Evolutionary psychology is the second wave of the cognitive revolution. The first wave
focused on computational processes that generate knowledge about the world: perception …

Moralizing religions, unlike religions with morally indifferent gods or spirits, appeared only
recently in some (but not all) large-scale human societies. A crucial feature of these new …

The common factors have a long history in the field of psychotherapy theory, research and
practice. To understand the evidence supporting them as important therapeutic elements …

A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to
explore the development and workings of human societies.“There is no good reason why …

Die zweite Auflage des Titels" The Great Psychotherapy Debate" von Bruce E. Wampold und
Zac E. Imel liegt nun in der deutschsprachigen Adaption von Christoph Flückiger vor. Das …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on
prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories …

The long‐term scientific goal toward which evolutionary psychologists are working is the
mapping of the universal human nature. Evolutionary psychology provokes so much …

The present article examines how people's belief in an afterlife, as well as closely related
supernatural beliefs, may open an empirical backdoor to our understanding of the evolution …

Although it is well established that psychotherapy is remarkably effective, the change
process in psychotherapy is not well understood. Psychotherapy is compared with medicine …