BRUCE J. ELLIS
Professor of Psychology and Anthropology
at University of Utah, Salt Lake
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Dr. Bruce J. Ellis is a distinguished Professor of Psychology and Anthropology at the University of Utah, with an interdisciplinary focus blending evolutionary biology and developmental science. His pioneering research explores social and cognitive adaptations to stress, particularly the ways early adversity fosters the development of adaptive survival and reproductive strategies under challenging conditions.
A central theme of Dr. Ellis’ work is life history theory, which he utilizes to model how stress influences adaptation and learning processes. His theoretical contributions include the Biological Sensitivity to Context theory and the Adaptive Calibration Model. These frameworks examine how human biobehavioral systems adapt to specific familial and ecological contexts. For his significant contributions, Dr. Ellis received the 2019 Distinguished Contributions to Interdisciplinary Understanding of Child Development Award from the Society for Research in Child Development.
Dr. Ellis’ academic journey began with a B.S. in Social Science from California Polytechnic, where he was mentored by Dr. Patrick McKim. He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, under the guidance of Drs. David Buss and Neil Malamuth. Following this, he completed a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship in Developmental Psychopathology at Vanderbilt University.
His career has included influential roles, such as Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Network on Adaptations to Childhood Stress and the John & Doris Norton Endowed Chair in Fathers, Parenting, and Families at the University of Arizona. Over the years, he has led numerous groundbreaking research projects funded by esteemed organizations, including the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and James S. McDonnell Foundation. His work spans diverse topics such as stress-adapted skills, the impact of fathers on adolescent decision-making, and the influence of harsh parental behavior on adolescent well-being.
Dr. Ellis has collaborated extensively with institutions worldwide, including Utrecht University and Radboud University, supported by grants like the Netherlands Scientific Organization Visitor's Travel Grant. His innovative studies, such as those on adaptive stress response patterns and life history strategy, have resulted in impactful insights on how early-life environments shape human development.
Notable research grants led by Dr. Ellis include projects on the adaptive calibration of stress responsivity, the effects of father absence on pubertal timing, and adaptations to childhood adversity. His work emphasizes a strength-based approach to adversity, recognizing hidden talents in youth and promoting educational practices that leverage stress-adapted skills.
In addition to his primary research roles, Dr. Ellis has served as a consultant on significant initiatives, including studies on mental health in children and environmental factors in breast cancer. His collaborations with organizations like the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences underscore his commitment to interdisciplinary research with real-world applications.
Through his remarkable academic and research endeavors, Dr. Bruce J. Ellis continues to make profound contributions to understanding human adaptation and resilience in the face of stress and adversity.
Skills & Expertise
Stress Analysis
Stress Responses and Diseases
Grant Acquisition
Research Collaboration
Evolutionary modeling
Developmental psychology
Life history theory
Child development research
Stress-responsivity modeling
Developmental Neurobiology
Adolescent Development
Physiological Stress
Research Interests
Parenting style
Social Psychology
Research Methods
Health Psychology
Cognition
Life history strategy
Developmental psychology
Childhood adversity
Stress resilience
Family dynamics
Biobehavioral adaptation
Fatherhood
Adolescent behavior
Educational practices
Health outcomes
Human adaptation
Learning processes
Childhood stress
Resilience strategies
Adaptive individual differences
Stress-health relationships
Developmental psychobiology
Neurobiological susceptibility to environmental influence
Evolutionary psychology
Cognitive adaptations to stress
Evolutionary-Developmental Psychology
Biosocial Development
Adolescent Health
Applied Statistical Analysis
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💼 Experience
Professor of Psychology and Anthropology
University of Utah, Salt Lake
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March 2016 -
Present
Director
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
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March 2016 -
March 2019
- Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Network on Adaptations to Childhood Stress
Professor
University of Arizona (UA)
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March 2004 -
March 2016
- Professor and John & Doris Norton Endowed Chair in Fathers, Parenting, and Families, Division of Family Studies and Human Development, Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Arizona.
Senior Lecturer
University of Canterbury (UC)
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March 1999 -
March 2004
- 2002- Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, 2004 New Zealand 1999- Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, New 2001 Zealand
Research Associate
Vanderbilt University (VU), Nashville
·
March 1996 -
March 1999
Visiting Assistant Professor
Central Michigan University (CMU), Michigan
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March 1995 -
March 1996
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant
University of Michigan
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March 1991 -
March 1995
🎓 Education
Vanderbilt University (VU), Nashville
Post Doctorate in
NIMH Developmental Psychopathology Training Program
· 1999
University of Michigan
Ph.D. in
Psychology
· 1995
California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo
B.S. in
Social Science
· 1987
🚀 Projects
Stress-Adapted Skills
Agency Name: Jacobs Foundation. University of Utah ||
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
Funded: Yes ||
Amount: $20,100
2020- Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Willem Frankenhuis, Radboud University).
2021 Stress-Adapted Skills. Jacobs Foundation. University of Utah subcontract:
$20,100. Dates: Jan 1, 2020—Dec. 31, 2021.
