The assumption that early stress leads to dysregulation and impairment is widespread in
developmental science and informs prevailing models (eg, toxic stress). An alternative …

The idea that individual differences in behavior and physiology can be partly understood by
linking them to a fast-slow continuum of life history strategies has become popular in the …

Two extant frameworks–the harshness-unpredictability model and the threat-deprivation
model–attempt to explain which dimensions of adversity have distinct influences on …

Although early-life adversity can undermine healthy development, children growing up in
harsh environments may develop intact, or even enhanced, skills for solving problems in …

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 …

Confirmatory composite analysis (CCA) is a subtype of structural equation modeling that
assesses composite models. Composite models consist of a set of interrelated emergent …

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 …

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 …

In humans and other long-lived species, harsh conditions in early life often lead to profound
differences in adult life expectancy. In response, natural selection is expected to accelerate …

Father absence in early life has been shown to be associated with accelerated reproductive
development in girls. Evolutionary social scientists have proposed several adaptive …