Subject Index

• Abortion
• Ache
• Adaptations:
  • adaptive specialization hypothesis
  • conditional
  • cultural evolution building
  • cultural maladaptations
  • deferred
  • environment of evolutionary adaptedness
  • infant, child, and adolescent
  • for interpersonal conflict and violence
  • natural selection of (see Natural selection)
  • ontogenetic
  • political psychology–related
  • for social exchange reasoning
• Addiction
• Age:
  • cultural evolution impacted by
  • development in relation to
  • genetic paternal age effects
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination based on
• Aggression. See also Violence
  • group selection on
  • moral beliefs and judgments triggering
  • neuropsychology of
  • reputation for
  • sex differences in
  • sexual
  • social exclusion leading to
  • status hierarchy in relation to
  • women's competition and aggression
• Aka
• Anger:
  • aggression as response to
  • mental health field understanding of
  • moral beliefs and judgments triggering
  • neuropsychology of
  • personality relationship to
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination based on
  • sex differences in
  • status hierarchy in relation to
• Anthropology:
  • application of evolutionary psychology in
  • case studies in
  • contemporary small-scale societies studied in
  • cooperation evolution studied in
  • cross-cultural variation and uniformity interpreted in
  • disease and pathogen transmission avoidance studied in
  • Electronic Human Relations Area Files use for
  • emotion studied in
  • environment of evolutionary adaptedness in
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • evolved psychology and cultural evolution in
  • human behavioral ecology and
  • overview of
  • paleoanthropology lessons for
  • parasite-stress theory in
  • use of evolutionary psychology in
• Anxiety:
  • anxiety disorders
  • developmental changes in
  • hormonal influences on
  • mental health field understanding of
  • misdiagnosis as disorder
  • personality relationship to
  • protective aspects of
  • status hierarchy in relation to
  • women's competition and aggression impacted by
• Attention disorders
• Autism

• Bantu
• Behavioral disorders
• Behavioral immune system
• Behavioral law and economics
• Betrayal trauma theory
• Bhil
• Biological function and dysfunction:
  • biological sensitivity to context as
  • black box essentialist concept of
  • definition and description of
  • disorder as evolutionary dysfunction in
  • disorder as harmful dysfunction in
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • maintenance of
  • natural selection effects on
  • overview of
  • pitfalls in arguments related to
  • psychopathology as designed function failure
  • timeline of natural selection impacting
  • Wright's etiological analysis of
• Bison-Horn Maria
• Brain function. See Cognitive function; Neuropsychology

