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  2. Evolutionary Psychology

    www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/evolutionary-psychology

    Evolutionary psychology is the study of the ways in which the mind was shaped by pressures to survive and reproduce. Findings in this field often shed light on...

  3. Evolutionary Psychology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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    Evolutionary psychology is one of many biologically informed approaches to the study of human behavior. Along with cognitive psychologists, evolutionary psychologists propose that much, if not all, of our behavior can be explained by appeal to internal psychological mechanisms.

  4. How Evolutionary Psychology Explains Human Behavior - Psych...

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    Evolutionary psychology is the natural selection of beneficial cognitive traits passed down through the generations. According to Ellie Borden, a registered psychotherapist...

  5. Evolutionary psychology | Human Behavior & Adaptation |...

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    evolutionary psychology, the study of behaviour, thought, and feeling as viewed through the lens of evolutionary biology. Evolutionary psychologists presume all human behaviours reflect the influence of physical and psychological predispositions that helped human ancestors survive and reproduce.

  6. Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia

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    Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. [1][2] It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve.

  7. Evolutionary Psychology: Definition and Key Concepts - ThoughtCo

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    The field of evolutionary psychology is based on the idea that human emotions and behaviors have been shaped by natural selection. According to evolutionary psychologists, the human brain evolved in response to specific problems that early humans faced.

  8. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science

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    Evolutionary psychology is a hybrid discipline that draws insights from modern evolutionary theory, biology, cognitive psychology, anthropology, economics, computer science, and paleoarchaeology. The discipline rests on a foundation of core premises: 1. Manifest behavior depends on underlying psychological mechanisms, information processing ...

  9. What Is Evolutionary Psychology? | Psychology Today

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

  10. Evolutionary Psychology | Psychology Today United Kingdom

    www.psychologytoday.com/gb/basics/evolutionary-psychology

    Evolutionary psychology is the study of the ways in which the mind was shaped by pressures to survive and reproduce. Findings in this field often shed light on...

  11. Evolutionary Psychology - Psychology - Oxford Bibliographies

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    Evolutionary psychology is the application of the principles and knowledge of evolutionary biology to psychological theory and research. The field is comprehensive insofar as it encompasses both our species-typical human nature and its individually differentiated manifestations.