Evolutionary psychology Evolutionary psychology Ethical fitnessism, or 'fitnessism' for short, is the ethic whose behaviour tends to be maximized as a result of natural selection, i.e. as a result of the 'survival of the fittest'. Ultimately fitnessism is defined as the ethic according to which the behaviour with maximal inclusive fitness is right. (Inclusive fitness is, simplified, the ability to pass on, and assist the passing on of, (copies of) one's genes in the long run.) In the words of Richard Dawkins (author of The Selfish Gene), being his 'central theorem of the extended phenotype', "An animal's behaviour tends to maximize the survival of the genes 'for' that behaviour, whether or not those genes happen to be in the body of the particular animal performing the behaviour." (Dawkins 1999 (1982), The Extended Phenotype, Oxford: O.U.P., p. 248). To maximize the survival of the genes for one's behaviour, or, in other words, to maximize one's behavioural fitness, is the behaviour of fitnessism, which more precisely is the ethic according to which: ...more on Wikipedia about "Ethics and evolutionary psychology"
Evolutionary developmental psychopathology is an approach to the understanding of psychiatric disorders based on the following: that human adaptations were forged to function in past environments rather than the current environment; that investigations of brain-damaged patients should be included in the modeling of disorders to facilitate the mapping of psychological functions on to brain systems; that investigations of behavioural abnormalities should be combined with those on information-processing abnormalities in a scheme that acknowledges both cognition and affect as components of information processing; investigation of specific signs and symptoms, rather than syndromes, as symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations, for example, are observed in patients who currently fall into a number of diagnostic categories, including schizophrenia and affective psychosis; the expectation that complex psychological processes will be broken down into simpler tasks that can be performed by mindless agents and finally that research should be particularly attentive to any data showing sexual dimorphism and changes in psychological functioning and neural architecture across the lifespan, and therefore to comparisons between adults, adolescents, and children. ...more on Wikipedia about "Evolutionary developmental psychopathology"
Though over the years it had been in development through many published papers by the same two authors, evolutionary psychoanalysis fully came into being with the publication of The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process by Malcolm Slavin and Daniel Kriegman (ISBN 0898627958 Guilford Press, 1992). ...more on Wikipedia about "Evolutionary psychoanalysis"
Evolutionary psychology (abbreviated ev-psych or EP) proposes that animal psychology can be better understood in light of evolution. Although EP is applicable to any organism with a nervous system, most EP research focuses on humans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Evolutionary psychology"
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Moral values are things held to be right or wrong or desirable or undesirable. While morality is sometimes described as ' innate' in humans, the scientific view is that a capacity for morality is genetically determined in us, but the set of moral values is aquired, through example, teaching or imprinting from parents and society. Different cultures have very different moral value systems, indeed moral values are probably the main defining feature of a culture, along with its traditions, laws, behaviour patterns, and beliefs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Moral values"
Penis envy in popular culture is understood in terms of women's psychological response to their lack of a penis. It is also sometimes ascribed to males in regard to others with a larger penis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Penis envy"
Sexual jealousy is a special form of jealousy in sexual relationships, present in animals that reproduce through internal fertilization, and based on suspected or imminent sexual infidelity. It is founded on the instinct of keeping genes in the gene pool and expecting sexual partners to care for the offspring. The concept is studied in human and non-human primates in the field of evolutionary psychology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sexual jealousy"
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