• Child abuse:
  • amnesia blocking memory of
  • interpersonal conflict and violence as
  • law and legal system addressing
  • mental health field work on
  • stepparent role in
• Clinical psychology:
  • biological functions in
  • disorder as evolutionary dysfunction in
  • disorder as harmful dysfunction in
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • natural selection effects in
  • overview of
  • pitfalls in arguments related to
  • psychopathology as designed function failure in
• Cognitive biases:
  • as artifacts
  • auditory looming as
  • commitment skepticism as
  • diseased/injured person aversion
  • as error management biases
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • food aversion as
  • foundations of
  • as heuristics
  • interpersonal perception biases as
  • natural selection effects on
  • overview of
  • physical landscape property estimates as
  • positive illusions and unrealistic optimism as
  • potentially threatening people perceptions as
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination as result of
  • religious beliefs supported by
  • self-judgment biases as
  • sex differences in
  • sexual overperception as
  • social exchange bias as
  • status hierarchy in relation to
  • threatening object movement estimates as
  • threat-relevant biases as
  • in war and military leadership
• Cognitive function. See also Cognitive psychology; Neuropsychology
  • advantages of limitations in
  • cognitive biases and
  • cultural evolution impacting
  • decision making as
  • developmental impacts on
  • evolved probabilistic cognitive mechanisms in
  • hierarchical organization of
  • information processing as
  • learning as
  • memory as
  • reasoning as
  • religious beliefs and behaviors rooted in
  • war and military leadership impacted by
• Cognitive psychology:
  • advantages of limited cognitive systems in
  • decision making in
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • forgetting in
  • memory in
  • overview of
  • reasoning in
  • representations of information in
  • selective pressures on cognitive mechanisms
• Competition:
  • coalitional, in politics
  • competitive helping and reputation
  • cultural evolution shaped by intergroup competition
  • religious cooperation intensified by
  • status hierarchy based on
  • women's competition and aggression
• Conflict. See also Threats; Violence
  • group living leading to (see Group living)
  • group selection during
  • interpersonal conflict and violence
  • moral judgments as basis of
  • moral judgments to choose sides in
  • religious cooperation shaped by and contributing to
  • rituals related to
• Consumer psychology:
  • biophilia hypothesis in
  • conspicuous consumption in
  • evolutionary psychology applied in
  • food intake and choice in
  • gift giving in
  • mating as basis for
  • menstrual and ovulatory cycles in
  • overview of
  • physical attractiveness in
  • prospect-refuge theory in
  • socialization considered in
  • survival as basis for
  • theoretical, epistemological, and methodological benefits of evolutionary perspective in
• Continuously Updated Virtual Reality
• Cooperation:
  • anthropological perspectives on
  • coalition formation based on
  • group living based on (see Group living)
  • group selection as explanation for
  • indirect reciprocity of
  • large-scale
  • public policy issues of
  • religion in relation to
  • reputation for
  • rituals as signal of
• Costly signaling theory
• Credibility-enhancing displays (CREDs)
• Cultural evolution:
  • adaptation building in
  • anthropological perspectives on
  • conformist transmission in
  • content-rich mechanisms in
  • credibility-enhancing displays in
  • cultural maladaptations in
  • culture and coordination reflected in
  • of disease and pathogen transmission avoidance
  • evolving to be cultural species
  • existence of
  • gene evolution and
  • intergroup competition shaping
  • learning role in
  • methods and mechanisms of
  • overview of
  • psychology of cultural species
  • real world impacts of
  • of religion
  • research in
  • of rituals
  • self-similarity of role models in
  • skill, success, and prestige influencing
  • sociality influencing
• Culture and coordination:
  • biocultural research on
  • cross-cultural variation and uniformity
  • cultural evolution in
  • cultural moderators of women's competition and aggression
  • cultural perspective on social exchange
  • group selection in
  • morality in
  • overview of
  • religion in
  • reputation in
  • rituals in
  • status hierarchy in

