evolutionary psychology

English

Noun

evolutionary psychology (uncountable)

1. (psychology, evolutionary theory) A theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection.
   • 2015 June 9, Rollo Tomassi, “In Defense of Evo-Psych”, in The Rational Male‎^[1]:

     You’ll have to forgive this exceptionally long post here, but for many critics of (and in) the manosphere of evolutionary psychology the following post articulates things better than I could.

Synonyms

• evo-psych (abbreviation)

Translations

approach to psychology

• Czech: evoluční psychologie f
• Georgian: ევოლუციური ფსიქოლოგია (evoluciuri psikologia)
• Portuguese: psicologia evolutiva f, psicologia evolucionária f