Research on co** during childhood and adolescence is distinguished by its focus on how
children deal with actual stressors in real-life contexts. Despite burgeoning literatures within …

Although it is well known that anxious adults show selective attention to threatening stimuli,
research investigating attentional bias in children with anxiety has produced mixed results …

Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the
beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own …

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary …

Abstract Johnson and Morton (1991. Biology and Cognitive Development: The Case of Face
Recognition. Blackwell, Oxford) used Gabriel Horn's work on the filial imprinting model to …

Evolutionary psychology has emerged over the past 15 years as a major theoretical
perspective, generating an increasing volume of empirical studies and assuming a larger …

Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences are increasingly using evolutionary
insights to test novel hypotheses about human psychology. Because evolutionary …

Cognitive Science provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the study of the
mind. The authors examine the mind from the perspective of different fields, including …

In 1984, Edward O. Wilson proposed the idea that natural selection has resulted in an
adaptive love of life-forms and life–like processes ('biophilia') in humans. To date, the idea of …

Humans carry with them sophisticated perceptual and inferential machinery for dealing with
predators and prey. This chapter reviews strands of research from many fields that are …