• Darwin, Charles:
  • genetics lack of knowledge of
  • on morality
  • natural selection theory of (see Natural selection)
  • personality theories inspired by
• Depression. See also Sadness
  • depressive disorders
  • developmental changes in
  • hormonal influences on
  • inflammation role in
  • mental health field understanding of
  • personality relationship to
  • postpartum
  • social exclusion leading to
  • status hierarchy in relation to
• Developmental psychology:
  • adaptations of infancy, childhood, and adolescence in
  • biological and environmental factors as developmental constraints in
  • conditional adaptations in
  • deferred adaptations in
  • developmental plasticity and adaptive individual differences in
  • developmental trade-offs in
  • environmental factors in
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • imitation in
  • life history theory on
  • mental health aspects of
  • natural selection effects in
  • ontogenetic adaptations in
  • overview of
  • phenotype and differential susceptibility in
  • prosociality in
  • reproduction-related issues in
  • social development in
• Discrimination. See Prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination
• Disease and pathogen transmission. See also Health
  • anthropological perspectives on
  • cognitive bias of diseased/injured person aversion
  • cultural evolution of avoidance of
  • disgust as tool to avoid
  • food intake and choice impacting
  • mental disorder vulnerability relationship to
  • morality motive to avoid
  • parasite-stress theory on
  • political stance on
  • prejudices to avoid
  • social psychology on avoidance of
• Disgust:
  • anthropological perspectives on
  • disease and pathogen transmission avoidance via
  • moral beliefs and judgments triggering
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination based on
• Disruptive behavior/conduct disorders
• Domestic violence:
  • child abuse as
  • intimate partner violence as
• Eating disorders
• Economics:
  • absolute and relative income impacting
  • behavioral law and economics approach to
  • consumer behavior impacted by
  • GDP-centered policies in relation to
  • homo economicus
  • mate choice influenced by
  • political stance on
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination based on
  • public policy issues in relation to
  • reproduction influenced by
  • social exchange in terms of
  • subsistence economies, (see also Hunter-gatherers)
  • trust impacting economic exchanges
• Electronic Human Relations Area Files (eHRAF)
• Emotions:
  • aggression as response to
  • anger as
  • anthropological perspectives on
  • anxiety as
  • developmental changes in
  • disease and pathogen transmission avoidance via
  • disgust as
  • fear as
  • hormonal impacts on
  • jealousy as
  • literature and the arts evoking
  • mating-related
  • mental health field understanding of
  • moral beliefs and judgments triggering
  • neuropsychology of
  • personality relationship to
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination based on
  • pride as
  • protective aspects of
  • sadness as, (see also Depression)
  • sex differences in
  • shame as
  • social exclusion impacting
  • status hierarchy in relation to
  • women's competition and aggression impacted by
• Endocrinology. See also Hormones
  • emotion relationship to
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • of females
  • future research in
  • in human species
  • of males
  • mate pursuit and endocrine signals
  • in nonhuman species
  • overview of
  • sex differences in
• Environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA)
• Error management biases/theory
• Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS)
• Evolutionary game theory:
  • on cooperation
  • on group selection
  • on prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination
  • on social exchange
  • on status hierarchy
• Evolutionary psychology:
  • culture and coordination in (see Culture and coordination)
  • group living as basis for (see Group living)
  • overview of
  • practical applications of (see Practical applications of evolutionary psychology)
  • traditional academic disciplines interfaces with (see Traditional academic disciplines)
  • traditional psychology interfaces with (see Traditional psychology disciplines)
• Evolved probabilistic cognitive mechanisms

• Families. See Mating; Parenting and kinship
• Fear:
  • aggression as response to
  • neuropsychology of
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination based on
  • sex differences in
  • of snakes
• Food intake and choice:
  • anthropological perspectives on
  • cognitive bias of food aversion
  • consumer psychology on
  • cross-cultural differences in
  • cultural evolution of
  • decision making regarding
  • disease and pathogen transmission via
  • mating-related
  • obesity from excess
  • political stance on
  • rituals associated with
  • sex differences in provision of
  • status hierarchy related to
  • women's competition and aggression related to

• Game theory. See Evolutionary game theory
• Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals
• Gender differences. See Sex differences
• General rationality hypothesis
• The Genetic Book of the Dead
• Genetics:
  • balancing selection in
  • biological function of genes in
  • candidate gene studies in
  • cultural and gene evolution
  • developmental stability indicators correlations with
  • evolutionary forces on
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • gene flow or migration in
  • genetic architecture for
  • genetic drift in
  • genetic variants in
  • genome and exome triplets and quads in
  • genome-wide association studies in
  • genome-wide complex trait analysis in
  • inbreeding depression and outbreeding elevation in
  • linkage studies in
  • maintenance mechanisms in
  • migration-selection balance in
  • multiple trait correlations in
  • mutation-drift balance in
  • mutation in
  • mutation-selection balance in
  • natural selection in
  • negative frequency-dependent selection in
  • over time
  • overview of
  • parasitic DNA in
  • parental care based on
  • paternal age effects in
  • phenotype in relation to
  • reproductive fitness and mate preferences in relation to
  • research tools in
  • runs of homozygosity in
  • segregation distorter genes in
  • sequenced exomes and genomes in
  • twin and family studies in
• Gift giving
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, The Sorrows of Young Werther
• Group living:
  • interpersonal conflict and violence in
  • overview of
  • prejudices in
  • social exchange in
  • war and military leadership in
  • women's competition and aggression in
• Group selection:
  • altruism explained by
  • coercion in
  • cultural evolution and
  • culture and coordination reflected in
  • definition and description of
  • eusociality explained by
  • false allure of
  • group traits explained by
  • individual adaptations benefiting group vs. self in
  • individual traits explained by
  • moral behavior in relation to
  • overview of
  • reciprocity explained by
  • religion reflecting
  • reputation management explained by
  • rituals as tools for
  • self-sacrifice and
• Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research

