title: Evolutionary Psychology creator: Heylighen, Francis subject: Evolutionary Psychology description: Evolutionary psychology (EP) is an approach to the study of the mind that is founded on Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. It assumes that our mental abilities, emotions and preferences are adapted specifically for solving problems of survival and reproduction in humanity’s ancestral environment, and derives testable predictions from this assumption. This has important implications for our understanding of the conditions for human well-being. publisher: Springer contributor: Michalos, Alex date: 2011 type: Book Chapter type: NonPeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/7264/1/EvolutionaryPsychology-QOL.pdf identifier: Heylighen, Francis (2011) Evolutionary Psychology. [Book Chapter] (In Press) relation: http://cogprints.org/7264/