Life-history theory in psychology and evolutionary biology: one research programme or two?

D Nettle, WE Frankenhuis - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The term 'life-history theory'(LHT) is increasingly often invoked in psychology, as a
framework for integrating understanding of psychological traits into a broader evolutionary …

On the psychometric study of human life history strategies: State of the science and evidence of two independent dimensions

GB Richardson, BK Sanning, MHC Lai… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This article attends to recent discussions of validity in psychometric research on human life
history strategy (LHS), provides a constructive critique of the extant literature, and describes …

The evolution of life-history theory: a bibliometric analysis of an interdisciplinary research area

D Nettle, WE Frankenhuis - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The term 'life-history theory'is a familiar label in several disciplines. Life-history theory has its
roots in evolutionary models of the fitness consequences of allocating energy to …

Perceptions of childhood unpredictability, delay discounting, risk-taking, and adult externalizing behaviors: A life-history approach

JL Martinez, C Hasty, D Morabito… - Development and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Guided by principles from life-history theory, theories of adaptive calibration provide an
overarching theoretical framework for understanding the developmental roots of impulsivity …

Life history and multi-partner mating: A novel explanation for moral stigma against consensual non-monogamy

JK Mogilski, VE Mitchell, SD Reeve… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Life history theory (LHT) predicts that individuals vary in their sexual, reproductive, parental,
familial, and social behavior according to the physical and social challenges imposed upon …

Parental investment theory

JK Mogilski - The SAGE handbook of evolutionary psychology …, 2021 - torrossa.com
Selection and the Descent of Man through its expansive application to research in the
evolutionary psychological sciences. I begin with an abridged redux of the theory's claims …

Is reproductive development adaptively calibrated to early experience? Evidence from a national sample of females.

GB Richardson, D Bates, A Ross, H Liu… - Developmental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Many developmental theories have not been sufficiently evaluated using designs that
control for unobserved familial confounds. Our long-term goal is to determine the causal …

The psychometric evaluation of human life histories: A reply to Figueredo, Cabeza de Baca, Black, Garcia, Fernandes, Wolf, and Woodley (2015)

LT Copping, A Campbell, S Muncer… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
A recent critique of Copping, Campbell, and Muncer raised several issues concerning the
validity of psychometric assessment techniques in the study of life history (LH) strategies. In …

Childhood risks and problematic smartphone use: Dual processes of life history strategy and psychological distress

MX Zhang, L Ku, AMS Wu - Cyberpsychology: Journal of …, 2024 - cyberpsychology.eu
Problematic smartphone use (PSU) and its negative consequences among adolescents are
so commonly observed that they have become a matter of public concern. Utilizing life …

Brief self-report scales assessing life history dimensions of mating and parenting effort

DJ Kruger - Evolutionary Psychology, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Life history theory (LHT) is a powerful evolutionary framework for understanding
physiological, psychological, and behavioral variation both between and within species …