Evolutionary social scientists have argued that impulsive behavior is adaptive in harsh and
unpredictable conditions. Is this true? This paper presents a mathematical model that …

What determines variation between individuals in how they senesce, and are environmental
conditions experienced during development relevant to late-life performance? We report a …

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 …

Importance Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is often accompanied by a history of high-
risk sexual behavior and somatic comorbidities. Yet, these features are most often …

Recent dimensional models of adversity informed by a neurobiological deficit framework
highlights threat and deprivation as core dimensions, whereas models informed by an …

Since the Industrial Revolution, human societies have experienced high and sustained rates
of economic growth. Recent explanations of this sudden and massive change in economic …

Individuals exposed to deprivation tend to show a characteristic behavioral syndrome
suggestive of a short time horizon. This pattern has traditionally been attributed to the …

Individuals living in either harsh or favorable environments display well-documented
psychological and behavioral differences. For example, people in favorable environments …

Previous work has proposed that balancing energy expenditure towards body and brain
development in an optimal fashion results in a negative relationship between somatic and …

Cognitive style is a major component of individuals' life history and everyday life. However,
individual variations in cognitive styles are not well understood from an evolutionary …