HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: PARDON OUR DUST

Pardon our dust: remodeling care to serve you better

Overview The Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid), a national leader in health-care transformation, contracts with 16 regional Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) to provide integrated medical, behavioral, and dental care in patientcentered primary care homes. The transformation seeks increased access to primary care, better control of healthcare cost increases, and improved health outcomes using gl...

Human evolutionary psychology and animal behaviour.

Homo sapiens is increasingly being studied within the evolutionary (adaptationist, selectionist) framework favoured by animal behaviour researchers. There are various labels for such work, including evolutionary psychology, human behavioural ecology and human sociobiology. Collectively, we call these areas 'human evolutionary psychology' (HEP) because their shared objective is an evolutionary u...

Evolutionary Versus Instrumental Goals: How Evolutionary Psychology Misconceives Human Rationality

An important research tradition in the cognitive psychology of reasoning-called the heuristics and biases approach-has firmly established that people's responses often deviate from the performance considered normative on many reasoning tasks. For example, people assess probabilities incorrectly, they display confirmation bias, they test hypotheses inefficiently, they violate the axioms of utili...

Evolutionary psychology and evolutionary developmental psychology: understanding the evolution of human behavior and development.

This is an introduction to this special issue on evolutionary psychology (EP) and evolutionary developmental psychology (EDP). We suggest here that, contrary to some common assumptions, mainstream psychology continues to be essentially non Darwinian and that EP and EDP are new approaches that can potentially help us to change this situation. We then present the organization of the special issue...

Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology