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Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology
Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose by Deirdre Barrett, 2010-02-22
Getting Darwin Wrong: Why evolutionary psychology won't work (Societas) by Brendon Wallace, 2010-08-01
Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology: Ideas, Issues, and Applications
Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry: The origins of psychopathology by Martin Brüne, 2008-11-15
Evolution and the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition (Sydney Symposium in Social Psychology)
Evolutionary Forensic Psychology
A Psychology with a Soul: Psychosynthesis in Evolutionary Context (Arkana) by Jean Hardy, 1990-02-06
Alas, Poor Darwin : Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology by Hilary ; rose, Steven (editors) Rose, 2001
Foundations in Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience
The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption (Marketing and Consumer Psychology Series) by Gad Saad, 2007-02-05
Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience
Evolution and Genetics for Psychology by Daniel Nettle, 2009-06-28
How Sadness Survived: The Evolutionary Basis of Depression by Paul Keedwell, 2008-03

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The Bio-Rational Institute - Individual Freedom Through Science - Home
Articles, references and information about evolutionary influences on human experience.
http://www.biorationalinstitute.com/
The Evolutionary Origin Of Laughter - Technology Review
Evolution@home is the first global computing system for evolutionary biology. It allows everybody with an Internet PC to contribute to evolutionaryresearch by running simulations
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25952/

Extractions: Published by MIT Username Password Register Forgot Password? Search The Evolutionary Origin Of Laughter kfc 10/29/2010 A new theory of the brain attempts to explain one of the great puzzles of evolutionary biology: why we laugh One of the more complex aspects of human behaviour is our universal ability to laugh. Laughter has puzzled behavioural biologists for many years because it is hard to imagine how this strange behaviour has evolved. Why would laughing individuals be fitter in reproductive terms? And why is this ability is built-in, like sneezing, rather than something we learn, like hunting? Today, we get an interesting insight into these questions along with some tentative answers from Pedro Marijuán and Jorge Navarro at the Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud in Spain. The evolution of laughter, they say, is intimately linked with the evolution of the human brain, itself a puzzle of the highest order. There is widespread belief that the brain evolved rapidly at the same time as human group sizes increased. Bigger groups naturally lead to greater social complexity. And it's easy to imagine that things like language and complex social behaviours are the result of brain evolution. But the latest thinking is more subtle.
So You Think You're Logical?
An online implementation of one of the most famous experiments in social/evolutionary psychology.
http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/logic_task.htm
Evolutionary Development
Grand unification theory covering psychology, religion, politics, economics, and personal relationships.
http://www.seancopland.com/evolution/
Individualism And Evolutionary Psychology (or: In Defense Of 'Narrow' Functions)
Online paper by David Buller.
http://cogprints.org/328/

Extractions: @import url(http://cogprints.org/style/auto.css); @import url(http://cogprints.org/style/print.css); @import url(http://cogprints.org/style/nojs.css); Cogprints Home About Browse by Year ... Create Account Buller, David J. Individualism and Evolutionary Psychology (or: In Defense of 'Narrow' Functions). [Journal (Paginated)] Full text available as: HTML Millikan and Wilson argue, for different reasons, that the essential reference to the environment in adaptationist explanations of behavior makes (psychological) individualism inconsistent with evolutionary psychology. I show that their arguments are based on misinterpretations of the role of reference to the environment in such explanations. By exploring these misinterpretations, I develop an account of explanation in evolutionary psychology that is fully consistent with individualism. This does not, however, constitute a full-fledged defense of individualism, since evolutionary psychology is only one explanatory paradigm among many in psychology. Item Type: Journal (Paginated) Keywords: individualism, behavioral ecology, function, etiological theory, proximate mechanisms, selection
Evolutionary Epistemology (Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
evolutionary Epistemology is a naturalistic approach to epistemology, which emphasizes the importance of natural selection in two primary roles.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-evolutionary/

