I wrote previously about how evolutionary psychology tends to be misrepresented in introductory psychology textbooks and, when it is mentioned, is often confined to only a select topic or two.

As a passionate researcher in the field of evolutionary psychology (for example, see my brief textbook Evolutionary Psychology 101; Geher, 2014), I think it’s important for anyone interested in ...

Despite its flashy title, the book is a serious look at human nature through the lens of ...

And if my book can have any positive effect I would hope it would be to prompt people to think about alternative hypotheses and different ways in which evolutionary theory might inform psychology.

Philosopher of science David Buller has a bone to pick with evolutionary psychology, the idea that some important human behaviors are best explained as evolutionary adaptations to the struggles we ...

The study's coauthors sampled 20 introductory psychology textbooks, published from 2009 and 2017. "Of the 14 [textbooks] that mention brain evolution, 86% contained at least one inaccuracy along ...

The latest edition of a leading textbook, “Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind,” by David Buss, of the University of Texas at Austin, announces that an evolutionary approach ...

This is explored in a new book co-edited and written by Dr. Jason Roach, ... The cover of "Evolutionary Psychology and Terrorism." view more . Credit: University of Huddersfield.

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy — witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor ... In her new book Paleofantasy: ...