During puberty, when young people are completing their education, transitioning into
employment, and forming longer-term intimate relationships, a shift in emotional regulation …

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 …

We provide a theoretical and empirical basis for the claim that individual differences exist in
developmental plasticity and that phenotypic plasticity should be a subject of study in its own …

Middle childhood—conventionally going from about 6–11 years of age—is a crucial yet
underappreciated phase of human development. On the surface, middle childhood may …

This target article presents an integrated evolutionary model of the development of
attachment and human reproductive strategies. It is argued that sex differences in …

Narrative fictions have surely become the single most widespread source of entertainment in
the world. In their free time, humans read novels and comics, watch movies and TV series …

Social mammals have three basic stages of postnatal development: infant, juvenile, and
adult. Some species also have a brief female post‐reproductive stage. The human life cycle …

The basic idea behind this work is that communication is essentially a cooperative activity
between two or more people in which the meanings of each transaction are constructed by …

Paranoia is the most common symptom of psychosis but paranoid concerns occur
throughout the general population. Here, we argue for an evolutionary approach to paranoia …

Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and
shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology …