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Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective, seeking to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve.
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It claims that the brain is a computer designed by natural selection to extract information from the environment
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, and that individual behavior is generated by this evolved computer in response to information.
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It also suggests that the mind has a modular architecture, and that cognitive traits and mechanisms are either functional products of natural and sexual selection or non-adaptive by-products of other adaptive traits.
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Evolutionary psychology is also used to provide an account of human nature, and is invoked in a wide range of areas of study, such as English Literature, Consumer Studies and Law.
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Evolutionary psychology is one of many biologically informed approaches to the study of human behavior. Along with cognitive psychologists, evolutionary psychologists propose that much, if not all, of our behavior can be explained by appeal to internal psychological mechanisms.
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Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve. In this framework, psychological traits and mechanisms are either functional products of natural and sexual selection or non-adaptive by-products of other adaptive traits.
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Evolutionary Psychology The Science of Evolutionary Psychology. Natural selection has a lot to do with human behavior. In fact, our behavior is... Concepts In Evolutionary Psychology. Many of the behaviors…
Evolutionary Psychology | Psychology Today
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Evolutionary psychology , which emerged in the late 1980s, is a synthesis of developments in several different fields, including ethology, cognitive psychology , evolutionary biology, anthropology, and social psychology . At the base…
Evolutionary psychology | Britannica
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Evolutionary Psychology This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Browse by Most recent Most read Most cited Trending Collections Articles most recently published online for…
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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 ...
Evolutionary psychology - ScienceDaily
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