Life History Theory and Evolutionary Psychology

By Hillard S. Kaplan, Steven W. Gangestad. 2015

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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Evolution and human motivation: A fundamental motives framework (2017, background): “Life history theory (Del Giudice et al., 2016; Roff, 1992; Stearns, 1992) provides a logical basis for predicting and understanding the nature of many of these individual differences.”
Antarctic Marine Biodiversity: Adaptations, Environments and Responses to Change (2018, background): “…trade-off identified in life-history theory is that between investment in the individual’s own survival and investment in offspring (Charnov & Krebs 1973, Stearns 1992, Kaplan & Gangestad 2005), and this trade-off varies with a range of factors including age and ecological context (Hoyle et al.”
Personal, Master, and Alternative Narratives: An Integrative Framework for Understanding Identity Development in Context (2016, background): “The challenge of deviation at the individual level can be seen with the stress experienced by those who are off-time with regards to culturally expected normative transitions, such as marriage and childbearing [Elder, 1998; Kaplan & Gangestad, 2005].”
The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization (2015, background): “From a life history perspective (Kaplan and Gangestad 2005), just as sex differences in body hair, muscle mass, and voice pitch emerge most strongly at puberty (Puts 2010), many psychological sex differences may be designed to emerge most strongly with the onset of such factors as ambulatory explora”
Beyond "Pink It and Shrink It" Perceived Product Gender, Aesthetics, and Product Evaluation (2015, background): “Extremely masculine and extremely feminine human features are perceived as being very attractive (Kaplan & Gangestad, 2005), and features that signal masculinity or femininity are perceived as signals for good health and may be an indicator the ability to produce healthy offspring.”
Reputation, Gossip, and Human Cooperation (2016, background): “Life history strategies have important psychological and behavioral consequences, such as risk taking, aggression, mating, and especially behaviors that involve future reward (Ellis, Figueredo, Brumbach, & Schlomer, 2009; Figueredo et al., 2006; Griskevicius, Tybur, Delton, & Robertson, 2011).”
Rethinking IL-6 and CRP: Why they are more than inflammatory biomarkers, and why it matters. (2018, neutral): “Del Giudice, M., Gangestad, S. W., & Kaplan, H. S. (2015).”
Getting to the “COR” (2014, background): “…& Perry (2011); Witt, Andrews, & Carlson (2004) Macro Family-Friendly Workplace Policies Payne, Cook, & Diaz (2012) including evolutionary theories (Kaplan & Gangestad, 2005), self-determination theory (Gagne & Deci, 2005), expectancy theory (Vroom, 1964), control theory (Klein, 1989), goalsetting…”
Genetic confounding of the relationship between father absence and age at menarche (2017, background): “Human life history Life history theory provides a framework for addressing how and why organisms, including humans, allocate resources to conflicting life tasks (Kaplan & Gangestad, 2005; Roff, 2002; Stearns, 1992).”