Evolutionary Psychology (EP) views the human mind as organized into many modules, each
underpinned by psychological adaptations designed to solve problems faced by our …

Much of developmental science aims to explain how or whether children's experiences
influence their thoughts and actions. Developmental theories make assumptions and claims …

Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the
beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

Why do we grow up to look, act, and feel as we do? Through most of the twentieth century,
scientists and laypeople answered this question by referring to two factors alone: our …

How do infants learn to perceive the backs of objects that they see only from a limited
viewpoint? Infants'3-dimensional object completion abilities emerge in conjunction with …

The author has thought about working memory, not always by that name, since 1969 and
has conducted research on its infant and child development since the same year that the …

The psychological revolution that follows the onset of independent locomotion in the latter
half of the infant's first year provides one of the best illustrations of the intimate connection …

Theories about the development of helping make different assumptions about infants'
everyday experiences. Yet little research has investigated early helping at home. Two …

In this article, we contrast evolutionary and psychobiological models of individual
development to address the idea that individual development occurring in prototypically …