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| | Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Evolutionary psychologists respond that their discipline is not concerned with explaining the behavior of specific individuals, but rather broad categories of human behaviors across societies and cultures. | | | Evolutionary psychology is ultimately rooted in the basic theoretical principles that underlie the behavior of all living things: evolutionary theory. | | | Evolutionary psychology has roots in cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology
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| | The Evolution of Evolutionary Psychology |
| | Evolutionary psychology is also criticized as being difficult to falsify, but scientists commend this theory for its fruitfulness and its ability to encompass many different fields of psychology while connecting psychology to the more hardcore sciences. | | | Therefore, it is imperative to examine evolutionary psychology's forerunner, sociobiology, and to dissect the field of evolutionary psychology itself. | | | Evolutionary theory can become a scientifically useful metatheory for personality psychology to the degree that human psychological mechanisms (a) operate according to different principles across different adaptive domains, (b) number in dozens, hundreds, or thousands, (c) are complex solutions to specific adaptive problems. |
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| | What is Evolutionary Psycholgy? |
| | Evolutionary psychology is not a specific sub field of psychology, such as the study of vision, reasoning, or social behavior. | | | Evolutionary psychology is the approach of explaining human behavior based on the combination of evolutionary biology, anthropology, cognitive science, and the neurosciences. | | | Evolutionary psychology is the science that seeks to explain through universal mechanisms of behavior why humans act the way they do (See, Assumptions About EP to Help Guide You). |
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http://www.evoyage.com/Whatis.html
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| | Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby |
| | Evolutionary psychology is an approach to psychology, in which knowledge and principles from evolutionary biology are put to use in research on the structure of the human mind. | | | Evolutionary psychology can be thought of as the application of adaptationist logic to the study of the architecture of the human mind. | | | The goal of research in evolutionary psychology is to discover and understand the design of the human mind. |
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http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html
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| | Great Ideas in Personality--Evolutionary Psychology |
| | Evolutionary psychology is an evolutionary approach to human nature. | | | This paper claims that evolutionary psychology represents an improvement over its forerunner, sociobiology, in that evolutionary psychology does not foreswear the mental, and does not aim to map human nature. | | | Evolutionary ideas have been applied to human social relationships in a number of areas. |
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http://www.personalityresearch.org/evolutionary.html
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| | What is evolutionary psychology? |
| | Evolutionary psychology focuses on the evolved properties of nervous systems, especially those of humans. | | | Evolutionary psychologists often refer to brain functions as psychological adaptations, although they are not qualitatively different from other adaptations. | | | Evolutionary psychologists are betting that cognitive structure, like physiological structure, has been designed by natural selection to serve survival and reproduction. |
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http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/epfaq/ep.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. | | | The focus of evolutionary psychology has been most clearly defined by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, two researchers currently at UC Santa Barbara. |
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http://www.sfu.ca/~janicki/defn.htm
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| | Evolutionary Psychology and Sociology |
| | The Evolutionary Psychology emphasis on history and on adaptability is the welcome addition of dynamics to what has often seemed a static field, divorced from the biology on which it is undoubtably based. | | | Despite much study in psychology, we still do not have an adequate understanding of the interplay of the unconscious on our behaviour, and how this relates to emotional states. | | | This is a major potential benefit of the evolutionary psychology approach. |
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http://www.calresco.org/lucas/evolpsy.htm
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| | Evolutionary Psychology, Behaviorism, and the Incest Taboo |
| | Thus, evolutionary psychology and behavioristic learning theory are incompatible because of their opposing estimates of the heuristic or research value of teleological versus ethologically guided experimental principles, and more significantly, their differing estimates as to the definition of scientific inquiry. | | | The difference is that unlike evolutionary psychology, a bio-behaviorism provides the opportunity for empirical test, and generalization to similar behaviors from established principles that are rooted in empirical data. | | | That behaviorism and evolutionary psychology do not inform and rather neglect each other is rooted in the denial of the epistemological principles that support each subject matter. |
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| | Criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology Aren’t Necessarily Specific to Evolutionary Psychology |
| | The problem is that evolutionary psychology suffers from the scientific equivalent of megalomania. | | | Evolutionary psychology satisfies the postideological hunger for a totalistic explanation of human life, for a theory of inevitability that will remove many of the ambiguities and the uncertainties of emotional and moral life." | | | Evolutionary psychology is an embarrassment to UltraDarwinian biology simply because it makes it possible for non-scientists to see the type of argument that so often permeates this thinking. |
