Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
1-2003
Abstract
A new theory integrating evolutionary and dynamical approaches is proposed. Following evolutionary models, psychological mechanisms are conceived as conditional decision rules designed to address fundamental problems confronted by human ancestors, with qualitatively different decision rules serving different problem domains and individual differences in decision rules as a function of adaptive and random variation. Following dynamical models, decision mechanisms within individuals are assumed to unfold in dynamic interplay with decision mechanisms of others in social networks. Decision mechanisms in different domains have different dynamic outcomes and lead to different sociospatial geometries. Three series of simulations examining trade-offs in cooperation and mating decisions illustrate how individual decision mechanisms and group dynamics mutually constrain one another, and offer insights about gene-culture interactions.
Keywords
individual decision mechanisms, dynamical evolutionary psychology, social networks, group dynamics, emergent social norms, gene-culture interactions
Discipline
Social Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
Psychological Review
Volume
110
Issue
1
First Page
3
Last Page
28
ISSN
0033-295X
Identifier
10.1037/0033-295X.110.1.3
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Citation
KENRICK, Douglas T., LI, Norman P., & BUTNER, Jonathan.(2003). Dynamical Evolutionary Psychology: Individual Decision Rules and Emergent Social Norms. Psychological Review, 110(1), 3-28.
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.110.1.3