Life history theory posits that behavioral adaptation to various environmental (ecological
and/or social) conditions encountered during childhood is regulated by a wide variety of …

Highlights•Evolutionary-developmental models posit that parental behaviors are context-
specific.•Parenting shapes child developmental domains to aid in survival and …

Guided by principles from life-history theory, theories of adaptive calibration provide an
overarching theoretical framework for understanding the developmental roots of impulsivity …

Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of
psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in …

Within the evolutionary life history (LH) framework, aggression and risk‐taking are adaptive
implementations of a fast LH strategy to adapt to environmental unsafety and …

In addition to what we know as benevolent creativity, which involves originality and
usefulness, creativity also includes malevolent creativity, which involves the application of …

This research differentiated childhood unpredictability (ie, perceptions of uncertainty or
instability due to turbulent environmental changes) from other related constructs to identify …

This chapter presents a theoretical framework that highlights the role of social cognition in
mediating the effects of discrimination on health. This framework suggests that through …

Behavioral addictions are associated with detrimental consequences to one's functioning
and wellbeing and hence have raised both public and clinical concerns. Both smartphone …

Life History Theory posits early-life adversities affect personality development partway
through sensitizing individuals to certain environmental cues, thus influencing the person's …