Evolutionary psychology
Branch of psychology
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We include updates on Human sexual activity, Meme, Attachment theory, Sexual attraction, Fight-or-flight response, Hypergamy, Dunbar's number, Fear, Human female sexuality, Biology and sexual orientation, Sensory processing sensitivity, Human nature, Human mating strategies, Westermarck effect, Behavioral modernity, Nature versus nurture ... and more.
| 2020 |
Sexual selection in humans
A research study was conducted exploring women's attraction preferences, finding that women tend to view a man as more attractive if his previous relationships ended mutually, and less attractive if he was dumped by previous partners.
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| 2018 | A research paper argued that Attachment theory represents a Western middle-class perspective, overlooking diverse caregiving practices in most of the world. |
| 2018 |
Media naturalness theory
DeClerck and Holtzman argue that experienced users can accurately convey messages through digital communication, challenging the need for visual and auditory cues.
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| 2018 | A comprehensive review was conducted that did not support the theory of women changing their type of male partner preference during different stages of their fertility cycle. |
| 2016 | A Psychological Bulletin article proposed that attachment could largely be due to heredity, calling for research focus on nonshared environmental effects using behavioral genetic designs. |
| 2016 |
Media naturalness theory
Lisiecka et al. publish research suggesting that computer-mediated communication has become as natural and intuitive as face-to-face contacts.
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| 2014 | Two meta-analyses were published with opposing conclusions about the ovulatory shift hypothesis, examining whether women's mate preferences change across their fertility cycle. |
| 2013 | A study from Utah State suggested that individuals can have different attachment styles with different people and that parents' time away from their child is not a significant predictor of attachment. |
| 2011 |
Media naturalness theory
Kock and Garza conduct a study comparing online and in-person learning experiences, finding that online students perform statistically as well as in-person students.
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| 2010 | A study in the Journal of Personality examined twins in Italy using the ACE Model, finding that shared environment was irrelevant in explaining adult attachment styles, with attachment-related anxiety and avoidance instead explained by genetics and unshared environmental factors. |
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