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 ...

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Evolutionary psychology sees the mind as a set of evolved psychological mechanisms, ... law students and professionals pictures of men dressed in different ways -- wearing, ...

That’s my discipline — I am an evolutionary psychologist and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara, the home of evolutionary psychology. In fact, it turns out incels have coopted some of my ...

Tinder And Evolutionary Psychology. Liraz Margalit. 11:00 AM PDT · September 27, ... People use their photos to make identity claims – symbolic statements to convey how they would like to be seen.

There’s an old bit of folklore that children tend to more closely resemble their fathers than their mothers. There’s a possible evolutionary explanation for this, and one study seemed to ...

Evolutionary psychology is inspired by the work of Charles Darwin and applies his ideas of natural selection to the mind. Darwin's theory argues that all living species, ...

Let’s put this approach to the Trump phenomenon into a larger context, starting with the work of Amar Sarkar and Richard Wrangham, both of Harvard’s department of human evolutionary biology.

Douglas T. Kenrick of the Arizona State University is one of the leading evolutionary psychologists in the world. He's also widely regarded as the funniest evolutionary psychologist alive.

This is the first stereotype or aphorism that evolutionary psychology has overturned. It turns out that the standards of beauty are not only the same across individuals and cultures, they are also ...

From an evolutionary perspective, two important pictures emerged. First, our data (in line with other studies) showed that female serial killers primarily kill for money.