Sugar relationships may be more about sexual attitudes than survival strategies. A new study shows people drawn to these ...

Peace through strength” reflects an evolutionary tension—historically effective at times, yet modern peace may demand a ...

Sharks are, by any definition, incredibly badass. They’re the only animals around that can claim to have chowed down on ...

Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers proposed a number of theories on evolutionary psychology, including why we engage in reciprocal altruism, the nature of sex differences, and parent-offspring ...

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy — witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, ...

But as an evolutionary psychologist, I’ve found that hard to do. You can hardly read two paragraphs of incel ideology without coming across references to my field.

The Seven Sins of Evolutionary Psychology. Jaak Panksepp and Jules B. Panksepp in Evolution and Cognition, Vol. 6, No. 2, pages 108–131; 2000. Historical Evidence and Human Adaptations.

When considering danger, many women overlook the person closest to them. Renowned psychologist Dr Gad Saad reveals that the ...

Evolutionary psychologists posit that, based on these questionnaire answers, mate guarding behavior is driven by a hard-wired, domain-specific cognitive module whose function is to procure and ...

Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, i.e., as ...