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41. Evolutionary Psychology - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
evolutionary psychology (or EP) proposes that human and primate cognition and The main sources of evolutionary psychology are cognitive psychology,
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Psychology Areas Cognition Development Clinical Emotion ... Applied psychology Approaches Behavioral Biological Cognitive Evolutionary Humanistic Psychodynamic Transpersonal Evolutionary psychology (or EP) proposes that human and primate cognition and behavior can be better understood in light of human and primate evolutionary history . Specifically, EP proposes the primate brain comprises many functional mechanisms , called psychological adaptations or evolved psychological mechanisms (EPMs), that evolved by natural selection to benefit the survival and reproduction of the organism. These mechanisms are universal in the species , excepting those specific to sex or age. Uncontroversial EPMs include vision hearing memory , and motor control . More controversial examples include differences in male and female mating preferences and strategies, temperaments and cognitive abilities, incest avoidance mechanisms cheater detection mechanisms and capture-bonding The main sources of evolutionary psychology are cognitive psychology genetics ethology anthropology ... biology , and zoology . The term evolutionary psychology was probably coined by Ghiselin in his 1973 article in Science Leda Cosmides and John Tooby popularized the term in their highly influential book The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and The Generation of Culture ISBN 0195101073 Evolutionary psychology has been applied to the study of many fields, including

42. BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body And Mind - TV Programmes - Human Instinct
Investigates the science of evolutionary psychology. Includes programme information and details plus interactive instinct tests.
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44. Human Behavior & Evolution Society
bullet, New The Handbook of evolutionary psychology by David M. Buss (Editor) (2005) bullet, evolutionary psychology and peak oil A Malthus inspired
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The Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) is an interdisciplinary, international society of researchers, primarily from the social and biological sciences, who use modern evolutionary theory to help to discover human nature - including evolved emotional, cognitive and sexual adaptations.
Note: If you are new to adaptationist approaches to human behavior, learn more at our Intro to the Field page.
News The HBES 2006 conference will be held in Philadelphia June 7-11, 2006. The HBES 2005 Conference was held in Austin, TX June 1 - 5, 2005.
See some photos from the conference. New: The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology by David M. Buss (Editor) (2005) Debate (available on streaming video, audio, or transcript): Pinker vs. Spelke,
THE SCIENCE OF GENDER AND SCIENCE Evolutionary psychology and "peak oil": A Malthus inspired "heads up" for humanity. New HBES for Students website special website for HBES student members. B ioMedNet: Ecology, Evolution and Environment Gateway Anthroplogy in the news and Anthropology Resources New Books and Articles See a list of relevant new bo oks and new articles published this year.

45. Intro To The Field
bullet, A basic overview of evolutionary psychology and mating strategies, evolutionary psychology. In M. Gallagher RJ Nelson (Eds.),
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How can modern evolutionary theory help to advance our understanding of human behavior? Video on the Web (best with a high speed internet connection) Video of Steven Pinker discussing his book The Blank Slate (Also, the end of class review lecture for his Human Mind course) Video of Matt Ridley discussing ideas in his book Nature via Nurture Overviews of Evolution and Behavior on the Web: A basic overview of evolutionary psychology and mating strategies, by Dr. Paul Kenyon Study and Learning Materials Online. An overview of evolutionary psychology. (PDF file) F Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology, Volume Three: Biological Psychology (pp. 1-33). Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby. Also, read an interview with Leda Cosmides about what evolutionary psychology is (and is not). An overview of Human Behavioral Ecology (PDF file), by Bruce Winterhalde r and Eric Alden Smit h (article published in Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews , Volume 9, Issue 2, 2000. NY: Wiley) Adaptations, Exaptations and Spandrels

46. Cogprints - Subject: Evolutionary Psychology
Buller, David J. (1998) DeFreuding evolutionary psychology Adaptation and Skoyles, John R. (1999) The evolutionary psychology of perfectionism Reply
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47. Individualism And Evolutionary Psychology
Their reasons stem from the fact that evolutionary psychology appears to explain To argue, then, that evolutionary psychology violates individualism by
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Northern Illinois University Abstract. Millikan (1993) and Wilson (1994) argue, for different reasons, that the essential reference to the environment in adaptationist explanations of behavior makes (psychological) individualism inconsistent with evolutionary psychology. I show that their arguments are based on misinterpretations of the role of reference to the environment in such explanations. By exploring these misinterpretations, I develop an account of explanation in evolutionary psychology that is fully consistent with individualism. This does not, however, constitute a full-fledged defense of individualism, since evolutionary psychology is only one explanatory paradigm among many in psychology. 1. Introduction. Psychological individualism is the principle that an individual's psychological states supervene on that individual's (current) internal physical states. Although individualism can appear to be an ontological thesis, it is actually a methodological constraint on psychological explanation deriving from a commitment to causal explanations of behavior. The idea is this. Conditions in an individual's external environment either have had an effect on that individual's internal states or have not. If they have not, they could not have had an effect on the behavior produced by that individual; so they are explanatorily irrelevant. If they have, then their effect on the individual's behavior has been mediated by their effect on internal states. However, since precisely

