"Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective."
This field studies the relationship between evolution and the mind, encompassing a broad range of phenomena, from learning and behavior to emotion and culture.
"It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve."
"Psychological traits and mechanisms are either functional products of natural and sexual selection or non-adaptive by-products of other adaptive traits."
"Evolutionary psychologists apply the same thinking in psychology, arguing that just as the heart evolved to pump blood, and the liver evolved to detoxify poisons, there is modularity of mind in that different psychological mechanisms evolved to solve different adaptive problems."
"Much of human behavior is the output of psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments."
"Behaviors or traits that occur universally in all cultures are good candidates for evolutionary adaptations."
"Abilities to infer others' emotions, discern kin from non-kin, identify and prefer healthier mates, and cooperate with others."
"Economics, environment, health, law, management, psychiatry, politics, and literature."
"Questions of testability, cognitive and evolutionary assumptions, importance of non-genetic and non-adaptive explanations, as well as political and ethical issues due to interpretations of research results."
"Evolutionary psychologists frequently engage with and respond to such criticisms."
"Evolutionary theory can provide a foundational, metatheoretical framework that integrates the entire field of psychology in the same way evolutionary biology has for biology."
"There is modularity of mind in that different psychological mechanisms evolved to solve different adaptive problems."
"Findings have been made regarding human social behavior related to infanticide, intelligence, marriage patterns, promiscuity, perception of beauty, bride price, and parental investment."
"Economics, environment, health, law, management, psychiatry, politics, and literature."
"Psychological traits and mechanisms are either functional products of natural and sexual selection or non-adaptive by-products of other adaptive traits."
"Evolutionary psychology examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective."
"Psychological traits and mechanisms are either functional products of natural and sexual selection or non-adaptive by-products of other adaptive traits."
"Abilities to infer others' emotions, discern kin from non-kin, identify and prefer healthier mates, and cooperate with others."
"Economics, environment, health, law, management, psychiatry, politics, and literature."
"Questions of testability, cognitive and evolutionary assumptions, importance of non-genetic and non-adaptive explanations, as well as political and ethical issues due to interpretations of research results."