A CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of 2018. A novel approach to
understanding personality, based on evidence that we share more than we realize with …

The nature/nurture question is an age-old problem. Beyond Evolutionary Psychology deals
with the relation between culture, evolution, psychology and emotion, based both in the …

The tendency for cohabiting mammals to organise themselves into dominance hierarchies is
a well-documented phenomenon and has consistently been linked to the activity of …

Human development has become particularly complex during the evolution. In this
complexity, adolescence is an extremely important developmental stage. Adolescence is …

Purpose–In recent decades, some sociologists have turned to evolutionary biology,
neuroscience, and cognitive science to support, modify, and reconfigure existing social …

As a discipline, biopsychology aims to explain experience and behavior based on how the
brain and the rest of the central nervous system work. Biopsychological approaches to …

Sense of agency (SoA) refers to feelings of being in control of one's actions. Evidence
suggests that SoA might contribute towards higher-order feelings of personal control–a key …

This chapter provides an overview of biological approaches to motivational psychology.
These approaches see the affective evaluation of stimuli as the foundation of motivation and …

Despite being a central topic, current theories of motivation in sociology remain
underdeveloped. This paper supplements existing sociological theories on motivation with …

Introduction Research in the field of cognitive neuroscience has focused on the role of sleep
in various neurocognitive processes such as memory consolidation. However, an area that …