evolutionary psychology
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evolutionary psychology (uncountable)
(psychology, evolutionary theory) A theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection.
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Evolutionary psychology offers complementary explanations for the mostly proximate or developmental explanations developed by other areas of psychology: that is, it focuses mostly on ultimate or "why?"
Evolutionary psychology An evolutionary psychology view is that the more unusual primary agoraphobia without panic attacks may be due to a different mechanism from agoraphobia with panic attacks.
Evolutionary basis Evolutionary psychology has attempted to provide various reasons for love as a survival tool.
Evolutionary psychology says we are ruled by our unconscious caveman instincts, which were forged over millions of years of evolution.
Evolutionary psychology approaches self-deception as an adaptation that can improve one's results in social exchanges.
Evolutionary psychology emphasizes that, for humans, neural mechanisms evolved in an ancestral environment that differed from the current environment whereas animal sociobiologists look at animal adaptions to the current environment.