• Hadza
• Health. See also Disease and pathogen transmission
  • personality relationship to
  • prejudices to protect
  • stress and inequality impacting
• Height
• Homosexuals. See Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals
• Hormones. See also Endocrinology
  • emotions impacted by
  • mate pursuit impacted by
  • in nonhuman species
  • sex differences impacted by
  • sex differences in
  • social exchange and
  • status hierarchy relationship to
  • women's competition and aggression related to
• Hunter-gatherers. See also specific peoples (e.g., Ache)
  • anthropological perspectives on
  • child mortality among
  • coalition formation among
  • cooperation among
  • cultural evolution impacting success as
  • interpersonal conflict and violence among
  • organizational leadership among
  • paternal death impacts among
  • political psychology among
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination among
  • religion among
  • rituals among
  • social exchange among
  • status hierarchy among
  • war and military leadership among

• Imitation/overimitation:
  • anthropological perspectives on
  • cultural evolution involving
  • developmental issues of
  • rituals involving
• Immigrants, prejudices against
• Immune system:
  • behavioral
  • depression and inflammation links
  • disease threats assessed by
  • stress and inequality activating
• Inbreeding/incest avoidance
• Interpersonal conflict and violence:
  • child abuse as
  • evolutionary perspective on
  • group living involving
  • homicides as
  • intimate partner violence as
  • kinship mitigating
  • male rivalry as basis for
  • overview of
  • parenting-related
  • violence as window on conflict

• Jealousy:
  • mental health field understanding of
  • sexual
  • women's competition and aggression related to

• Kinship. See Parenting and kinship
• !Kung

• Language:
  • cultural evolution of
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination based on
  • rituals and
  • social exchange in absence of
• Law and legal systems:
  • behavioral law and economics approach to
  • biolegal history on
  • causation considered in
  • comparative effectiveness of legal strategies in
  • cost-benefit analysis for
  • criminal justice system in
  • ecological rationality on
  • error management theory on
  • evolutionary psychology applied in
  • future research on
  • historical advances in
  • increasing accuracy of
  • increasing efficiency in
  • increasing human behavior understanding for
  • law of law's leverage on
  • obstacles to improvements in
  • overview of
  • patterns in legal architecture for
  • patterns of behavior impacting
  • policy conflicts in
  • prediction of behavior patterns for
  • rational choice theory on
  • theoretical foundation for
  • time-shifted rationality on
  • unwarranted assumptions in
• Leadership:
  • organizational
  • political
  • status hierarchy and
  • war and military
• Learning mechanisms:
  • cultural evolution dependence on
  • for rituals
  • social development dependence on
  • for social exchange
• Life history theory:
  • developmental plasticity and
  • food intake and choice in
  • literary study in
  • personality in
  • public policy influences in
  • women's competition and aggression in
• Literary study:
  • adaptive function of the arts
  • analysis of literary representation meaning in
  • biocultural research informing
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • evolutionary studies programs including
  • future of
  • human nature, cultural norms, and the arts
  • imaginative virtual worlds in
  • opinions on adaptive function of
  • overview of
  • world views of authors and critics of

