So, too, did the human brain. 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 ...

While “normal” encompasses statistical, medical, psychological, and sociocultural dimensions, its definitions diverge ...

I'm a former British army officer and an expert on conflict, and I've just written a book called "Why We Fight" about the evolutionary psychology of warfare. The real question is, how have we ...

A new study has revealed how the loss of experienced individual elephants stops the knowledge transfer between generations, ...

Jealousy is triggered in response to real-world cues of resource allocation in romantic relationships, according to a new ...

B.A. psychology, M.A. social psychology, Ph.D. social psychology Carolina Minority Post-Doctoral Scholar in the Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Nominated as a ...

Another hypothesis is that contagious yawning evolved to keep groups in sync. Yawns follow a natural circadian rhythm and often signal transitions between activities. So, when yawning spreads within a ...

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This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. Principles of evolutionary psychology. The nature and limitations of the human brain as an ...