So, too, did the human brain. Evolutionary psychology is the study of the ways in which the mind was shaped by pressures to survive and reproduce. Findings in this field often shed light on ...

Training in "male psychology" is generally not required in clinical psychology training programs. This lack of training may hamper female therapists' ability to fully comprehend males perspective in ...

Zagaria sourced data from PsycInfo, a comprehensive database of psychological literature, and compared frequency of words ...

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B.A. psychology, M.A. social psychology, Ph.D. social psychology Carolina Minority Post-Doctoral Scholar in the Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Nominated as a ...

Are you lactose intolerant? Many people are. In fact, the ability to digest lactose may be an example of adaptive evolution in the human lineage. Although the study of natural selection in humans ...

Professor Gazes teaches in the Department of Psychology and the Animal Behavior Program. My research program focuses on discovering what evolutionary pressures may have led to the development of ...

The evolutionary link between sickle-cell trait and malaria resistance showed that humans can and do adapt. But are the “bugs” that make us sick evolving as well? While malaria is the best ...