The Evolutionary Psychology of the Emotions and Their Relationship to Internal Regulatory Variables
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@MISC{Tooby_theevolutionary,
author = {John Tooby and Leda Cosmides},
title = {The Evolutionary Psychology of the Emotions and Their Relationship to Internal Regulatory Variables},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Evolutionary psychology is an attempt to unify the psychological, social, and behavioral sciences theoretically and empirically within a single, mutually consistent, seamless scientific framework. The core of this enterprise is the integration of principles and findings drawn from evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology, economics, and neuroscience with psychology in order to produce highresolution maps of human nature. By “human nature, ” evolutionary psychologists mean the evolved, reliably developing, species-typical computational architecture of the human mind, together with the physical structures and processes (in the brain, in development, and in genetics) that give rise to this informationprocessing architecture. For evolutionary psychologists, all forms of knowledge about brains and behavior are relevant, but the pivotal step is using these facts to form accurate models of the information-processing structure of psychological mechanisms.
