Saturday, July 27, 2013

Psychology


Paper —– Using evolutionary psychology to develop your own prediction about communication.
This is a three page (double spaced, 1? margins, 12-point font) paper. Your task is to take one question on the evolutionary psychology of communication (see list below), and to generate your own prediction and idea for a study that would test your prediction. You should use a pre-existing theory or hypothesis to generate your prediction. I want to see YOUR predictions. You need at least 3 reference sources per paper.
Evolutionary Psychology Questions:
1. What explains the evolution of waist-to-hip ratio in women?
2. What role might language play in sexual selection?
3. Why do humans have such complex language?
4. Why are some accents sexy, and others not so much?
5. What explains the emergence of social hierarchies?
6. Is pathogen avoidance relevant for mate selection?
7. What sex differences exist in coalitional behavior, and why?
8. What features of communication enable cooperative social exchange, and why?

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