Highlights•The relation between socioeconomic status (SES) and parenting is
complex.•Factors that may mediate or moderate the SES-parenting relation are …

Sex as a biological variable (SABV) is critical for understanding the broad range of
physiological, neurobiological, and behavioral consequences of early life adversity (ELA) …

Background Childhood maltreatment is associated with poor mental and physical health.
However, the mechanisms of gene–environment correlations and the potential causal …

Highlights•The paper presents an integration of attachment theory and life history
theory.•Early-life harshness and/or unpredictability promotes insecure attachment.•Adult …

Given its negative consequence, the high prevalence of smartphone addiction has become
a matter for public concern in recent years. This study takes an evolutionary approach to …

There is considerable variation in health and reproductive behaviours within and across
human populations. Drawing on principles from Life History Theory, psychosocial …

Selection and the Descent of Man through its expansive application to research in the
evolutionary psychological sciences. I begin with an abridged redux of the theory's claims …

Within evolutionary psychology, a dominant assumption is that adaptive variation in fast
versus slow life history strategies centrally includes variation in sociosexual orientations …

The species-general life history (LH) principle posits that extrinsic morbidity-mortality risks
accelerate organisms' pace of life and promotes fast LH-related traits (eg, earlier sexual …

Empirical data from the past 50 years have illuminated some of the factors that influence
pregnancy decision-making. Yet, formal models of pregnancy decision-making are …