Journal scope statement

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences (EBS) publishes manuscripts that accelerate the study of homo beliefs from an evolutionary perspective, with an emphasis on piece of work that integrates evolutionary theory with other approaches and perspectives from across the behavioral sciences, including the range of subdisciplines within psychology every bit well as the social sciences (east.g., sociology, political science, criminology) and humanities (eastward.m., history, literature studies).

This includes a special involvement in piece of work that explores:

  • The function of evolved mechanisms in real-world phenomena, especially when the findings hold implications for policy or exercise;
  • The expression of evolved cognitive, behavioral, and physiological mechanisms across contexts and the consequences they have for the patterns and structure of order;
  • The coaction between evolved psychological mechanisms and cultural influences in driving behavior, including papers that test established theory in new cultural contexts.

EBS publishes both empirical and theoretical manuscripts and welcomes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches. EBS volition consider research on non-human animals provided it offers some insight on a electric current question in the written report of human behavior. The journal is likewise interested in articles that seek to translate evolutionary reasoning into implications for policy and practice.

The journal also publishes short reports (of no more than 2,500 words) that present new findings in brief without a lengthy theoretical groundwork. In addition, EBS sees reproducibility as a major challenge facing science in general and encourages the submission of replication studies, especially when they test existing noesis in ways that probe underlying assumptions, and meta-analyses that assess the overall body of work around a particular question.

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Commentaries

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Abstract and keywords

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Public significance statements

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  • "A cursory cognitive–behavioral intervention for caregivers of children undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant reduced caregiver distress during the transplant hospitalization. Long-term furnishings on caregiver distress were institute for more anxious caregivers as well as caregivers of children who developed graft-versus-host disease later the transplant."
  • "Inhibitory processes, peculiarly related to temporal attention, may play a critical part in response to exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The main finding that individuals with PTSD who fabricated more clinical comeback showed faster improvement in inhibition over the course of exposure therapy supports the utility of novel therapeutic interventions that specifically target attentional inhibition and better patient-handling matching."
  • "When children participated in the enriched preschool program Caput Get-go REDI, they were more likely to follow optimal developmental trajectories of social–emotional performance through third grade. Ensuring that all children living in poverty have access to loftier-quality preschool may exist one of the more effective means of reducing disparities in schoolhouse readiness and increasing the likelihood of lifelong success.

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References

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Journal article

McCauley, South. G., & Christiansen, 1000. H. (2019). Language learning as language apply: A cross-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126(i), 1–51. https://doi.org/ten.1037/rev0000126

Authored volume

Brown, L. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2d ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, K. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. One thousand. P., & Safren, S. A. (2019). Affirmative cerebral beliefs therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In G. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive behavior therapy: Practice and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000119-012

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Editorial Lath

Editor

Catherine Salmon, PhD
University of Redlands, Usa

Associate editors

Andrew Gallup, PhD
SUNY Polytechnic Institute, United states

Jessica A. Hehman, PhD
University of Redlands, United States

Peter Karl Jonason, PhD
University of Padova, Italy

Satoshi Kanazawa, PhD
London School of Economics and Political Science, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

Andreas Wilke, PhD
Clarkson University, U.s.

Consulting editors

Abdolhossein Abdollahi, PhD
The University of Texas at El Paso & El Paso Customs College, U.s.

Alice Andrews, PhD
State University of New York at New Paltz, United States

Nicholas P. Armenti, PhD
Rutgers Academy, United States

Gordon Due north. Carry, PhD
Ramapo College, United states

David F. Bjorklund, PhD
Florida Atlantic University, U.s.a.

Paul Bloom, PhD
Yale University, United States

Mitch Brown, PhD
University of Arkansas, U.s.a.

Rebecca L. Burch, PhD
State University of New York at Oswego, U.s.

David M. Buss, PhD
University of Texas at Austin, Us

Abraham P. Buunk, PhD
Academy of Groningen, holland

Tomás Cabeza de Baca, PhD
Academy of Arizona, United States

Peter Carruthers, DPhil
University of Maryland, United States

James Chisholm, PhD
The University of Western Australia, Australia

Jaime Chiliad. Deject, PhD
Western Oregon Academy, United States

Catherine A. Cottrell, PhD
New Higher of Florida, United States

Timothy Crippen, PhD
Academy of Mary Washington, Usa

Lee Cronk, PhD
Rutgers University, United states

Robert O. Deaner, PhD
Yard Valley Land University, United States

Jeff Elison, PhD
Adams State University, United States

Dennis Embry, PhD
PAXIS Institute, U.s.

