Incorporating epigenetic mechanisms to advance fetal programming theories

E Conradt, DE Adkins, SE Crowell, KL Raby… - Development and …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Decades of fetal programming research indicates that we may be able to map the origins of
many physical, psychological, and medical variations and morbidities before the birth of the …

The psychometric evaluation of human life histories: A reply to Figueredo, Cabeza de Baca, Black, Garcia, Fernandes, Wolf, and Woodley (2015)

LT Copping, A Campbell, S Muncer… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
A recent critique of Copping, Campbell, and Muncer raised several issues concerning the
validity of psychometric assessment techniques in the study of life history (LH) strategies. In …

The adaptive calibration model of stress responsivity: An empirical test in the Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey study

BJ Ellis, AJ Oldehinkel, E Nederhof - Development and …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The adaptive calibration model (ACM) is a theory of developmental programing focusing on
calibration of stress response systems and associated life history strategies to local …

Intimate partner violence, interpersonal aggression, and life history strategy.

AJ Figueredo, WJ Jacobs, PR Gladden… - Evolutionary …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
We integrate life history (LH) theory with “hot/cool” systems theory of self-regulation to
predict sexually and socially coercive behaviors, including intimate partner violence (IPV) …

The behavioral correlates of overall and distinctive life history strategy.

RA Sherman, AJ Figueredo… - Journal of Personality and …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Life history (LH) theory provides an evolutionary theoretical framework for understanding
individual differences in maturation, mating, reproduction, parenting, and social interaction …

Demography and the rise, apparent fall, and resurgence of eugenics

R Sear - Population studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Demography was heavily involved in the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century
but, along with most other social science disciplines, largely rejected eugenic thinking in the …

Procrastination as a fast life history strategy

BB Chen, L Chang - Evolutionary Psychology, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Research has revealed that procrastination—the purposive delay of an intended course of
action—is a maladaptive behavior. However, by drawing on an evolutionary life history (LF) …

Human life history strategies: Calibrated to external or internal cues?

KJ Chua, AW Lukaszewski… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Human life history (LH) strategies are theoretically regulated by developmental exposure to
environmental cues that ancestrally predicted LH-relevant world states (eg, risk of morbidity …

Implications of life-history strategies for obesity

JK Maner, A Dittmann, AL Meltzer… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The association between low socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity is well documented.
In the current research, a life history theory (LHT) framework provided an explanation for this …

Mating fast and slow? Sociosexual orientations are not reflective of life history trajectories

T Dinh, SW Gangestad - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
Within evolutionary psychology, a dominant assumption is that adaptive variation in fast
versus slow life history strategies centrally includes variation in sociosexual orientations …