When a feline gets threatened, it engages in a suite of behaviors that seem to have the purpose of facilitating its own survival. A cat will growl angrily. It will arch its back. And even the fur ...

“Is Evolutionary Psychology Possible?” describes a major issue with evolutionary psychology, called the matching problem. The field of evolutionary psychology is no stranger to ...

Philosopher of science David Buller has a bone to pick with evolutionary psychology, the idea that some important human behaviors are best explained as evolutionary adaptations to the struggles we ...

Philosopher of science David Buller has a bone to pick with evolutionary psychology, the idea that some important human behaviors are best explained as evolutionary adaptations to the struggles we ...

In his current Slate dialogue, Robert Wright writes: “We both subscribe to the modern Darwinian view of human behavior (whose variants include evolutionary psychology and sociobiology ...

One meta-analysis that conducted closer analysis of many studies suggests the benefits of positive psychology are often exaggerated. Evolutionary Psychology This field considers human behavior ...

Petersen's background is in evolutionary psychology, and his research focuses on how the adaptive challenges of human evolutionary history shape the way modern citizens think about mass politics.

Psychology is the science of the mind. The human mind is the most complex machine on Earth. It is the source of all thought and behaviour. How do psychologists study the mind? But how can we study ...

Evolutionary psychology is a powerful approach to understanding human behavior and mental processes – leading to advancements in such important domains as education (see Gray, 2011), physical ...

But evolutionary psychology, which studies the supposed changes to human behavior made as a result of evolution, is far more controversial. P.Z. Myers excellently sums up why: "The repertoire of human ...