• Mae Enga
• Mating. See also Reproduction; Sex and sexuality
  • cognitive biases toward
  • consumer psychology on
  • cultural learning of
  • developmental stages leading to
  • emotions in relation to
  • endocrine signals impacting
  • food intake and choice in relation to
  • genetic issues related to
  • gift giving in
  • inbreeding/incest avoidance in
  • interpersonal conflict and violence related to
  • intimate partner violence in
  • law and legal systems on
  • mate choice in
  • mate retention in
  • monogamous
  • moral beliefs and judgments on
  • nonhuman, specifically
  • personality relationship to
  • physical attractiveness and
  • political stance on
  • polyandrous
  • polygamous
  • polygynous
  • reputation impacting
  • sex differences in
  • sexual infidelity in
  • sexual jealousy in
  • social psychology on
  • status hierarchy impacting
  • women's competition and aggression related to
• Memory
• Men:
  • endocrine systems in
  • genetic paternal age effects in
  • operational sex ratio for
  • paternal investment among
  • reproduction in (see Mating; Reproduction)
  • rivalry among, violence and
  • sex differences of women and (see Sex differences)
• Mental health. See also Psychopathology
  • child abuse prevention in
  • contributions of evolutionary perspective on
  • developmental psychology on
  • diagnoses in
  • emotions and emotional disorders in, (see also Anxiety; Depression)
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • explaining vulnerability to mental disorders in
  • human behavior and emotions in
  • implications of evolutionary perspective for
  • individual differences considered in
  • individual lives influencing
  • overview of
  • relationships impacting
  • specific disorders in
• Meru
• Military leadership. See War and military leadership
• Morality:
  • beyond harm and altruism with
  • complex, implicit, and variable nature of
  • components of moral representations
  • conflict and agreement over
  • conflict side selection based on
  • coordination function of
  • culture and coordination reflected in
  • definition of
  • diversity of moral rules
  • emotions related to
  • group selection as basis for
  • impartiality vs. favoritism of
  • kin selection and
  • moral foundations theory on
  • moral phenomena
  • nonconsequentialism on
  • overview of
  • political psychology on
  • prejudice reduction based on
  • punishment related to
  • religion and
  • social exchange in relation to
• Munda

• Natural selection:
  • anthropology consideration of
  • biological function and dysfunction reflecting
  • clinical psychology in relation to
  • cognitive biases based on
  • cognitive mechanisms impacted by
  • cultural evolution based on
  • developmental psychology consideration of
  • genetic replication in
  • group selection as, (see also Group selection)
  • interpersonal conflict and violence in terms of
  • political psychology consideration of
  • religious origins based on
  • rituals based on
  • sexual selection as
  • social exchange based on
  • status hierarchy based on
• Neuropsychology. See also Cognitive function; Cognitive psychology
  • endocrinology links to
  • social contract and precaution dissociation based on
  • of threat response
  • of women's competition and aggression
• Nukak

