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 Steven Pinker - EvoWiki
Steven Pinker is an evolutionary psychologist at Harvard.
This page was last modified 18:16, 6 February 2006.
wiki.cotch.net /index.php?title=Steven_Pinker&redirect=no   (93 words)

  
 Geoffrey Miller, Psychology Department at UNM
Evolutionary social psychology is my main focus, especially the study of human mental adaptations for judgment, decision-making, strategic behavior, and communication in social and sexual domains.
Miller, G. Social policy implications of the new happiness research.
Spring 2003: Psych 271: Undergraduate lecture course on "Social Psychology." Syllabus
www.unm.edu /~psych/faculty/gmiller.html   (1302 words)

  
 Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Psychology: Social
The Emotion Project at King's College London - Project based in the Philosophy Department at King's College London, investigating the evolutionary role of emotions and the philosophical consequences.
A Sociological Social Psychology - A tour through social psychology from the nature-nurture debate through to the psychology of urbanisation, all from a sociological perspective.
Social Cognition Paper Archive - Abstracts and preprints of research papers, and links to researchers in the field.
dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Social   (735 words)

  
 Salon.com Technology Flameproof racism
Even respectable academic online mailing lists often melt down into reciprocal accusations of Nazism and censorship, as did the mailing list of the Human Biology and Evolution Society, the trade body for evolutionary psychologists, five years ago.
The Evolutionary Psychology list combines the quick, cheap distribution of the Internet with all the advantages that real magazines traditionally have over mailing lists: a really diverse readership and an editor who sits right next to a large wastepaper basket.
Yet, somehow, on the Evolutionary Psychology list everyone is civil and everyone keeps reading -- a testament to the nimble moderation imposed by one man, Ian Pitchford, founder and editor of the list.
archive.salon.com /tech/feature/2000/08/30/evpsych   (650 words)

  
 ~dankriegman
In addition, he has published widely on topics related to the evolutionary understanding of human behavior and the theory and practice of depth psychological (psychoanalytic) approaches to psychotherapy.
HSC won the contract and, for several years, provided all of the sexual dangerousness determinations throughout the Commonwealth, as well as providing the independent psychiatrists and psychologists who sat on the Community Access Board that oversaw the treatment of all Sexually Dangerous Persons in Massachusetts.
A list of his published works can be found here.
home.comcast.net /~dankriegman   (510 words)

  
 psychology
Anatomical structures and behaviours are those which have proven to be successful adaptations to changing environments (even though we have enormous scope for controlling and varying those behaviours within the bounds of the evolutionary prescription).
For example, when presented with a list of words, we will remember more of them if we pay attention to the sound of the word ( acoustic encoding) as well as its visual structure ( physical encoding) as opposed to processing the visual structure alone.
We are animals and our behaviour is thus animal behaviour: our skills and abilities, our intellectual and linguistic capacities, our porno vids and stamp collections are all products of a beastly past.
www.redcrow.demon.co.uk /Ctombs/Articles/psychologyx.html   (510 words)

  
 Evolution Of Social Behaviour Patterns In Primates And Man
Each camp has seen social evolution as its own preserve: the biologists confident that evolutionary biology would deliver insights about culture and social behaviour; the social anthropologists, psychologists, and linguists resenting intrusion onto what they have seen as their patch.
She argued for the role of behavioural ecology, which explores the function of behaviour in contemporary populations, as against evolutionary psychology, which takes Pleistocene conditions as its baseline of psychological adaptation and ignores intriguing cultural differences.
On 4th and 5th April 1995, the Royal Society and British Academy held a scientific meeting on Evolution of social behaviour patterns in primates and Man. The enclosed document was prepared afterwards to summarize key issues raised by the speakers and to provide a list of helpful contacts for future reference.
www.absw.org.uk /Briefings/Social_behaviour.htm   (510 words)

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