Evolutionary psychology: Controversies, questions, prospects, and limitations.

By Jaime C. Confer, Judith A. Easton, D. Fleischman, Cari D. Goetz, David M. G. Lewis, C. Perilloux, David M. Buss. 2010

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy. (2014, background): “…and emotion systems that guide processing, leads to what is called EFA – consideration of the evolved functions of different systems, how they respond to different contingencies and contexts which gives rise to their phenotypic variations (Belsky & Pluess, 2009; Buss, 2009; Confer et al. , 2010).”
Fundamental motives: How evolutionary needs influence consumer behavior (2013, background): “Keywords: Evolutionary psychology; Motivation; Decision making; Consumer behavior”
Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism (2011, background): “At the same time, some articles and book reviews contain the same errors and misunderstandings that seem stubbornly persistent, despite numerous published efforts to address them (e.g., Confer et al. 2010).”
The height leadership advantage in men and women: Testing evolutionary psychology predictions about the perceptions of tall leaders (2013, background): “Evolutionary psychologists assume that the human brain evolved throughout our evolutionary history, much of which our ancestors spent living in small nomadic societies on the African savannah (for further reading, see Buss, 2005; Confer et al., 2010; Tooby & Cosmides, 1992).”
Pancultural Associations Between Perceived Parental Acceptance and Psychological Adjustment of Children and Adults (2012, background): “These assumptions are embedded in PARTheory’s phylogenetic perspective (Rohner, 1975, 1986), a perspective that is strikingly similar to perspectives found in contemporary evolutionary psychology (Bjorklund & Pellegrini, 2002; Confer et al., 2010). In addition to these assumptions, personality subth”
Human Emotions: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective (2016, background): “Current perspectives classify emotions as “basic” or fundamental on the basis of criteria that are misguided from a modern evolutionary perspective (Buss, 2014; Confer et al., 2010; Tooby & Cosmides, 2008).”