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intergroup relations
Preferred term
evolutionary psychology
Definition
- Evolutionary psychology is the study of human psychological and physical behavior produced by natural selection (Manstead & Hewstone, 1995). The use of Darwinian ideas to describe human behaviors suggests that all human actions are for survival purposes and have evolved over time (Cardwell, 1996). [Source: Dictionary of Multicultural Psychology: Issues, Terms, and Concepts; Evolutionary Psychology]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- affordances
- cheater-detection mechanisms
- cultural animal
- ecological rationality
- error management theory
- ethology
- evolutionary dominance
- fight-or-flight response
- genetic influences on social behavior
- kin selection
- sexual selection
- sexual strategies theory
- social Darwinism
- sociobiological theory
- sociobiology
- tend-and-befriend response
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/evolutionary_psychology
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