";s:4:"text";s:2869:" Finally, we review current applications of life history theory to human growth and development, individual differences in developmental trajectories, personality, and psychopathology. We conclude with a summary of the theoretical and empirical … Evolutionary psychology, like evolutionary theory in general, aims for a synthetic theory that includes both rigorous and unbiased observations of human behavior (including an examination of the contexts within which behaviors occur) and an explanation of the underlying causes of those behaviors from the perspective of evolutionary biology.
The field is comprehensive insofar as it encompasses both our species-typical human nature and its individually differentiated manifestations. In the beginning, the history of social psychology and the history of evolutionary psychology were one. Next, we explore the question of which physiological and psychological mechanisms mediate the development and organization of life history strategies. Evolutionary Psychological Science. evolutionary developmental psychology by briefly discussing the history of this field and then summarizing the variety of topics that are covered. The first text in our field with social psychology in the title, by William McDougall (1908), adopted an explicitly evolutionary perspective. Editorial board ; Aims & scope; Dedicated to exploring the psychological aspects of evolution and behavior, this journal provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for original empirical and theoretical papers that address evolved psychology in humans and non-humans. In Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature, David Buller argues “not only that the theoretical and methodological doctrines of Evolutionary Psychology are problematic, but that Evolutionary Psychology has not, in fact, produced any solid empirical results” (Buller 2005, 15). DOI: 10.1002/9781119125563.evpsych102 Corpus ID: 49575840.
In this special issue, leading researchers provide a collection of theoretical and empirical articles that highlight recent findings and propose promising areas for future research. Evolutionary psychology is the application of the principles and knowledge of evolutionary biology to psychological theory and research. Evolutionary Thought in Psychology: A Brief History traces the history of evolutionary thought in psychology in an accessible and lively fashion and examines the complex and changing relations between psychology and evolutionary theory.