Cognitive psychology has an opportunity to turn itself into a theoretically rigorous discipline in which a powerful set of theories organize observations and suggest focused new …
J Tooby, L Cosmides - … psychology and the generation of culture, 1992 - books.google.com
One of the strengths of scientific inquiry is that it can progress with any mixture of empiricism, intuition, and formal theory that suits the convenience of the investigator. Many sciences …
L Cosmides, J Tooby - … psychology and the generation of culture, 1992 - books.google.com
Cognitive adaptations for social exchange Page 176 3 Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange LEDA COSMIDES AND JOHN TOOBY INTRODUCTION Is it not reasonable to …
Despite the depiction of nature" red in tooth and claw", cooperation is actually widespread in the animal kingdom. Various types of cooperative behaviors have been documented in …
GG Carter, GS Wilkinson - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Common vampire bats often regurgitate food to roost-mates that fail to feed. The original explanation for this costly helping behaviour invoked both direct and indirect fitness benefits …
In this chapter the author discusses separation and relatedness theories of personality development as well as the few theorists who emphasize the parallel development of both …
M Gurven - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2004 - cambridge.org
The transfer of food among group members is a ubiquitous feature of small-scale forager and forager-agricultural populations. The uniqueness of pervasive sharing among humans …
Animal Traditions maintains that the assumption that the selection of genes supplies both a sufficient explanation of the evolution and a true description of its course is, despite its …
S Guisinger, SJ Blatt - American Psychologist, 1994 - psycnet.apa.org
Western psychologies have traditionally given greater importance to self-development than to interpersonal relatedness, stressing the development of autonomy, independence, and …