48. UT Psychology Faculty: Michael Olson
Social cognition, attitudes, racial prejudice, and evolutionary psychology (U. of Tennessee, USA)
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49. Anthro.Net: Evolutionary Psychology
This site contains links and references for evolutionary psychology. Evolution in Mind An Introduction to evolutionary psychology by Henry Plotkin 1998
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Evolutionary Psychology This site contains links and references for Evolutionary Psychology. Recommended Reading: The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency by William A. Rottschaefer 1998 Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology by Henry Plotkin 1998 by Denys Decatanzaro 1998 Darwin's Bass: The Evolutionary Psychology of Fishing Man by Paul G. Quinnett 1998 Evolutionary Principles of Human Adolescence by Glenn Weisfeld 1998 The Maladapted Mind: Classic Readings in Evolutionary Psychopathology by Simon Baron-Cohen (Editor) 1997 Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology Links: The Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara: The center's official homepage. European Sociobiological Society Evolution and Science News Reports Places to Study Evolutionary Psychology: Links to graduate programs in evolutionary psychology. SFU Evolutionary Psychology Research Group: homepage of a research group located at Simon Fraser University. Contains an online description of the theoretical orientation, goals and objectives of evolutionary psychology.

50. Kenan Malik's Home Page
Essays, papers, lectures and reviews on Darwinism, evolutionary psychology, race, philosophy and history. Also extracts from Kenan Malik's books 'Man, Beast and Zombie' and 'What is it to be Human?'.
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51. Evolutionary Psychology: Innateness Vs. Learning
Discussion of evolutionary psychology ideas. evolutionary psychology (EP) is an emerging branch of anthropology and psychology, which have been gaining
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Evolutionary psychology (EP): innate vs. learned
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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. 3.2.7 below). Here I discuss the evidence and arguments that are used in EP for the innateness of psychological traits.
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In section [2] I outline the main arguments for and against innateness and learning. In section [3] I analyse general discussions of the EP approach. These come from 'The Adapted Mind' by Barkow, cosmides and Tooby (1992), which at the time of writing was the most prominent book in EP, and an earlier chapter by the same authors. Here I discuss only those articles and chapters that touch on the point of learning. In section [4] I discuss specific chapters from 'The Adapted Mind'. In section [5] I discuss other examples. The reader should note that in the text in sections [3-5] I am not intending to bring evidence against innateness. The evidence against innateness is outlined in [2.2] below. What I am trying to show in sections [3-5] is that the evidence

52. Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins Of Human Behavior
evolutionary psychology is the study of the adaptive significance of behavior and attempts to explain how certain behaviors developed over time in order to
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53. BussLab
evolutionary psychology Links. The Human Behavior and Evolution Society evolutionary psychology FAQ evolutionary psychology Section of CogPrints
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54. Evolutionary Psychology And Behavioural Ecology Research Group
Led by Robin Dunbar at the University of Liverpool, UK. Details of current research and publications, profiles of staff and students, PhD and taught MSc
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55. Individual Differences And Evolutionary Psychology
evolutionary psychology Resources. Reading List Individual Differences and evolutionary psychology at the University of Texas, Austin
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57. A Tutorial On Evolutionary Psychology
PDF by Edward Hagen of UCSB.
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58. Evolutionary Psychology
The focus of evolutionary psychology has been most clearly defined by Leda Cosmides evolutionary psychology A new paradigm for psychological science.
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Definition of Evolutionary Psychology*
The focus of evolutionary psychology has been most clearly defined by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, two researchers currently at UC Santa Barbara. Evolutionary psychologists (EP) are interested in studying the evolved cognitive structure of the mind. EP argue that much has changed since the mind evolved in the ancestral environment, and behaviours observed today may or may not be adaptive. The focus of study is on psychological or mental mechanisms, also referred to as decision processes, information processes, or Darwinian algorithms. Darwinian algorithms are defined as: "Innate specialized learning mechanisms that evolved in ancestral populations for organizing experience into adaptively meaningful schemes or frames." The mechanisms and processes described above are proximate mechanisms. 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. The goal of EP is to define the workings of psychological mechanisms, including the constraints on their operation and the effects and influence of various environmental inputs (from the immediate social or physical environment and/or from experience and learning).
Within their research program, evolutionary psychologists are concerned with three issues:

59. Behavior OnLine: Evolutionary Psychology
Brief introduction to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.
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EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOBIOLOGY, AND CLINICAL PHENOMENA James Brody, Ph.D. Adapted Mind , (Oxford, 1992) rests on assumptions that:
the human mind is a mosaic of "information processing systems" that are extraordinarily efficient in handling specific kinds of stimuli and responses to them,
human evolution has been generally static since the Pleistocene,
these systems are "content specific" and generate many invariant aspects of human culture. There are problems and benefits with this view. EP would appear to share the same circular morass of the Instinct Crowd from decades ago. ("Why do we eat cheese?" "It's instinctive." "How do we know it's instinctive?" "Because so many of us do it.") There are two escapes: (1) EP will use hunter-gatherer hypotheses to generate predictions about unstudied, subtle aspects of human performance in cognitive and social tasks. (2) It also tries to weaken the circularity issue by specifying physiological systems that solve an adaptive problem. Rather than assuming the independent evolution of a dozen components that just happen to work well together, EP asks "What adaptive problem is solved? What physiological resources would be needed to solve it? Is it possible that visual and motor systems work so well because their interplay led to fuller bellies at some point long ago?"

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