System 1 vs. System 2 Thinking by Sergio Da Silva

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Learning to be Human: teaching, culture and human cognitive evolution by Richard Bailey

“…This paper acknowledges the importance of adopting an evolutionary perspective in attempting to understand human cognition and development, but it suggests that the model adopted by many evolutionary psychologists is incomplete. Learning, teaching and cultural transmission play vital roles in the distinctive human life pattern, but have received inadequate attention in the literature. …”
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The Influence of the Evolutionary Past on the Mind: An Analysis of the Preference for Landscapes in the Human Species by Joelson M. B. Moura, Joelson M. B. Moura, Washington S. Ferreira Júnior, Taline C. Silva, Ulysses P. Albuquerque

“…According to some evolutionary psychologists, landscapes preferences in the human species are influenced by their evolutionary past. …”
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Testing the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis on Polish kings and dukes by Sorokowski Piotr, Kowal Marta, Badyna Piotr, Niemczyk Agnieszka, Karwowski Maciej, Kozieł Sławomir

“…The Trivers-Willard Hypothesis (TWH), frequently investigated by evolutionary psychologists, states that human beings may have evolved to produce a greater number of sons when having a high status, and a greater number of daughters when having a low status. …”
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Indirect Peer Aggression in Adolescence and Reproductive Behavior by Daniel D. White, Andrew C. Gallup, Gordon G. Gallup

“…Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that indirect aggression during adolescence is a strategy to compete with same-sex peer rivals for resources, status, and mating opportunities. …”
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Predicting Preferences for Sex Acts: Which Traits Matter Most, and Why? by Ashley Peterson, Glenn Geher, Scott Barry Kaufman

“…Several dispositional traits have been examined in mating contexts by evolutionary psychologists. Such traits include life history strategy, sociosexuality, and the Big Five. …”
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The Interaction of Science and Philosophy in the Present Age Two Dutch Philosophers: Herman Philipse and Hans Achterhuis by Hans Dassen

“…For his subject, Hans Achterhuis “… primarily cites biologists, ethologists and evolutionary psychologists with a philosophical interest” because “they presently have more to offer [him] than do his immediate colleagues”. …”
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Enjoying art: an evolutionary perspective on the esthetic experience from emotion elicitors by Fabrizio Serrao, Alice Chirico, Alessandro Gabbiadini, Alberto Gallace, Andrea Gaggioli, Andrea Gaggioli

“…The ubiquity of human art prompted evolutionary psychologists to explore its origins as a potential adaptation to the environment. …”
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Tradition and invention: the bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution by Jagiello, R, Heyes, C, Whitehouse, H

“…We also set out a novel ‘cultural action framework’ bringing to light aspects of social learning that have been relatively neglected by behavioural ecologists and evolutionary psychologists and establishing a roadmap for future research on this topic. …”

The house as a mind [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Clive Gamble

“…Palaeoanthropologists and evolutionary psychologists have successfully used the increasing size of the brain during human evolution to infer cognitive and social outcomes. …”
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'The biological basis of cultural transmission' by Shea, N

“…Chomsky’s intellectual descendants have taken his approach to language as a paradigm, applying it to every facet of perception and cognition, proceeding via Fodor’s modularity of mind to the massive modularity hypothesis championed by evolutionary psychologists. When a regime is overextended, revolution is in order. …”

Phenomenology and predisposing factors of morbid jealousy in a psychiatric outdoor: a cross-sectional, descriptive study by Satyajeet Kumar Singh, Samrat Singh Bhandari, Pramod Kumar Singh

“…Background: Jealousy in a sexual relation has some advantage that it ensures propagation of one’s own gene as put by evolutionary psychologists. However, if this belief is based on unfounded evidence it may impair the relationship between partners and may be extremely distressful. …”
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Evolutionary explanations and the debunking of moral beliefs by Cofnas, N

“…The cultural evolution of morality is not tightly constrained by our biological endowment in the way some philosophers and evolutionary psychologists believe.</p> <p><b>2. Power in Cultural Evolution and the Spread of Prosocial Norms</b></p> <p>According to cultural evolutionary theory in the tradition of Boyd and Richerson, cultural evolution is driven by individuals' learning biases, natural selection, and random forces. …”