The range of applications is wide, from recognizing the origins, functions, and regulation of emotions, to evolutionary explanations for the persistence of alleles that predisposed to mental disorders. Like other medical disorders, every mental disorder requires not only a description of the responsible...
4.3 Sociocultural Explanations There are at least two ways of thinking of the broader sociocultural context. One is that behavior at work is merely an extension of male dominance that thrives in the larger society. Overall, there is general agreement in the literature about the characteristics of...
Evolutionary biology provides a potentially powerful framework for understanding disease pathogenesis in child psychiatry and should permit the integration of new knowledge from a broad range of scientific disciplines. Evolutionary explanations are typically population-based and fail...
the underlying assumptions behind these models limit the parsimony of their explanations. Specifically, these models assume that (a) only people with underlying psychopathology are amendable to social media and (b) being on social media provides ...
(a), the animal-reminder perspective suggests that theof sexual intercourse should elicit disgust, because non-human animals also have intercourse–there is no distinction based on sexual partner implied by this model. In contrast, the 3DD model suggests that a sexual act should elicit disgust if...
of testability, cognitive and evolutionary assumptions (such as modular functioning of the brain, and large uncertainty about the ancestral environment), importance of non-genetic and non-adaptive explanations, as well as political and ethical issues due to interpretations of research results.[9][10]...
“crusade to piss off art academics,” the show features four interconnected exhibitions curated by some of the best-known (and controversial) evolutionary theorists of our time—Steven Pinker, Geoffrey Miller, Brian Boyd,andMark Changizi—whose goal is to posit biological explanations as to why ...
This essay will discuss the mental disorder known as Social Phobia. The major symptoms of this disorder will be identified before critically considering the difficulties regarding the diagnosis of Social Phobia. Biological and psychosocial explanations will be explored and evaluated appropriately in order ...
“Since the shape of the brow ridge is not driven by spatial and mechanical requirements alone, and other explanations for brow ridges such as keeping sweat or hair out of eyes have already been discounted, we suggest a plausible contributing explanation can be found in social communication.” ...
each revealing unique properties and dynamics. In the case of the socio-cultural universe, modern evolutionary theory is relevant for some explanations, but not to the degree assumed by socio-biology, evolutionary psychology, and even co-evolutionary models. The program proposed is built around socia...