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| | Evolutionary Psychology |
| | From an evolutionary perspective, this is a significant limitation in the psychological adaptability of humans. | | | Many of the skills it develops have counterparts in therapeutic systems such as clinical psychology, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, cognitive therapy and psychoanalysis. | | | However, the essential difference is that in this system, the ‘therapist’ is the new "I" or master—the therapist is internalised as a new psychological structure within the individual. |
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http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/jes999/evpsy.htm
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| | Syllabus for PSY 470(03): Evolutionary Psychology |
| | I use the word "paradigm" advisedly: "Evolutionary psychology" refers not to a specific set of research topics or content area, but rather to a fundamentally different approach to thinking about human nature and how it interacts with environments to produce patterns of cognition, emotion, and behavior. | | | My goal will not be to provide a comprehensive overview of research and theory in evolutionary psychology, but mainly to get you to understand and appreciate its general perspective and how this differs from most other contemporary approaches in psychology. | | | Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer (by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby) |
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http://lakirk.people.wm.edu/syll470.html
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| | Evolutionary Psychology: innateness vs. learning |
| | Evolutionary psychology (EP) is an emerging branch of anthropology and psychology, which have been gaining ground lately. | | | A fundamental tenet of EP is that large part of psychology is innate, as opposed to learned, to the point of rejecting the concept of "learning" altogether (e.g. | | | Tooby and Cosmides (1989) Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, part I. Theoretical considerations Ethology and sociobiology 10 29-49. |
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http://human-brain.org/evolpsy2.html
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| | Evolutionary psychology gets evolution wrong. By Amanda Schaffer |
| | Evolutionary psychologists have long taken heat from critics for overplaying innate characteristics—nature at the expense of nurture—and for reinforcing gender stereotypes. | | | New research suggests that evolutionary change can occur much faster than was previously believed. | | | Surely there's a whole lot of guesswork involved when evolutionary psychologists hypothesize about the human brain's supposedly formative years. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2124503
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| | Evolutionary Psychology |
| | The claim from evolutionary psychology is that our problem-solving abilities are not general ones, but are specifically tuned to deal efficiently with just those problems that evolution would have set as important to us. | | | The first is generally known as 'Theory of Mind' research, and this pursues questions in both developmental and comparative psychology as to what children and other animals know about other minds. | | | It is their work that has done the most to bring this approach to the attention of contemporary psychology. |
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| | Evolutionary Psychology - Editor Todd K. Shackelford, Ph.D. |
| | Evolutionary Psychology is an open-access peer-reviewed journal that aims to foster communication between experimental and theoretical work on the one hand and historical, conceptual and interdisciplinary writings across the whole range of the biological and human sciences on the other. | | | I conclude with a tentative evolutionary psychological analysis of the development and maintenance of the southern culture of honor. | | | Introductory Psychology Texts as a View of Sociobiology/Evolutionary Psychology's Role in Psychology |
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| | NEL, Toward an evolutionary psychology of religiosity |
| | The adapted mind – Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. | | | 22 Cronk L. Evolutionary theories of morality and the manipulative use of signals. | | | evolutionary psychology, religiosity, Darwinian algorithms, cognitive domains, mysticism, ethics, myths, rituals, adaptations |
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| | Intro to the Field |
| | Also, read an interview with Leda Cosmides about what evolutionary psychology is (and is not). | | | The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker -- an outstanding review of what human nature is, and why the "blank slate" approach to human behavior has misguided the social sciences, the humanities, and politics for close to a century. | | | Other introductory resources include: the Evolutionary Psychology FAQ, a brief overview of evolutionary psychology, Cognitive Adaptations: A Tentative Compendium, The Third Culture Beyond the Scientific Revolution. |
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| | Evolutionary psychology for the Common Person |
| | Evolutionary Psychology: An International Journal of Evolutionary Approaches to Psychology and Behavior | | | After you've been studying the principles behind Evolutionary Psychology, or are already established, take a peek and the formal online presence of evolutionary psychology. | | | The Human Behavior and Evolution Society (Places to study EP, 12th button down on left) |
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| | Evolutionary Psychology's Anti-Semite Judith Shulevitz |
| | Intellectually speaking, no. Evolutionary psychology is a fairly new endeavor trying to overcome an extremely disturbing past, and you can't make serious scholars accountable for all the discredited notions their peers cling to. | | | MacDonald thanks several prominent evolutionary psychologists in the acknowledgments to his trilogy. | | | But, remarkably, to Culturebox's knowledge, no American evolutionary psychologist has publicly objected to his work. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/1004446
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| | Cogprints - Subject: Evolutionary Psychology |
