TY - BOOK ID - 135003788 TI - The Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology and behavioral endocrinology AU - Welling, Lisa L. M. AU - Shackelford, Todd Kennedy PY - 2019 SN - 9780190649753 9780190649739 0190649755 PB - New York : Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Evolutionary psychology KW - Human behavior KW - Endocrine aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135003788 AB - Although most will be at least somewhat familiar with the biological role hormones play during puberty and pregnancy, many are likely unaware that hormones - chemical messengers that are secreted by cells and that travel through the body to reach specialized receptors - impact multiple aspects of our lives from conception onward. Behavioral endocrinology and evolutionary psychology are complementary disciplines wherein scholars seek to understand human behavior. Evolutionary psychologists contend that human psychology and behavior are functional outcomes of natural and sexual selection pressures encountered in the ancestral environment. In this view, selection pressures designed adaptations of the mind and body, which produce behavior through a variety of psychological, neurological, and physiological mechanisms. ER -