To know is not to love: Cognitive and affective barriers toward the adoption of evolutionary theory

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 681-686

  Cabeza de Baca, Tomás ^a   Jordan, Ashley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; Life history theory; Resistances toward evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863781551     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.05.015     Document Type: Article

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