Maryanne L. Fisher, PhD
Saint Mary's University, Canada

David A. Frederick, PhD
Chapman University, The states

Michael J. Frederick, PhD
University of Baltimore, U.s.

Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., PhD
State University of New York at Albany, The states

Justin R. Garcia, PhD
Indiana Academy, Us

Killian James Garvey, PhD
University of Rio Grande (Ohio), U.s.

Glenn Geher, PhD
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, United States

Herbert Gintis, PhD
Santa Fe Found, United states

Aaron T. Goetz, PhD
California Land University at Fullerton, United States

Peter Grey, PhD
Boston College, United states

Marissa A. Harrison, PhD
Pennsylvania State Academy at Harrisburg, U.s.

Patricia Hawley, PhD
Texas Tech University, The states

Leslie L. Heywood, PhD
Binghamton Academy, United States

John Hinshaw, PhD
Lebanon Valley College, United states of america

Susan M. Hughes, PhD
Albright College, United States

Scott James, PhD
University of Northward Carolina at Wilmington, United States

Daniel Nelson Jones, PhD
University of Texas at El Paso, U.s.

Farnaz Kaighobadi, PhD
Bronx Community College, Us

Timothy Ketelaar, PhD
New United mexican states State University, U.s.a.

Daniel J. Kruger, PhD
University of Michigan, The states

Barry Kuhle, PhD
University of Scranton, United States

Norman Li, PhD
Singapore Management University, Singapore

Richard Due south. Machalek, PhD
University of Wyoming, United states of america

Sean Massey, PhD
Binghamton Academy, Us

Tami One thousand. Meredith, PhD
Saint Mary'southward University, Canada

Daniel O'Brien, PhD
Northeastern University, United States

Rick O'Gorman, PhD
Academy of Essex, United Kingdom

Sally Olderbak, PhD
Ulm University, Federal republic of germany

Carin Perilloux, PhD
Southwestern University, United States

R. Nathan Pipitone, PhD
Adams State University, Us

Steven M. Platek, PhD
Georgia Gwinnett College, United States

Gad Saad, PhD
Concordia University, Canada

David P. Schmitt, PhD
Brunel Academy London, United Kingdom

Aaron Sell, PhD
Heidelberg Academy, United states

Todd G. Shackelford, PhD
Oakland Academy, United States

Daniel L. Smail, PhD
Harvard University, The states

David Livingstone Smith, PhD
Academy of New England, Usa

Gert Stulp, PhD
University of Groningen, holland

Nicholas Thompson, PhD
Clark Academy, U.s.a.

Joshua Tybur, PhD
Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands

T. Joel Wade, PhD
Bucknell University, United States

Gregory D. Webster, PhD
University of Florida, U.s.

David Sloan Wilson, PhD
Binghamton University, United states

David Zehr, PhD
Plymouth State Academy, United states of america

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Special Issues

  • Sports, Games, and Athletics in Evolutionary Perspective

    Special issue of APA's journal Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 2, April 2021. This special issue consists of viii manufactures that illustrate some of the many approaches that can exist taken when studying sports and games from an evolutionary perspective.

  • Beyond the Ingénue

    Special issue of the APA journal Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 14, No. 1, January 2020. A various range of articles show women as agile agents, work that questions by assumptions, and/or findings that pertain to the field limiting a more comprehensive view of women.

  • Development of Cognitive Mechanisms

    Special issue of the APA journal Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 12, No. three, July 2018, on human cerebral evolution. The articles encompass various adaptive problem domains (eastward.g., mating, foraging, grouping living) and topics (due east.g., conflict, interpersonal relationships, social learning, decision-making, run a risk cess).

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    Special consequence of the APA journal Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 11, No. ii, Apr 2017. The articles describe from many established theoretical models near the nature of long-term committed romantic relationships, including predictors of stability and commitment, and present a diverseness of available methodological tools, with samples from around the world.

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    Special consequence of the APA periodical Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Vol. viii, No. 4, October 2014. Articles hash out circumscribing the behavioral allowed organization; affect and cognition; implications for societal dynamics; and methodology and theory.

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