NOTE: The following sections need additional material and editing before incorporating them on the main EP page:

Areas of research

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Mating

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Parenting

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Kinship / Interactions with Kin

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Group living / Interactions with Non-kin

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Cultural evolution / morality

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Morality and Ethics

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EP as an integrative paradigm for traditional sub-fields of psychology

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A good starting place for material for the subsections below are the textbooks by Gaulin and McBurney, "Evolutionary Psychology" and the new 4th edition of Buss, "Evolutionary Psychology."

Cognitive psychology

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  • Cosmides, L, Tooby, J., Fiddick, L. & Bryant, G. (2005). Detecting cheaters. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 505-506.

Social psychology

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Personality psychology

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Clinical psychology

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Cultural psychology

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Scope of EP

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Evolutionary psychology (EP) can be used in a general sense about approaches within psychology that are based on the understanding that the human mind, as the human body, is a result of evolutionary processes, and in a narrow sense about a particular research paradigm within psychology that emerged from Sociobiology in the 1990'es and developed by researchers such as David Buss, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby and Steven Pinker.[1]

  1. ^ Scher, Steven J. and Frederick Rauscher (eds.) Evolutionary Psychology: Alternative approaches. Kluwer Academic Publications. p.xi-xii