When it comes to relationships, men and women have been under somewhat different evolutionary pressures. As a consequence, women tend to connect love and sex more than men do.

Evolutionary psychology provides a foundational framework for understanding how cognitive and behavioral traits have evolved in response to recurring ...

A new study suggests that Western adults are cultural outliers who learn to reject a natural human love for ornamentation.

The flipside of biophobia is called biophilia, an innate affinity for nature. Both of these terms stem from evolutionary ...

This creates a powerful loop: a negative thought enters the brain, and, due to its distressing contents, the brain signals ...

New research suggests that a potential partner’s willingness to protect you from physical danger is a primary driver of ...

People who report greater difficulties maintaining intimate relationships are more likely to be single, especially between ...

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in groups where only one female breeds,” he explained. “Whereas humans live in ...

Rage bait” has been named the word of the year by the Oxford University Press. It means social media content that is designed ...

Why do we love who we love? Why do some relationships endure while others fall apart? In The Intimate Animal: The Science of ...

A selection of science-based books from the year that together shine new light on who we are and why we think and act as we do.

Psychological research is showing that altruism does exist, an understanding that could lead to a more empathetic world.