The human body evolved over eons, slowly calibrating to the African savanna on which 98 percent of humankind lived and died. So, too, did the human brain. Evolutionary psychology is the study of ...

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How Evolutionary Psychology Research Can Be Misinterpreted. As a therapist, I'm familiar with cognitive distortions, or thinking errors, which are often deeply embedded into the discourse of ...

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 ...