• Obesity:
  • eating disorders related to
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination related to
  • status hierarchy impacting
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Operational sex ratios
• Oraon
• Organizational leadership:
  • adaptive systems and
  • alignment via
  • Big Man model of
  • charismatic leaders in
  • commitment via
  • definition and description of
  • direction via
  • evolutionary psychology applied in
  • future of
  • historical perspectives on
  • Leadership Formula for
  • in natural world
  • niche construction in
  • overview of
  • personality in
  • self-regulated leaders in
  • shared leadership in
  • social exchange in
  • theories of leadership
  • TOTE model of
  • transformational leaders in
  • universal leaders in
  • vision in
  • women in
• Overimitation. See Imitation/overimitation
• Parasite-stress theory
• Parenting and kinship:
  • alliances with kin
  • developmental issues related to
  • domestic violence in
  • genetic twin and family studies
  • gift giving in
  • inbreeding/incest avoidance in
  • interpersonal conflict and violence in relation to
  • law and legal systems on
  • morality and kin selection
  • nepotistic altruism in
  • paternal investment in
  • political psychology influenced by
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination to support
  • sex differences in
  • social psychology on
  • status hierarchy impacting
  • stepparents in
  • women's competition and aggression related to
• Personality psychology:
  • adaptive significance theories in
  • agreeableness in
  • Cognitive Differentiation-Integration Effort theory in
  • controversies on interpretation of GFP in
  • coral reef model in
  • differential psychology constructs of GFP in
  • ecological systems theory applied in
  • empirical testing of theories in
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • evolutionary theories of
  • extraversion in
  • Five-Factor Model of personality in
  • frequency dependence theories in
  • Freud's psychoanalytic approach to
  • Galton's lexical approach to
  • General Factor of Personality (GFP) in
  • Hippocrates's humoral approach to
  • historical perspectives on
  • Jung's archetypal approach to
  • life history model approach to
  • mating in
  • neuroticism in
  • organizational leadership in relation to
  • overview of
  • Principle of Brunswik-Symmetry in
  • resource allocation in
  • selective neutrality theories in
  • Strategic Differentiation-Integration Effort (SD-IE) theory in
  • theoretical interpretations of empirical testing in
• Physical attractiveness/appearance:
  • consumer psychology on
  • facial characteristics in
  • fluctuating asymmetry of
  • height in
  • mating/mate choice influenced by
  • physical dominance
  • political psychology on
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination based on
  • status hierarchy based on
  • strength in
  • war and military leadership in relation to
  • women's competition and aggression in relation to
• Political psychology:
  • adaptations for political behavior in
  • adaptations for political judgment in
  • coalitional psychology in
  • definition and description of politics
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • framing information in
  • informational warfare and vigilance in
  • leaders and followers in
  • mass politics in
  • morality judgments in
  • myth of (ir)rational voter in
  • overview of
  • persuasion strategies in
  • physical dominance/appearance in
  • poverty of ecologically valid stimuli in
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination related to
  • principles of
  • status hierarchy in
• Practical applications of evolutionary psychology:
  • consumer psychology as
  • law and legal systems as
  • organizational leadership as
  • overview of
  • public policy as
• Pregnancy. See also Reproduction
  • abortion of
  • developmental issues related to
  • food intake and choice during
  • immune response during
  • women's competition and aggression related to
• Prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination:
  • affordance management view of
  • coalition- or alliance-based
  • cognitive bias as basis for
  • cost-benefit ratio of
  • disease avoidance via
  • foreigners/immigrants as target of
  • functional flexibility of
  • group living involving
  • overview of
  • reducing and confronting
  • religious
  • sex and age
  • social dominance theory on
  • status hierarchy in relation to
  • threat-management psychology underlying
  • war and military leadership impacted by
• Pride
• Prospect-refuge theory
• Prospect theory
• Psychology disciplines. See Evolutionary psychology; Traditional psychology disciplines
• Psychopathology. See also Mental health
  • addiction as
  • anxiety disorders as, (see also Anxiety)
  • attention disorders as
  • autism as
  • behavioral disorders as
  • biological function and dysfunction in
  • depressive disorders as, (see also Depression)
  • as designed function failure in
  • disruptive behavior/conduct disorders as
  • eating disorders as
  • as evolutionary dysfunction
  • as harmful dysfunction
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder as
  • pitfalls in arguments related to
  • psychotic disorders as
  • schizophrenia as
  • sexual dysfunctions/disorders as
  • sleep disorders as
  • substance dependence as
• Psychotic disorders
• Public policy:
  • absolute and relative income impacting
  • cooperation impacting
  • development policy goals in
  • economic issues in relation to
  • evolutionary psychology applied in
  • GDP-centered policies as
  • greed vs. generosity traits impacting
  • life history theory on
  • overview of
  • patience vs. impatience traits impacting
  • personal preferences impacting
  • psychological mechanisms influencing
  • reputation considered in
  • socialization needs considered in
  • social norms considered in
  • social welfare as
  • status hierarchy and inequality impacting
  • trust issues considered in