| | Evans, Dylan (1999) From moods to modules: preliminary remarks for an evolutionary theory of mood phenomena. | | | Baum, William M. Behavior and the General Evolutionary Process. | | | Reis, Veronica A. and Zaidel, Dahlia W. Functional asymmetry in the human face: Perception of health in the left and right sides of the face. |
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http://cogprints.org/view/subjects/evol-psy.html
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| | Evolutionary Psychology FAQ |
| | Is evolutionary psychology another form of genetic determinism? | | | Are evolutionary psychologists primarily interested in what makes humans different from other animals? | | | Is evolutionary psychology just a politically correct version of sociobiology? |
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| | Publications in Evolutionary Psychology |
| | MacDonald, K. A perspective on Darwinian psychology: The importance of domain-general mechanisms, plasticity, and individual differences. | | | MacDonald, K. An evolutionary perspective on clinical psychology. | | | Segal, N., and MacDonald, K. Behavior Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology: A Unified Perspective on Personality Research. |
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| | Anthro.Net: Evolutionary Psychology |
| | Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology | | | The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology | | | Contains an online description of the theoretical orientation, goals and objectives of evolutionary psychology. |
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| | Psychology Cool-Links (Page 1): The UW-RF Mega Site |
| | The American Psychological Society has more than 10,000 members and is the largest general psychology organization focusing mainly on research. | | | This link is to the American Psychology Association. | | | This straightforward site is devoted to deliniating the ethicals do's and don't for professional psychologists (both researchers and clinicians). |
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| | The Escapist - Women in Games |
| | The basic idea behind evolutionary psychology is we can learn something about modern human psychology by studying the evolutionary forces that shaped the minds of our ancestors. | | | Unfortunately, the field is often attacked by dogmatic fools who think evolutionary psychology amounts to some kind of genetic determinism. | | | I'm going to offer a fresh approach to the problem, coming at it from a completely different angle: evolutionary psychology. |
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/17/3
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| | Behavior OnLine: Evolutionary Psychology |
| | James Brody, Ph.D. "Evolutionary Psychology" (EP) is relatively new and should enhance rather than supplant SB. | | | EP concepts closely rely on a "hunter-gatherer" (H&G) model of adaptive physiological and behavioral systems for particular environmental conditions. | | | SB describes functional relationships between key variables (largely associated with population density and reproductive success) and builds those relationships into models that describe communication, competition, and cooperation, and evolution. |
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| | Center for Evolutionary Psychology |
| | Results reported here support the evolutionary psychological claims that the human mind has mechanisms designed to (1) identify potential siblings in the social environment, and (2) inhibit sexual desire toward them -- an outcome that also shapes moral judgments relating to sibling incest. | | | Because social exchange allows trade, this evolved competence provides a cognitive foundation for human economic activity and other forms of cooperation. | | | Nonconscious mechanisms assess kinship based on how long two individuals coresided from infancy through adolescence. |
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| | Evolutionary Psychology |
| | Go to the "Lessons" page and read about the role of evolutionary theory in describing sexual behavior. | | | This site is part of the above discussion forum on evolutionary psychological issues. | | | Do Evolutionary and Genetic Factors Determine Our Sexual Behavior? |
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| | Salon.com Technology Flameproof racism |
| | The field of evolutionary psychology attempts to illuminate such inquiries into human nature with the insights of modern Darwinism. | | | Even respectable academic online mailing lists often melt down into reciprocal accusations of Nazism and censorship, as did the mailing list of the Human Biology and Evolution Society, the trade body for evolutionary psychologists, five years ago. | | | Given the volatility of online debate, the existence, then, of the Evolutionary Psychology mailing list seems like a miracle. |
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| | ethology and evolutionary psychology |
| | The purpose of this graduate program is to train students in the integration of the biological, behavioral, and social sciences through the unifying principles of evolutionary theory. | | | In Evolutionary Psychology, the individual is viewed as having both a cultural and an evolutionary history... | | | This integration is being actively fostered by the emergence of an Evolutionary Psychology built upon and consistent with the principles of evolutionary biology. |
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| | Evolutionary biology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Evolutionary biology's frameworks of ideas and conceptual tools are now finding application in the study of a range of subjects from computing to nanotechnology. | | | Evolutionary biology is an interdisciplinary field because it includes scientists from many traditional taxonomically-oriented disciplines. | | | For example, it generally includes scientists who may have a specialist training in particular organisms such as mammalogy, ornithology, or herpetology but use those organisms as systems to answer general questions in evolution. |
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| | BBSPrints Archive: Browse by Subject: Evolutionary Psychology |
| | Williams, Amanda (2002) Facial expression of pain: An evolutionary account. | | | Wilson, David Sloan and Sober, Elliott (1994) RE-INTRODUCING GROUP SELECTION TO THE HUMAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES. | | | MacNeilage, Peter F. Mealey, Linda (1995) THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF SOCIOPATHY: AN INTEGRATED EVOLUTIONARY MODEL. |
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