The brain encodes negative memories more vividly due to evolutionary survival needs. Emotional circuitry prioritizes threats ...

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 ...

The manosphere claims its worldview is grounded in science, specifically the discipline of evolutionary psychology. That’s my discipline — I am an evolutionary psychologist and associate ...

“Is Evolutionary Psychology Possible?” describes a major issue with evolutionary psychology, called the matching problem. The field of evolutionary psychology is no stranger to ...

Philosopher of science David Buller has a bone to pick with evolutionary psychology, the idea that some important human behaviors are best explained as evolutionary adaptations to the struggles we ...

Despite its flashy title, the book is a serious look at human nature through the lens of evolutionary psychology -- for a popular audience. Many of its conclusions aren't so popular. In fact ...

Philosopher of science David Buller has a bone to pick with evolutionary psychology, the idea that some important human behaviors are best explained as evolutionary adaptations to the struggles we ...

Scientists from the University of Portsmouth's Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology have created the first ...

And now, with another scandal rocking the world of evolutionary psychology, we can officially welcome a new breed of mad scientist into the spotlight: evopsych douchebags. Evolutionary psychology ...

But others are holdovers of a more ancient evolutionary past, aspects of our psychology that are shared with some of our primate relatives. Evolutionary neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp of Bowling ...

In recent decades the field of evolutionary psychology has—though not without controversy—become popular as a means to understand thinking and decision-making. Works by author Steven Pinker ...