A FIELD GUIDE TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
An interconnected archive of minds, behavior, and human nature. Explore the questions, trace the evidence, and jump to the moment an idea takes shape.
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Natural selection, adaptations, byproducts, and levels of explanation.
How minds infer, remember, reason, and make sense of the world.
How traditions, norms, beliefs, and technologies spread and change.
Why we help, reciprocate, share resources, and solve collective problems.
Evidence, experiments, cross-cultural research, and competing explanations.
Ancestral lives, hunter-gatherers, and the history of our species.
Aggression, warfare, exploitation, coalitions, and competition.
Evolutionary medicine, mental health, stress, and well-being.
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Hosts Dave Pietraszewski and David Pinsof interview anthropologist Kathrine Starkweather about her fieldwork studying the Shodogore boat-dwelling community in rural Bangladesh. They explore how human …
In this episode of the podcast, hosts Dave Pietraszewski and David Pinsof are joined by guest Athena Aktipis to explore cooperation, conflict, and the extended phenotype across biological and social s…
In this episode, hosts Dave Pietraszewski and David Pinsof speak with philosopher Hanno Sauer about moral progress, status competition, and the evolution of human cooperation. The conversation explore…
Hosts Dave Pietraszewski and David Pinsof are joined by anthropologist Manvir Singh to explore the evolutionary origins of shamanism, magical practices, and human social cooperation. The discussion co…
In this episode of "Politics with Antoine Marie," hosts David Pinsof and Dave Pietraszewski are joined by guest Antoine Marie to explore political psychology through an evolutionary and computational …
In the podcast episode "Summer Break!," host Dave Pietraszewski announces a brief summer hiatus for Evolutionary Psychology the Podcast, with new episodes returning on August 18th. During this intermi…
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