There are many advantages to defining emotions as states elicited by reinforcers, with the
states having a set of different functions. This approach leads towards an understanding of …

For years, psychiatry has operated without a unified theory of behavior; instead, it has
spawned a pluralism of approaches--including biomedical, psychoanalytic, behavioral, and …

Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the adaptive problems early humans faced in
ancestral human environments, the nature of psychological mechanisms natural selection …

Freud's Oedipal theory sees parent‐offspring conflict as a within‐gender rivalry, whereas
most modern evolutionary models interpret it as a gender‐blind disagreement about …

Developmental researchers agree that humans evolved through a process of natural
selection. At least, few researchers publicly disagree with that position. However …

As cognitive psychologists ask more about the origins and functions of mental mech anisms,
they tum to evolutionary theory (Boden, 1987; Buss, 1984; Cosmides & Tooby, 1987; Tooby …

Publisher Summary In humans, self-recognition of own reflection is commonplace but not
universal. The capacity to recognize self in a mirror appears to be subject to maturational …

I argue that a good deal of integration is taking place within personality psychology today,
prompted in part by researchers taking fresh looks at ideas that have been around for some …

Many parallels have recently been drawn between Freud's early work and the goals of the
contemporary neurophysiology of mind and sociobiology In this article it is argued that the …

7. A higher order syntactic thought (HOST) theory of consciousness: Page 1 7. A higher order
syntactic thought (HOST) theory of consciousness Pages 137–172 of Higher-Order Theories of …