Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Development

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 64-81

  Bjorklund, David F ^a   Pellegrini, Anthony D ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance relationships serving to reduce antagonism within groups; Evolutionary developmental psychology; Evolutionary perspectives on social development; Evolutionary psychologists, using natural selection to explain complex psychological functioning; Evolutionary psychology and evolutionary developmental psychology; Evolutionary psychology, mainstream respectability among academic psychologists; Infants, and first signs of understanding others as intentional agents, at 9 months of age through shared attention; Play, a deferred adaptation of both sexes how boys and girls play; Prosocial behavior more difficult to explain from evolutionary perspective; Social cognition developing a theory of mind

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EID: 84886350613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390933.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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