• Race and ethnicity
• Rape
• Reasoning:
  • about precautionary rules
  • about social exchange
  • about threats
  • conditional
  • dedicated system vs. general intelligence for
  • motivated, in politics
  • representations of information influencing
• Religion:
  • Big Gods correlation with group size in
  • cognitive biases supporting
  • cognitive capacity for
  • conflicts in relation to
  • cooperation and
  • costly signaling theory on
  • credibility-enhancing displays of
  • cultural evolution of
  • culture and coordination reflected in
  • definition of
  • future research on
  • group selection as basis for
  • intolerance toward atheists in
  • literary foundations of
  • morality and
  • overview of
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination related to
  • puzzles of
  • religious priming effects in
  • rituals associated with
  • secular institutions filling role of
  • supernatural punishment hypothesis on
  • supernatural surveillance in
  • world
• Reproduction. See also Mating; Pregnancy
  • developmental issues related to
  • genetic paternal age effects on
  • group selection impacts on
  • parental care based on future opportunities for
  • personality and fertility relationships impacting
  • political stance on
  • sex differences in
  • status hierarchy impacting
  • women's competition and aggression related to
• Reputation:
  • ability, tendency, and availability as basis of
  • for aggression
  • competitive helping and
  • conferring benefits impacting
  • for cooperation
  • costly signaling theory on
  • culture and coordination reflected in
  • definition and description of
  • future directions in research on
  • group selection on
  • harnessing the power of
  • indirect reciprocity in relation to
  • inflicting costs impacting
  • influencing own and others’
  • overview of
  • public policy consideration of
  • reasons for existence of
  • types of
  • women's competition and aggression impacting
• Rituals:
  • cooperation facilitated via
  • as credibility-enhancing displays
  • cultural evolution of
  • cultural transmission of
  • culture and coordination reflected in
  • definition of
  • diversity of
  • group cohesion increased via
  • group commitment demonstrated via
  • group conformity expressed via
  • group member identification via
  • imitation in
  • ontogeny of ritual cognition
  • overview of
  • religious
  • social exclusion motivating participation in
  • social functions of

• Sadness. See also Depression
• San
• Schizophrenia
• Sex and sexuality. See also Mating; Reproduction
  • cognitive biases toward
  • consumer psychology on
  • decision making about
  • developmental stages leading to
  • inbreeding/incest avoidance in
  • interpersonal conflict and violence related to
  • law and legal system on
  • moral beliefs and judgments on
  • pornography depicting
  • sex differences in
  • sexual dysfunctions/disorders
  • sexual infidelity
  • sexual jealousy
  • sexual overperception
  • sexual selection
  • sexual violence
  • status hierarchy impacting
  • women's competition and aggression related to
• Sex differences. See also Men; Women
  • in aggression
  • in anger
  • in cognitive biases
  • consumer behavior reflecting
  • cultural evolution impacted by
  • development of
  • in endocrine signals
  • in fear
  • of food provision
  • in gift giving
  • hormonal impacts on
  • in leadership preferences
  • in mating
  • in mental health issues
  • operational sex ratios
  • in parenting
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination based on
  • in status striving
  • in threat response
• Shame
• Shiwiar
• Shuar
• Sleep disorders
• Snakes, fear of
• Social exchange:
  • adaptive not formal logic applied to
  • adaptive specialization hypothesis on
  • benefit removal in
  • cheater detection in
  • cognitive bias in
  • conditional reasoning and
  • cross-cultural invariances and dissociations in reasoning for
  • dedicated system vs. general intelligence for
  • design features of
  • domain-general learning building specialization for
  • economic models on
  • as evolutionarily stable strategy
  • general rationality hypothesis on
  • group living involving
  • hormones in relation to
  • intentional violations vs. innocent mistakes in
  • leader-follower exchange as
  • morality in relation to
  • natural selection pressures on
  • neuropsychological dissociation between social contracts and precautions for
  • overview of
  • permission schema on
  • perspective change in
  • political psychology influenced by
  • precocious development of reasoning for
  • reasoning about
  • reasoning about precautionary rules vs.
  • reasoning about threats vs.
  • social contract for
  • switched social contracts in
  • unfamiliar rules in
  • Wason selection task applied to
  • zoological and cultural perspective on
• Socialization:
  • consumer psychology in terms of
  • cultural evolution impacted by
  • development as social species
  • prosociality in
  • public policy consideration of need for
  • social exchange and
  • social exclusion from
  • social psychology of
• Social psychology:
  • coalition formation in
  • decision rules in
  • disease avoidance in
  • dynamic models in
  • evolutionary psychology interfaces with
  • kin vs. nonkin alliances in
  • mating in
  • overview of
  • parental care in
  • self-protection in
  • social exclusion in
  • status in
• Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law
• Socioeconomic status. See Economics; Status hierarchy
• The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe)
• Standard social science model
• Status hierarchy:
  • absolute and relative income in relation to
  • cognitive bias in relation to
  • culture and coordination reflected in
  • definitions related to
  • emotions in relation to
  • evolutionary psychology perspective on
  • evolved status mechanisms in
  • game theory and
  • hormonal relationship to
  • law and legal system consideration of
  • leadership and
  • mating impacted by
  • overview of
  • parenting impacted by
  • physical appearance and
  • political psychology in relation to
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination related to
  • service-for-prestige theory on
  • sex differences in striving for
  • social psychology on
  • verbal and nonverbal indicators of
• Stereotypes. See Prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination
• Substance dependence
• Suicide:
  • cultural learning of
  • group selection and self-sacrifice via
  • mental health field understanding of
  • perpetrator and victim as same agent in

