Some of the most emotionally powerful experiences result from the development,
maintenance, and disruption of attachment relationships. In this article, I review several …

Given the centrality of both parent–child attachment and emotion regulation in children's
development and adjustment, it is important to evaluate the relations between these …

Adrenarche is the maturational increase in adrenal androgen production that normally
begins in early childhood. It results from changes in the secretory response to …

Integrative explanations of why obesity is more prevalent in some sectors of the human
population than others are lacking. Here, we outline and evaluate one candidate …

Just as modern economies undergo periods of boom and bust, human ancestors
experienced cycles of abundance and famine. Is the adaptive response when resources …

Past research found that environmental uncertainty leads people to behave differently
depending on their childhood environment. For example, economic uncertainty leads …

This paper presents the Adaptive Calibration Model (ACM), an evolutionary–developmental
theory of individual differences in the functioning of the stress response system. The stress …

Interest in incorporating life history research from evolutionary biology into the human
sciences has grown rapidly in recent years. Two core features of this research have the …

Why do some people take risks and live for the present, whereas others avoid risks and save
for the future? The evolutionary framework of life history theory predicts that preferences for …

Maslow's pyramid of human needs, proposed in 1943, has been one of the most cognitively
contagious ideas in the behavioral sciences. Anticipating later evolutionary views of human …