Unit 2 of Personality Psychology - Evolution and Sex Differences
Discusses misconceptions about evolution and personality, natural selection and personality, adaptive problems, need to belong, social anxiety and self esteem, helping and altruism, inclusive fitness, universal emotions and evidence that supports this, reproductive value influences on behavior. Evolution part 2 - individual differences, life history theory, trait contingency, sex differences, aggression, sexual selection, jealousy, mate preferences, big 5 relations to evolution. Sex and gender differences lecture - How can we explain gender roles?Socialization theories, social learning, social role, task specialization, hormonal theories, evolutionary theory, and intrasexual selection. Cohen's d to measure effect size in sex difference research.
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