Human Psychology and Animal Psychology

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...

Health psychology and health promotion

Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environ...

Psychology. Beyond a joke: from animal laughter to human joy?

be consistently associated with specific DNA sequence motifs (17). These comparisons suggest a number of potentially useful studies. Although technically challenging, it may prove fruitful to examine regional variation in chro-matin accessibility in mammalian meiotic cells. How does this affect the action of recombination-related proteins such as Spo11? In addition to Spo11, at least 11 other p...

Bridging psychology and biology with animal research.

407 is the same, however: making sense out of the previously unwanted variance in grouped data by relating it to independent measures of other kinds of individual difference. Once one grasps the point that there are almost always individuals who do not follow the group’s mean trend, a fact that may be the result of hidden but nonrandom determinants, the door is open to many exciting new investi...

Psychology, Social Psychology and Risk