Extractions: Please Read How You Can Help Keep the Encyclopedia Free First published Thu Jan 11, 2001; substantive revision Fri Jan 4, 2008 Evolutionary Epistemology is a naturalistic approach to epistemology, which emphasizes the importance of natural selection in two primary roles. In the first role, selection is the generator and maintainer of the reliability of our senses and cognitive mechanisms, as well as the "fit" between those mechanisms and the world. In the second role, trial and error learning and the evolution of scientific theories are construed as selection processes. Traditional epistemology has its roots in Plato and the ancient skeptics. One strand emerges from Plato's interest in the problem of distinguishing between knowledge and true belief. His solution was to suggest that knowledge differs from true belief in being justified. Ancient skeptics complained that all attempts to provide any such justification were hopelessly flawed. Another strand emerges from the attempt to provide a reconstruction of human knowledge showing how the pieces of human knowledge fit together in a structure of mutual support. This project got its modern stamp from Descartes and comes in empiricist as well as rationalist versions which in turn can be given either a foundational or coherentist twist. The two strands are woven together by a common theme. The bonds that hold the reconstruction of human knowledge together are the justificational and evidential relations which enable us to distinguish knowledge from true belief.
Behavior And The General Evolutionary Process - Cogprints
Paper by William Baum.
http://cogprints.org/1051/

Extractions: @import url(http://cogprints.org/style/auto.css); @import url(http://cogprints.org/style/print.css); @import url(http://cogprints.org/style/nojs.css); Cogprints Home About Browse by Year ... Create Account Baum, William M. Behavior and the General Evolutionary Process. [Preprint] Full text available as: HTML Item Type: Preprint Keywords: evolution, general evolutionary process, cultural evolution, operant behavior, substitutable variant, proximate explanation, ultimate explanation, nested processes Subjects: ID Code: Deposited By: Baum, William M. Deposited On: 24 Oct 2000 Last Modified: 01 Jun 2010 14:04 Select the SEEK icon to attempt to find the referenced article. If it does not appear to be in cogprints you will be forwarded to the paracite service. Poorly formated references will probably not work. Ainslie, G. W. (1974). Impulse control in pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 21, 485-489. Alcock, J. (1993). Animal behavior (5th ed.). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates. Alessi, G. (1992). Models of proximate and ultimate causation in psychology. American Psychologist, 47, 1359-1370.
Evolution
The most comprehensive evolutionary science resource on the Internet.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/

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Professor Kevin MacDonald, CSULB, Department Of Psychology
evolutionary perspectives on Judaism and European marriage practices. (California State University, Long Beach).
http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/
Evolutionary Psychology - Encyclopedia Article - Citizendium
This is a draft article, under development and not meant to be cited; you can help to improve it. These unapproved articles are subject to a disclaimer.
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology

Extractions: This is a draft article , under development and not meant to be cited; you can help to improve it. These unapproved articles are subject to edit intro Biologists working in the field of evolutionary psychology argue that not only did the human body and its physiological characteristics evolve by means of natural selection , but also the human mind so evolved, including evolution of its manifold psychological, emotional and cognitive characteristics. They argue that human mental traits, including predispositions and biases, having evolved under pressure of natural selection during human evolution, reflect adaptations to the particular environments that prevailed before and during the period the human species ( Homo sapiens ) emerged from its ancestral lineage 200,000 years ago and evolved to a fully modern human species by some 50,000 years ago. They refer to the seminal period of psychological/cognitive adaptation to environmental circumstances as the era of evolutionary adaptedness, shorthanded to EEA, a period possibily extending to the Stone Age beginning about 2.5 million years ago.
Steven Pinker
Language, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology (MIT).
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/
Evolutionary - Definition And More From The Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Definition of word from the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evolutionary
Jerome H. Barkow's Page
evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, human reproductive behaviour (Dalhousie University, Canada).
http://myweb.dal.ca/barkow/home.htm
Evolutionary Creationism
evolutionary Creationism Torah Solves the Problem of Missing Links By Susan Schneider A chapter from the book evolutionary CreationismKabbala Solves the Riddle of Missing
http://www.orot.com/ec.html
Evolutionary Economics
Page with notes by Santa Fee Institute.
http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/notebooks/evol-econ.html
Great Ideas In Personality--Evolutionary Psychology
This page deals with evolutionary psychology, an evolutionary approach to human nature.
http://www.personalityresearch.org/evolutionary.html

Extractions: Evolutionary psychology is an evolutionary approach to human nature. Attachment Theory is also grounded in certain evolutionary ideas, and Behavior Genetics is a field concerned with that all-important evolutionary mechanism, the gene. One author summed up the basic idea of evolutionary psychology this way: "A person is only a gene's way of making another gene" (Konner, 1985, p. 48). Sociobiology (of which evolutionary psychology is a subfield that particularly concerns humans) can be thought of as having, like any research program , a "hard core" of problem solving strategies that provide possible answers to vexing research questions, and a "protective belt" of promising research questions to be addressed by providing actual answers to these questions. The protective belt structures our ignorance by identifying research questions that must be addressed if the research program is to advance. Whereas the actual answers that arise from the protective belt may be wrong, the hard core (by methodological fiat) is never wrongany potential negative evidence is to be blamed on faulty auxiliary assumptions rather than on the theory itself. Sociobiology can be thought of as a special case of the adaptationist program , which assumes that all phenotypic features (or characters) of contemporary organisms result from the fact that these features allowed the organisms' predecessors to produce more offspring in a prehistoric environment (Lewontin, 1979). "Narrow sociobiology" is defined as the study of evolution and of function, and chiefly applies to non-human animals in which cultural transmission is not an important variable intervening between possible and actual explanations (Kitcher, 1988). The hard core of narrow sociobiology includes the following laws or problem solving strategies, the basics of evolutionary theory:
European Meeting On Applied Evolutionary Economics
Held on the 7 - 9 June 1999, in Grenoble, France.
http://www.upmf-grenoble.fr/iepe/Manif/meeting.html

Extractions: Evolutionary economics has become one of the major frameworks for the understanding of modern knowledge-based economies. Issues of technological development, industrial dynamics, networking and firm behaviour are increasingly analysed as evolutionary processes. At the same time, evolutionary economics provide us with new models promoting regional development and innovation policies. At this moment, a major challenge is to develop systematic methodologies to enhance empirical studies in evolutionary economics. The objective of this first European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics is to bring together researchers and PhD-students with an interest in the empirical application of evolutionary economics. By means of intensive discussion, we aim at a fruitful exchange of the latest method and tools in evolutionary approaches to economic change. The overall theme of the meeting is innovation in an evolutionary framework. The theme relates to various domains, including :
Evolutionary Software Development: How Data Activities Fit In
evolutionary Software Development How Data Activities Fit In. www.agiledata.org Techniques for Successful evolutionary/Agile Database Development
http://www.agiledata.org/essays/evolutionaryDevelopment.html

Extractions: Evolutionary Software Development: How Data Activities Fit In www.agiledata.org : Techniques for Successful Evolutionary/Agile Database Development Home Agile DBAs Developers Enterprise Architects ... Me Should you follow the same process for a building an n-tiered web application as you would for a data warehouse Should you follow the same process for building an online version of your customer ordering system that you successfully followed ten years ago when you built the existing system that your internal customer service representatives now use today? The answer to both questions is no. An n-tiered application requires a different set of primary artifacts than a data warehouse � different technologies are best modeled and built using different techniques. The requirements for a online customer ordering system aren�t clear, as you may have noticed from the wide variety of e-commerce strategies in the past few years, as compared to your internal system built years ago. The implication is that the near-serial process that you followed years ago, a process that is very likely resistant to change, isn�t up to the dynamic nature of today�s environment. The need for methodological flexibility Beware of data-oriented BDUF Evolutionary development on an agile project The "natural order" of things and evolutionary development
Max Planck Institute Of Economics
Located in Jena, Germany. Research on evolutionary Economics, Strategic Interaction, and Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy.
http://www.econ.mpg.de/

Extractions: @import url("/script/style_startpage2.css"); @import url("/script/thickbox.css"); Library Contact Imprint Max Planck Society ... German Women, Men, Couples: Decision-making under Risk and the Dynamics of Power Balance A substantial body of research investigates how individuals incorporate risk into their decision process. However, in many day-to-day life contexts of couples, such as financial investments, insurance, retirement plans, or residential location, decisions are (or should be) made jointly. Anthony Ziegelmeyer (Max Planck Institute of Economics), André de Palma and Nathalie Picard (University Cergy-Pontoise, Paris) analyzed how decision-making power is allocated between men and women, and identify the link between risky decisions made by couples and risky decisions. Their most important result: Far from being fixed, the balance of power within the household is not static, but changes over time in a dynamic process. Couples were presented with tasks involving binary choices between a lottery and a sure payoff. In the first part of the experiment spouses were separated and chose independently. In the second part of the experiment male spouses rejoined their partner and they made joint decisions. The researchers estimated both the spouses and the couples' degrees of risk aversion and they assessed how the risk preferences of the two spouses aggregate when they make risky decisions. In most couples, the man was initially more successful than the woman in influencing couple choices but the woman progressively gained power over the course of decision-making.

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