• Theory of mind
• Threats. See also Conflict
  • immune system disease threat assessments
  • neuropsychology of threat response
  • reasoning about
  • sex differences in threat response
  • threat-management psychology underlying prejudices
  • threat-relevant cognitive biases
  • women's competition and aggression as threat response
• Tiv
• Traditional academic disciplines:
  • anthropology as
  • endocrinology as, (see also Hormones)
  • genetics as
  • literary study as
  • overview of
  • political psychology as
• Traditional psychology disciplines:
  • clinical psychology/biological function and dysfunction as
  • cognitive bias in
  • cognitive psychology as
  • developmental psychology as
  • mental health in
  • overview of
  • personality psychology in
  • social psychology as
• Tsembaga
• Tsimane
• Turkana

• Valuation and preferences:
  • consumer psychology analyzing
  • cultural evolution shaping
  • mate choice based on
  • prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination based on
  • public policy impacted by
• Violence. See also Aggression; Conflict; War and military leadership
  • child abuse as
  • domestic
  • homicides as
  • interpersonal conflict and violence
  • intimate partner
  • moral beliefs and judgments about
  • prejudices leading to
  • prejudices to protect against
  • reputation for
  • sexual
  • status hierarchy in relation to
  • suicide as self-violence
  • women's competition and aggression leading to

• War and military leadership:
  • in chiefdoms
  • coalitionary psychology and
  • cognition in
  • differences in modern
  • evolved traits for
  • group living involving
  • ingroup/outgroup bias in
  • judgment and decision-making biases in
  • leadership defined for
  • legacy of evolution for
  • military horizon for
  • military intelligence hypothesis on
  • modern/current day
  • natural history of
  • in nature
  • overconfidence in
  • overview of
  • in primates
  • prospect theory on
  • in small-scale human societies
  • social organization in
  • war defined for
  • Xenophon example of
• Wason selection task
• Werther effect
• Women:
  • competition and aggression among
  • endocrine systems in
  • leadership by
  • menstrual and ovulatory cycles in
  • operational sex ratio for
  • reproduction in (see Mating; Pregnancy; Reproduction)
  • sex differences of men and (see Sex differences)
• Women's competition and aggression:
  • ecological and cultural moderators of
  • group living involving
  • hormonal impacts on
  • mating-related
  • neuropsychology of
  • overview of
  • proximate mediators and mechanisms of
  • reproduction- and parenting-related
  • reputational impacts of
  • rewards and costs of
  • sexual selection as basis for
  • as threat response
  • violence escalation in

• Yanomamö