when evolutionary psychologists would call for the government to sponsor their theories in a way virtually guaranteed to generate the very behaviors they are supposed to prevent. | | | Here's her beef with it: Evolutionary psychology is not very good on the aspect of the human psyche she's personally most interested in, which is how humans are different from animals. | | | Back in 1994, when journalist Robert Wright popularized the field of evolutionary psychology with his book The Moral Animal, he wrote an article on ev psych and feminism in which he acknowledged that evolutionary psychology would be used to "naturalize" sexist behavior. |
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http://slate.msn.com/id/1004368
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| | Evolutionary Psychology FAQ |
| | Are evolutionary psychologists primarily interested in what makes humans different from other animals? | | | Do evolutionary psychologists think that everything is an adaptation? | | | Is evolutionary psychology another form of genetic determinism? |
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http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/evpsychfaq.html
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| | Leda Cosmides |
| | She developed her interest in rebuilding psychology along evolutionary lines while an undergraduate at Harvard, where she got her A.B. in biology (1979) and her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology (1985). | | | Leda Cosmides is best known for her work in pioneering the new field of evolutionary psychology. | | | She and John Tooby founded and co-direct the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology. |
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http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/cosmides/index.php
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| | Gene Expression: Chris against the evolutionary psychologists.... |
| | In the spirit of following up on my post in relation to Chris of Mixing Memory, here is his critique of Evolutionary Psychology. | | | Addendum: If you are curious, my skepticism with Tooby and Cosmides model emerges from my concerns about the plausibility of the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation (EEA) and the concomitant prevelance of monomorphism in relation to complex behavorial adaptations. | | | I added the "trademark" superscript because Chris is assailing the paradigm put forward by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby. |
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http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003812.html
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