Steven P. Gilbert

Examined Lives: Gossip (Session 49)

Gossip, often seen as trivial or negative, may have played a critical role in human survival and social cohesion.

Examined Lives: Live Fast, Die Young: Slow vs Fast Life History Strategies (Session 48)

In evolutionary psychology, life history strategies refer to the ways in which organisms allocate resources to growth, reproduction, and survival.

Examined Lives: Shame & Guilt (Session 43)

We will discuss how evolutionary psychology can help us better understand two common and closely related emotions: shame and guilt.

Examined Lives: Self-Esteem (Session 41)

What can evolutionary science bring to bear on the questions of what self-esteem is and what functions it performs?

Examined Lives: Lonelineness (Session 46)

In this session, Steve Gilbert will lead us in a discussion about "loneliness" and what evolutionary thinking can tell us about it in the modern day.

Examined Lives: Disgust (Session 44)

The initial function of disgust was to avoid exposure to pathogens, but evolved to also regulate our sexual activity, morality and social interactions

Examined Lives: Judgment under Uncertainty (Session 40)

How do how humans make decisions under uncertainty?

Examined Lives: War (Session 32)

Each month in Examined Lives we have lively discussions about cutting-edge developments in—and applications of—evolutionary thinking.

Examined Lives: Misunderstandings & Misconceptions about Evolutionary Psychology (Session 39)

Misunderstandings & Misconceptions about Evolutionary Psychology (Session 40)

Examined Lives: The Execution Hypothesis and the Evolution of Morality (Session 31)

Examined Lives: The Grandmother Hypothesis (Session 38)

The grandmother hypothesis is an attempt to explain the origins of reproductive senescence in Homo sapiens.

Examined Lives: Adaptive Fictions (Session 34)

Examined Lives: Positive Evolutionary Psychology (Session 30)

In our next Examined Lives on Positive Evolutionary Psychology we will explore what evolutionary psychology has to tell us about happiness.