How to Use evolutionary psychology in a Sentence

evolutionary psychology

noun

• This is a finding that crops up time and time again within evolutionary psychology.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 13 Sep. 2019
• The book launched the field of evolutionary psychology and won Wilson the first of two Pulitzer Prizes.
  — Andrea Stone, Culture, 27 Dec. 2021
• Our research explores this question through the lens of evolutionary psychology.
  — Benjamin Kaveladze, The Conversation, 12 July 2022
• This is an idea rooted in part in evolutionary psychology, suggesting that getting the doldrums once served a vital purpose in pushing us to change course.
  — Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2021
• His work can be well understood as a bridge between evolutionary psychology and modern neuroscience.
  — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• His work can be understood as a bridge between evolutionary psychology and modern neuroscience.
  — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• Our aversion to rejection is deeply rooted in evolutionary psychology, Warner says.
  — Jillian Anthony, Vox, 5 Mar. 2025
• From an evolutionary psychology perspective, this diversity in adventure-seeking isn’t a bug or quirk.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• These findings jibe with the research of Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford.
  — Teddy Wayne, New York Times, 12 May 2018
• Even within evolutionary psychology, dual-mating theory has now been largely dismissed.
  — Brooke Scelza, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024
• Before shooting, the Wachowskis sent him to martial-arts training camp but also told him to read Baudrillard and books on evolutionary psychology and cybernetics.
  — Alex Pappademas, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2021
• That interpretation reflects a common error in evolutionary psychology, which is that observations based on present-day humans represents what happened in the past.
  — Jv Chamary, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2021
• The explanation begins not in the technology, but in evolutionary psychology.
  — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• Her theory draws on evolutionary psychology, which explains human behavior in the context of the adaptations that helped our forebears survive and pass on their genes in the ancestral environment.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2022
• But this is a just-so story without sufficient evidentiary support, despite its pervasiveness in disciplines like evolutionary psychology.
  — Sarah Lacy, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• Casting necessitates finding actors willing to put in months of training and do the research required by the filmmakers, specifically reading books on philosophy and evolutionary psychology.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
• Casting necessitates finding actors willing to put in months of training and do the research required by the filmmakers, specifically reading books on philosophy and evolutionary psychology.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
• He's generally argued that our closest relatives are smarter than people had previously believed, with major implications for evolutionary psychology.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2010
• In a similar vein, evolutionary psychology offers some of a compelling explanation for our attraction to dominant, alpha-style leaders—especially in times of uncertainty.
  — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
• Some scholars have criticized attempts to explain social behavior in terms of biology as overly reductionist, and many facets of evolutionary psychology, in particular, have faced skepticism in recent years.
  — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2021
• So while technological possibility is a core pillar of growth, so too is future literacy, evolutionary psychology, the prevailing culture and complex economics.
  — Aarron Spinley, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• But, said Gallup, who has lectured about Oliver in his evolutionary psychology course, there are other possiblities holding infinitely more complicated implications.
  — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• For fields like population genetics, evolutionary psychology and sociobiology, the gene is a unit of calculation in the exact sense formulated by Johannsen in 1909.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2013
• According to evolutionary psychology, our natural anxieties include social anxieties.
  — Robert Wright, WSJ, 28 July 2017
• Studies in evolutionary psychology suggest that people are more likely to support dominant, masculine-looking leaders during times of war or crisis, while preferring more collaborative, empathetic leaders during peace and stability.
  — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
• Social olfactory research largely stems from evolutionary psychology, specifically the work of Swiss biologist Claus Wedekind in 1995.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
• His 2017 book Why Buddhism Is True describes his engagement with Buddhism as a long personal journey predating the book itself, rooted in his earlier work on evolutionary psychology.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 June 2026
• Mark van Vugt is professor of evolutionary psychology, work and organizational psychology and director of the Amsterdam Leadership Lab at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
  — Xiaotian Sheng, Harvard Business Review, 13 May 2026
• The framework comes from a 2022 study of 2,000 adults commissioned by Fisherman’s Friend and analyzed by Robin Dunbar, emeritus professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford.
  — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2026