Sentences with phrase «psychology evolutionary psychology»

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The anti-diversity memo read round the world — a controversial screed penned by a now - fired Google software engineer — has elicited plenty of controversy and debates around gender politics and the soundness of evolutionary psychology.

Dolled up with fancy new monikers like «evolutionary psychology,» it now saunters boldly into the academy....

The field of evolutionary psychology is demonstrating great - ape behavior so similar to human behavior that even some of our cherished «human» attributes like peacemaking and expressions of selflessness might be attributed to our animal selves.

Jews and Christians have just observed Passover and Good Friday and Easter — different stories that also deserve to be tested in the discussion of evolutionary psychology and complexity.

Combined with sociobiology, the explanatory potential of evolutionary psychology is enormous.

And while he's probably right to do so, his rejoinder ignores Allen's references to evolutionary psychology and to Rossie's mentor, F. Roger Devlin.

While she derides the form it takes among the pick - up artists, her basic argument seems to be that evolutionary psychology explains the behavior of those involved in the culture, even if it doesn't work.

More common — and pretty reasonable, was the objection that Hobbes's and Rousseau's understanding of the natural condition of members of our species doesn't square with what studies show concerning evolutionary psychology.

His apparent lack of theological formation leads him, in his chapter on evolutionary psychology, to follow the «many» biblical scholars who «do not believe that humans were [originally] created without sin» (p. 122, a case of the blind leading the blind, perhaps?).

Hartshorne had more than a passing acquaintance with science, and with biology and evolutionary theory in particular — I have already mentioned his work in the psychology of sensation and on the aesthetics of bird song.

Evolutionary psychology is fascinating on this topic — particularly the concept of «niche construction».

specifically evolutionary psychology.

According to evolutionary psychology, the emergence of the human species was accompanied by a change in reproductive strategy, a switch to producing a smaller numbers of offspring whose parents made a correspondingly greater investment in seeing them reach adulthood.

It could lead to a more Whiteheadian biology and evolutionary theory, and to a more Whiteheadian approach to human psychology including physiological psychology.

I believe that evolutionary psychology explains away altruism and debunks love, and that brain chemistry undermines the illusion of free will and personhood.

There's a ton of info on evolution of social structures and beliefs as well as evolutionary psychology.

Tom Bethell («Against Sociobiology,» January) is to be commended for pointing out the fatal flaw of socio biology and of its latter «day offspring «evolutionary psychology»: the lack of falsifiability of many of the hypotheses proposed in these fields.

In the introduction to the twenty «fifth anniversary edition of his textbook Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, written in December 1999, Edward O. Wilson writes that sociobiology «is a flourishing discipline in zoology,» but, where it pertains to humans, it is «nowadays also called evolutionary psychology.»

Candidate in Developmental Psychology, also at the University of British Columbia, where she is studying how certain evolutionary factors affect children's empathic behavior.

Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology.

His research methods included evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, cognitive science, control systems theory and ethology.

Regina Schön (2007) Natural Parenting: Back to Basics in Infant Care Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 5 (1)

In these pages, I review research from a wide range of fields — including anthropology, medicine, psychology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience.

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Founded by an evolutionary anthropologist, this parenting resource is for critical thinkers — people who want to understand child development from the perspectives of psychology, anthropology, evolution, and cognitive neuroscience.

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That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

A long tradition of research in social and evolutionary psychology tells us that this behavior doesn't make sense.

Andrea Camperio - Ciani, a professor of ethology and evolutionary psychology at the University of Padua, interviewed 98 gay men and 100 straight men and found that the mothers of gay men had an average of 2.7 children, while the mothers of straight men averaged 2.3.

For example, research on children's play in extant hunter - gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of other mammalian young, have identified play as an adaptation that enabled early humans to become powerful learners and problem - solvers.

As I argued, to test evolutionary psychology's hypothesis, we need to look at physically abused children, not sexually abused children or children who were the victims of very broadly defined neglect.

The difference between my hypothesis and Evolutionary Psychology's claim can't be seen when looking at the mate choices of young males.

I don't think that it does stand or fall with Evolutionary Psychology, even though they have been the principal purveyors of the idea of evolved sex differences.

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They present themselves as having the courage to ask evolutionary questions about human psychology.

Combining the tools of psychology, evolutionary biology and archaeology, scientists have found compelling evidence for the co-evolution of early Stone Age slaughtering tools and our ability to communicate and teach, shedding new light on the power of human culture to shape evolution.

JRM: Do you see any value in Evolutionary Psychology?

And if my book can have any positive effect I would hope it would be to prompt people to think about alternative hypotheses and different ways in which evolutionary theory might inform psychology.

Richard Coss, now a psychology professor at the University of California at Davis, largely invented the idea of evolutionary aesthetics in a paper he wrote 30 years ago as a young graduate in industrial design.

Rather, he contends that «Evolutionary Psychology,» a set of assumptions about the nature and evolution of the human mind, has largely crowded out the possibility of a more pluralistic «evolutionary psychoEvolutionary Psychology,» a set of assumptions about the nature and evolution of the human mind, has largely crowded out the possibility of a more pluralistic «evolutionary psycholoPsychology,» a set of assumptions about the nature and evolution of the human mind, has largely crowded out the possibility of a more pluralistic «evolutionary psychoevolutionary psychologypsychology.»

JRM: Does the idea of evolved differences between the sexes stand or fall with the Evolutionary Psychology paradigm?

In Gould's critique of Evolutionary Psychology, he said, «I don't think that males are willing to rear babies only because clever females beguile us.

Because of that, we're not quite the Pleistocene relics that Evolutionary Psychology claims.

JR Minkel: What was your initial reaction to the conclusions of Evolutionary Psychology, and when did you first start having doubts about them?

Recently, the doubts and questions plaguing the theory of evolutionary psychology have boiled up to the mainstream press.

Dennis Turner, an evolutionary biologist who studies companion animals at the Institute for Applied Ethology and Animal Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland, says the experiment only loosely resembles real - life adoptions, so more work needs to be done before he's convinced.

The study of our human nature encompasses a variety of fields ranging from anthropology, primatology, cognitive science and psychology to paleontology, archaeology, evolutionary biology and genetics.

From my perspective, scientists are no different than anybody else; evolutionary psychology applies to all humans equally,» he adds.

According to Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker in a 2015 article in Cato's Letter on «The Psychology of Pessimism,» in our evolutionary past there was an asymmetry of payoffs in which the fitness cost of overreacting to a threat was less than the fitness cost of underreacting.

«Relationship dissatisfaction and mate guarding intensity, in turn, are key processes linked to outcomes such as infidelity and breaking up, both of which can be costly in evolutionary currencies,» said co-author and psychology professor David Buss.