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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Evolutionary Psychology"”.
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Evolutionary Psychology: The Academic Debate
… debate that surrounds the new field called "Evolutionary Psychology." Evolutionary psychology has emerged as the most popular successor theory to human sociobiology. Its proponents search for evolved psychological mechanisms and emphasize universal features of the human mind. My thesis is …
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The evolutionary psychology of information management: gossip, secrecy, and shame in evolutionary perspective
This thesis presents an evolutionary psychological approach to the study of human information management behavior, including gossip, secrecy, and the emotional processes guiding the communication and concealment of personal information. An evolutionary psychological perspective proposes that human …
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To what extent do ‘processes of the mind’, consistent with evolutionary psychology, account for religious experiences involving the Trinity?
… that ‘processes of the mind’, consistent with evolutionary psychology, facilitate subjective experiences of God as Trinity. Christians have for nearly two millennia reported experiences believed to involve the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Such experiences contributed to the hermeneutics …
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The religious mind: An evolutionary argument for theological non-realism
… I apply the insights of current best theory in evolutionary psychology to the problem of deciding between theological realism, which holds that religious beliefs are about some aspect of mind-independent reality, and theological non-realism, which holds that religious beliefs are mind-dependent …
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The Adaptive Function of Freudian Ambivalence, A Freudian Neo-Darwinian Synthesis
… function of Freudian ambivalence through evolutionary psychology, a neo-Darwinian sub-paradigm. This proposal posits that Freudian ambivalence is a grand-superordinate adaptive program composed of two integrated bivalent superordinate programs that in turn instigate adaptive behavior. The …
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Physical attractiveness, altruism and fairness in a game-theoretic framework
… well-researched, altruism towards non-kin is an evolutionary puzzle. There have been advances in evolutionary psychology where theorists have explored the evolution of altruism through the lens of sexual selection theory, hypothesising that altruism leads to increased chances of being chosen as a …
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Gender dynamics in the advertising industry : the interplay of workplace culture and career advancement
… including gender studies, consumer behavior, evolutionary psychology and sociology fields. This report bridges theories ranging from feminist literary theory to tokenism, gender-role congruence, situated learning and homophily theories. It further summarizes a qualitative methodological …
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Virtue Resonance: Friendship in the Context of Adversity
… In Part I, I provide an overview of positive psychology, and how my capstone topic fits into the science of well being. In Part II I gather the research and literature on friendship from positive psychology, philosophy and evolutionary psychology and bring forward their wisdom on how adversity …
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Proactive Personality: Genetic Influences in its Relationships with Career Success and Environmental Impacts on Its Change
… issues. In the first study, I draw upon evolutionary psychology and genetic research to investigate the genetic foundation of proactive personality and to probe the relative merits of genetic and environmental influences in the relationships between proactive personality and career …
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Love me true : deception, affection, and evolutionary strategies of human mating
… study employed theoretical perspectives from evolutionary psychology in an attempt to explore what might motivate romantic partners to communicate a deceptive affectionate message (DAM). This study claims that DAMs may be seen as adaptive and strategically chosen mate-retention behaviors, …
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Competing paradigms for explaining the etiology of human male homosexual orientation: a case study in the application of the methodology of scientific research programs
… trends in developmental systems theory and evolutionary psychology. It is also argued that this episode in the history of science undermines the normative generalizability of Lakatos' account of science.
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Examining financial puzzles from an evolutionary perspective
… we examine some puzzles in finance from an evolutionary perspective. We first provide a literature review of evolutionary psychology, and discuss three main findings; the frequentist hypothesis, applications from risk-sensitive optimal foraging theory, and the cheater detection hypothesis. …
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The Debunking Project. Developing a Framework for the Scope and Requirements of Successful Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
… the theoretical and empirical foundations of Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (EDAs), a critical philosophical type of argument used to challenge realist positions across various domains, notably morality. The dissertation systematically analyzes how EDAs function, what they require as minimal …
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An evolutionary approach to studying search behavior in the context of human mate selection
… individuals require before rejecting mates? Evolutionary psychology was employed to understand the effects of gender, temporal condition (i.e., short-term vs. long-term relationship) and self-perception (i.e., self-perceived desirability as a mate). In Study 1, it was predicted that females …
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The Nurture of Nature: Biology, Psychology and Culture
… consequences taking development seriously in evolutionary considerations will have for how we understand the evolution of psychology and culture. I first explicate the relationship between development and evolution that informs a number of approaches to evolution, including neo-Darwinian …
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Cognitive Fictions: The Evolution of Identity in Late-Nineteenth Century Fiction and Science
… disciplinary field and cultural notion of evolutionary psychology, so that excavating this turn-of-the-century model allows us not only to recognize that essentialist thinking has evolved beyond stability and fixity, but also to appreciate the inter-disciplinary and popular nature of that …
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Sex differences in marital satisfaction and happiness: the contribrution of children, attractiveness, and financial status
<p>Though numerous studies in the evolutionary psychology literature have investigated how humans select mates in order to successfully reproduce and raise progeny to reproductive maturity, few have examined if factors involved in mate selection matter in marital satisfaction and individual …
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Boundary -work in United States psychology: A study of three interdisciplinary programs
… from three interdisciplinary programs---evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and chaos theory---contributed to changing U.S. psychology's disciplinary boundaries. These interdisciplinary scientists brought about this change through their conceptual, material, and social practices. …
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USING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE AS A CONCEPTUAL TOOL: AN EXAMINATION OF COGNITION IN IMPROVISED MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Viewing musical improvisation in the light of psychology and cognitive science, this thesis will explicate the rationale behind the development of a software based audiovisual interface for use in improvised solo instrumental performance. The evolution of the performance environment is presented …
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The Breakup Project: using evolutionary theory to predict and interpret responses to romantic relationship dissolution
… pair bonds is a well-represented topic in human evolutionary sciences. This extensive body of work, drawn mostly from the field of evolutionary psychology, has proposed mechanisms for attracting a mate (e.g., resource display, physical cues), attaining a mate (e.g., intrasexual competition), and …
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