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Improving Breastfeeding Rates
Evolutionary Anthropological Insights for Public Health
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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Breastfeeding is championed as an effective way to improve global health, associated with improved health outcomes for children and mothers. Various public health strategies to promote breastfeeding have been developed and implemented for over four decades, yet progress has stagnated, and exclusive …
The Evolution of Reputation-Based Cooperation
A Goal Framing Theory of Gossip
Av Rafael Wittek, Francesca Giardini
Häftad, 2023
308 kr
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Gossiping and its reputation effects are viewed as the most powerful mechanism to sustain cooperation without the intervention of formal authorities. Being virtually costless, gossiping is highly effective in monitoring and sanctioning norm violators. Rational individuals cooperate in order to …
An Introduction to Positive Evolutionary Psychology
Av Glenn Geher, Megan Fritche m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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Over the past few decades, evolutionary psychology has shed light on such features of the human experience as mating, love, religion, aggression, warfare, physical health, mental health, and more. The field of positive psychology has progressed along a parallel trajectory, using behavioral science …
The Hidden Talents Framework
Implications for Science, Policy, and Practice
Av Bruce J. Ellis, Laura S. Abrams m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
282 kr
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Although early-life adversity can undermine healthy development, an evolutionary-developmental perspective implies that children growing up in harsh environments will develop intact, or even enhanced, skills for solving problems in high‐adversity contexts (i.e., 'hidden talents'). This Element …
Attachment and Parent-Offspring Conflict
Origins in Ancestral Contexts of Breastfeeding and Multiple Caregiving
Häftad, 2024
300 kr
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This Element builds on the mainstream theory of attachment and contemporary understanding of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness to address the origin and nature of infant-maternal bond formation. Sections 2 and 3 propose that attachment behaviors for protesting against separation and …
Evolutionary Perspectives on Enhancing Quality of Life
Häftad, 2024
292 kr
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Positive psychology is a thriving field with increasing political influence, yet there are few evolutionary studies that have had a tangible impact on rethinking mechanisms of well-being. This Element reviews existing literature and proposes synthesizing insights into human flourishing under an …
Superorganism
Toward a New Social Contract for Our Endangered Species
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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As evidence of our global survival crisis continues to mount, the expression 'too little, too late' comes to mind. We all live in an interdependent world which has an increasingly shared fate. We are participants in an emerging global 'superorganism' that is dependent on close cooperation. Indeed, …
The Evolved Mind and Modern Education
Status of Evolutionary Educational Psychology
Häftad, 2024
276 kr
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Humans have an extraordinary ability to create evolutionarily novel knowledge, such as writing systems and mathematics. This accumulated knowledge over several millennia supports large, dynamic societies that now require children to learn this novel knowledge in educational settings. This Element …
The Evolved Mind and Modern Education
Status of Evolutionary Educational Psychology
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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Humans have an extraordinary ability to create evolutionarily novel knowledge, such as writing systems and mathematics. This accumulated knowledge over several millennia supports large, dynamic societies that now require children to learn this novel knowledge in educational settings. This Element …
The Evolution of Reputation-Based Cooperation
A Goal Framing Theory of Gossip
Av Rafael Wittek, Francesca Giardini
Inbunden, 2023
892 kr
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Gossiping and its reputation effects are viewed as the most powerful mechanism to sustain cooperation without the intervention of formal authorities. Being virtually costless, gossiping is highly effective in monitoring and sanctioning norm violators. Rational individuals cooperate in order to …
Evolution in International Relations
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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Scholars of international relations (IR) and evolution pay little attention to each other's fields. However, there is a need to examine evolution's impacts in IR. International actors such as nations are made up of people, so evolved human nature has an impact on relations within and between …
Evolution in International Relations
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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Scholars of international relations (IR) and evolution pay little attention to each other's fields. However, there is a need to examine evolution's impacts in IR. International actors such as nations are made up of people, so evolved human nature has an impact on relations within and between …
Attachment and Parent-Offspring Conflict
Origins in Ancestral Contexts of Breastfeeding and Multiple Caregiving
Inbunden, 2024
867 kr
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This Element builds on the mainstream theory of attachment and contemporary understanding of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness to address the origin and nature of infant-maternal bond formation. Sections 2 and 3 propose that attachment behaviors for protesting against separation and …
Evolutionary Perspectives on Enhancing Quality of Life
Inbunden, 2024
812 kr
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Positive psychology is a thriving field with increasing political influence, yet there are few evolutionary studies that have had a tangible impact on rethinking mechanisms of well-being. This Element reviews existing literature and proposes synthesizing insights into human flourishing under an …
Strengths and Weaknesses of Two Theories for Explaining 15 Universal Sex Differences in Cognition and Behavior
Av Lee Ellis
Inbunden, 2025
867 kr
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Social role theory and evolutionary neuroandrogenic (ENA) theory are compared regarding how well they can explain 15 cognitive and behavioral sex differences that appear to be present in all human cultures. In essence, social role theory argues that, except for males being larger and more muscular …
Strengths and Weaknesses of Two Theories for Explaining 15 Universal Sex Differences in Cognition and Behavior
Av Lee Ellis
Häftad, 2025
274 kr
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Social role theory and evolutionary neuroandrogenic (ENA) theory are compared regarding how well they can explain 15 cognitive and behavioral sex differences that appear to be present in all human cultures. In essence, social role theory argues that, except for males being larger and more muscular …
Evolution and the Fate of Humankind
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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In recent years we have come to understand better the forces that have shaped biological evolution over the course of time. Evolved purposiveness (teleonomy) in living systems themselves has been an important influence. Cooperative effects (synergies) of various kinds have also been influential. …
Evolution and the Fate of Humankind
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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In recent years we have come to understand better the forces that have shaped biological evolution over the course of time. Evolved purposiveness (teleonomy) in living systems themselves has been an important influence. Cooperative effects (synergies) of various kinds have also been influential. …
Small Groups as the Engines of Cultural Evolution
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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This Element explores the evolutionary role of small groups as key actors in shaping human adaptability, resilience, and societal development. Drawing on cultural evolutionary theory and interdisciplinary scholarship, it illuminates the world-making and transformative capacities of small groups as …
Small Groups as the Engines of Cultural Evolution
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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This Element explores the evolutionary role of small groups as key actors in shaping human adaptability, resilience, and societal development. Drawing on cultural evolutionary theory and interdisciplinary scholarship, it illuminates the world-making and transformative capacities of small groups as …
Evolutionary Explanations for Associations between Religiosity and Mental Health
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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This Element examines the relationship between mental health and religiosity from an evolutionary perspective. Drawing on psychology, anthropology, and health science, it explores the origins of religiosity and the cultural evolution of religious traditions to identify how religious beliefs, …
Evolutionary Explanations for Associations between Religiosity and Mental Health
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
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This Element examines the relationship between mental health and religiosity from an evolutionary perspective. Drawing on psychology, anthropology, and health science, it explores the origins of religiosity and the cultural evolution of religious traditions to identify how religious beliefs, …
