Indirect aggression includes behaviours such as criticizing a competitor's appearance,
spreading rumours about a person's sexual behaviour and social exclusion. Human females …

Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social hierarchies that arise from
agonistic interactions in which some individuals coercively exploit their control over costs …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a
fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our …

Social interactions are characterized by distinct forms of interdependence, each of which
has unique effects on how behavior unfolds within the interaction. Despite this, little is known …

With its unique blend of compelling topics and rich pedagogy, the twelfth edition of Interplay
shows how scholarship, research, and theory can introduce students to communication and …

Given the high costs of aggression, why have people evolved to act aggressively?
Comparative biologists have frequently observed links between aggression, status, and …

Many researchers have turned to evolutionary theory to better understand diversity in
leadership. Evolutionary theories of leadership, in turn, draw on ethnographic cases of …

Paranoia is the most common symptom of psychosis but paranoid concerns occur
throughout the general population. Here, we argue for an evolutionary approach to paranoia …

Investigations of women's same-sex relationships present a paradoxical pattern, with
women generally disliking competition, yet also exhibiting signs of intrasexual rivalry. The …