Dynamical Evolutionary Psychology: Individual Decision Rules and Emergent Social Norms

• Main Authors: KENRICK, Douglas T., LI, Norman P., BUTNER, Jonathan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2003
• Subjects: individual decision mechanisms; dynamical evolutionary psychology; social networks; group dynamics; emergent social norms; gene-culture interactions; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/720; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1719/viewcontent/DynamicalEvolutionaryPsychology_2000_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A new theory integrating evolutionary and dynamical approaches is proposed. Following evolutionary models, psychological mechanisms are conceived as conditional decision rules designed to address fundamental problems confronted by human ancestors, with qualitatively different decision rules serving...