Rethinking the fast-slow continuum of individual differences

M Del Giudice - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Children's evolved learning abilities and their implications for education

DF Bjorklund - Educational Psychology Review, 2022 - Springer
In this article, I examine children's evolved learning mechanisms that make humans the most
educable of animals. These include (1) skeletal perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that …

Why and how does early adversity influence development? Toward an integrated model of dimensions of environmental experience

BJ Ellis, MA Sheridan, J Belsky… - Development and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Two extant frameworks–the harshness-unpredictability model and the threat-deprivation
model–attempt to explain which dimensions of adversity have distinct influences on …

Chinese mothers' parental burnout and adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems: The mediating role of maternal hostility.

BB Chen, Y Qu, B Yang, X Chen - Developmental psychology, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Parental burnout is a state that parents feel exhausted in their parental role. Although past
research has examined concurrent correlates of parental burnout, the impacts of parental …

Perceptions of childhood unpredictability, delay discounting, risk-taking, and adult externalizing behaviors: A life-history approach

JL Martinez, C Hasty, D Morabito… - Development and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Guided by principles from life-history theory, theories of adaptive calibration provide an
overarching theoretical framework for understanding the developmental roots of impulsivity …

Aggression and risk‐taking as adaptive implementations of fast life history strategy

HJ Lu, L Chang - Developmental science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

COVID-19-related stressors and depression in Chinese adolescents: The effects of life history strategies and gender

Z Yang, Y Luo, Q Zhou, F Chen, Z Xu, L Ke… - Journal of affective …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people live, affecting both their
physical and mental health. Adolescents are vulnerable to the stress of the pandemic, and …

Assessing unpredictability in caregiver–child relationships: Insights from theoretical and empirical perspectives

E Ugarte, PD Hastings - Development and Psychopathology, 2024 - cambridge.org
There has been significant interest and progress in understanding the role of caregiver
unpredictability on brain maturation, cognitive and socioemotional development, and …

Debate: Facing uncertainty with (out) a sense of control–cultural influence on adolescents' response to the COVID‐19 pandemic

N Zhu, JO, HJ Lu, L Chang - Child and adolescent mental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has brought about healthcare,
economic, and psychological crises around the world. The psychological impact on …

Ecology stereotypes exist across societies and override race and family structure stereotypes.

O Sng, KEG Williams, S Tsukamoto… - Journal of Personality …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Perceivers hold ecology stereotypes—beliefs about how the environments others live in
shape their behavior. Drawing upon a life history perspective, we examine the stereotypes …