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Online archive. Evolutionary Psychology is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal published since 2003. [ 1] It covers empirical, philosophical, historical, and socio-political aspects of evolutionary psychology. [ 1] Its editors-in-chief are Todd K. Shackelford ( Oakland University ), Bernhard Fink ( University of Göttingen ), David A ...
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.
Buss is the author of a number of publications and books, including The Evolution of Desire, The Dangerous Passion, and The Murderer Next Door, which introduces a new theory of homicide from an evolutionary perspective. He is also the author of Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, whose fourth edition was released in 2011.
The term evolutionary psychology was used by American biologist Michael Ghiselin in a 1973 article published in the journal Science. [11] Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby popularized the term "evolutionary psychology" in their 1992 book The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and The Generation of Culture. [1]
Evolution and Human Behavior is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in which evolutionary perspectives are brought to bear on the study of human behavior, ranging from evolutionary psychology to evolutionary anthropology and cultural evolution. It is primarily a scientific journal, but articles from scholars in the ...
Evolutionary developmental psychology (EDP) is a research paradigm that applies the basic principles of evolution by natural selection, to understand the development of human behavior and cognition. It involves the study of both the genetic and environmental mechanisms that underlie the development of social and cognitive competencies, as well ...
Evolution, Mind and Behaviour is an open access journal focusing on "the application of evolutionary theory to the human behavioral sciences ". The journal publishes both empirical and theoretical papers. The authors come from a variety of disciplines including anthropology, psychology and human behavioral ecology. [1]
Todd Kennedy Shackelford (born 1971) is an American psychologist and professor at Oakland University. He is best known for his work in evolutionary psychology. He is the editor in chief of the academic journals Evolutionary Psychology [1] and Evolutionary Psychological Science. [2] He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and ...