Evolutionary biology provides a crucial foundation for medicine and behavioral science that
has been missing from psychiatry. Its absence helps to explain slow progress; its advent …

The idea that individual differences in behavior and physiology can be partly understood by
linking them to a fast-slow continuum of life history strategies has become popular in the …

Despite evidence supporting a role for oxytocin (OT) in regulating social behavior,
surprisingly little is known about how this neuropeptide is calibrated during development …

Bipolar disorder is a mental health disorder characterized by extreme shifts in mood, high
suicide rate, sleep problems, and dysfunction of psychological traits like self-esteem (feeling …

While evolutionary psychology is a fascinating science, it is also often misunderstood. In this
highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook, Workman and Reader assume no prior …

Highlights•Sex differences in attachment styles have been described in children and
adults.•They emerge by middle childhood, and show systematic cross-cultural …

Across industrialized cultures, relatively slender women are often viewed as prestigious and
attractive. In contrast, in less industrialized cultures and in areas where resources are …

The aim of the current study has been to highlight the theoretical precariousness of
Psychology. The theoretical precariousness has been evidenced through a review of …

To achieve integration in the study of personality, researchers need to model the
motivational processes that give rise to stable individual differences in behavior, cognition …

Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of
psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in …