Snark Hunting and Non-Traditional Models for the Biology of Monogamy Nicholas Grebe Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Occidental College Since the 1950s, the field of organismal biology has warned against a single-minded focus on common, easy-to-study animal models—the lab rat being the canonical example—that comes at the expense of understanding both diversity and commonality in […]
The evolutionary psychology of psychology David Pietraszewski Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB Sciences progress when the perspective-dependence of their inquiry is taken into account and corrected for. This happened in astronomy, physics, and chemistry, but it has not yet happened in the psychological and behavioral sciences. Because human beings have no choice but to use […]
The adaptivity of children’s search processes Andreas Wilke Clarkson University, Department of Psychology Humans and other organisms must search effectively for the resources they need, whether these are physical (e.g., food or shelter) or informational (e.g., patterns in the world, or concepts stored in memory). Most human search studies have focused on brief (static) laboratory […]
