Previously we (Vonk and Shackelford, 2012, in press) proposed an integration of comparative psychology and evolutionary psychology into a new field of "comparative evolutionary psychology." This integrative discipline incorporates principles from ethology, ecology, biology, anthropology, and psychology, broadly defined. We present in this special issue a collection of original empirical and the...

patients and materials the method used in this research was correlational and statistical population was the students of the university of qom in 2013. 118 students responded to islamic lifestyle and purpose in life questionnaires. the data had been analyzed with the use of descriptive indicators, t-test, pearson and regression. results based on the results of the study, there is a direct and m...

Three categories, varying from lowest to highest levels of abstraction, of possible relationships between psychology and literature are critically examined. The first category represents the lowest level of abstraction and involves ‘psychology in literature’: literature as a source of psychological data; literature as a source of insights for psychology. The second involves literature as an ind...

limitations of our cognitive system? Or are errors indispensable parts of every intelligent system? From the first perspective, all errors are at best unnecessary and at worst harmful. Consider an error commonly made by children. When asked to find the sum of 1/2 and 1/3. the answer is often 2/5. This is called the freshman error of adding numerators and adding denominators {Silver. 1986). But ...