🏆 Awards & Achievements (1)
🏆 Distinguished Contributions to Interdisciplinary Understanding of Child Development Award
Awarded by: Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) || Year:
2019
Description
Professional Memberships (1)
University of Utah, Salt Lake
Member: Faculty Advisory Council, || Join dt:
2023 - Present
Country: United States
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📚 Publications (44)
Journal: American Psychologist
• September 2022
Narvaez et al. (2022), in their article “Evolving Evolutionary Psychology,” argue that mainstream evolutionary psychology is based on misguided neo-Darwinian adaptationist thinking and an antiquated c...
Evolutionary-Developmental Psychology
Developmental Systems Theory
Life History Theory
Neo-Darwinian Adaptationism
Information-Processing Mechanisms
Mind-as-Computer Framework
Evolutionary Psychology
Developmental Theory
Adaptationist Perspective
Domain-Specific Mechanisms
Psychological Metatheory
Evolutionary Explication
Developmentally Informed Theory
Evolved Cognitive Mechanisms
Evolutionary Framework
Journal: The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Parenting Book
• September 2021
This chapter emphasizes the significance of parental behavior and household dynamics in shaping children's development and behavior. It underscores the advantages of adopting an evolutionary-developme...
Parental Behavior
Household Dynamics
Evolutionary-Developmental Model
Darwinian Principles
Parenting
Natural Selection
Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
Developmentalists
Child Development
Proximate-Level Research
Survival
Reproduction
Ecological Circumstances
Parenting Strategies
Methodological Approaches
Developmental Psychology
Social Psychology
Psychology
Journal: Perspectives on Psychological Science
• September 2021
We review the three prevailing approaches—specificity, cumulative risk, and dimensional models—to conceptualizing the developmental consequences of early-life adversity and address fundamental problem...
Adversity
Early-Life Stress
Threat
Deprivation
Harshness
Unpredictability
Experience-Driven Plasticity
Dimensional Models
Developmental Consequences
Neurodevelopmental Principles
Evolutionary-Developmental Framework
Specificity Models
Cumulative Risk Models
Adaptive Responses
Maladaptive Responses
Brain Development
Journal: Developmental Psychology
• September 2008
Girls growing up in homes without their biological fathers tend to go through puberty earlier than their peers. Whereas evolutionary theories of socialization propose that this relation is causal, it...
Evolutionary Psychology
Behavior Genetics
Father Absence
Father-Child Relations
Divorce
Puberty
Early Menarche
Paternal Dysfunction
Family Disruption
Residential Separation
Sibling Comparison Design
Genetic and Environmental Control
Early Childhood Exposure
Developmental Psychology
Familial Factors
Biological Disruption
Journal: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• October 2024
Guided by concepts from life history (LH) theory, a large human research literature has tested the hypothesis that exposures to extrinsic mortality (EM) promote the development of faster LH strategies...
Age at First Birth
Age at Menarche
Current-Future Tradeoff
Energetics
Evolutionary Demography
Extrinsic Mortality
Fertility
Life History Strategy
Life History Theory
Puberty
Quality-Quantity Tradeoff
Two-Tiered Model
Environmental Influence
Ambient Cues
Energetic Stress
Small-Scale Societies
Developmental Processes
External Cues
Accelerated Reproduction
Countervailing Effects
Journal: Child Development
• October 2022
Adversity-exposed youth tend to score lower on cognitive tests. However, the hidden talents approach proposes some abilities are enhanced by adversity, especially under ecologically relevant condition...
Hidden Talents
Cognitive Performance
Adversity-Exposed Youth
Abstract Stimuli
Ecological Stimuli
Attention Shifting
Working Memory Updating
Environmental Unpredictability
Violence
Poverty
Developmental Science
Adversity × Task Interactions
Cognitive Abilities
Stress-Adapted Skills
Resilience
Journal: Development and Psychopathology
• October 2021
Differential susceptibility theory stipulates that individuals vary in their susceptibility to environmental effects, often implying that the same individuals differ in the same way in their susceptib...
Differential Susceptibility
Harshness
Life-History Theory
Unpredictability
Environmental Effects
Parenting
Psychological Well-being
Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Early-Life Harshness
Environmental Unpredictability
NICHD Study
Parental Susceptibility
Developmental Outcomes
Sexual Partners
Individual Differences
Journal: Evolution and Human Behavior
• November 2020
Over the past decade, there is increasing interest in the ways in which environmental unpredictability shapes human life history development. However, progress is hindered by two theoretical ambiguiti...
Environmental Unpredictability
Statistical Learning
Life History Development
Ancestral Cues
Predictive Mechanisms
Evolutionary History
Conceptual Definitions
Proximate Mechanisms
Measurement Approaches
Human Development
Prediction Errors
Theoretical Ambiguities
Evolutionary Perspectives
Life History Strategies
Adaptive Responses
Journal: Appetite
• November 2020
A growing body of research indicates that one's early life experiences may play an important role in regulating patterns of energy intake in adulthood. In particular, adults who grew up under conditio...
Life History Theory
Childhood Socioeconomic Status
Unpredictability
Food Insecurity
Early-Life Stress
Developmental Psychology
Eating Behavior
Obesity
Environmental Predictability
Energy Intake
Financial Needs
Environmental Safety
Energy Regulation
Predictive Mechanisms
Childhood Development
Socioeconomic Environment
Journal: Psychological Bulletin
• November 2004
Life history theory provides a metatheoretical framework for the study of pubertal timing from an evolutionary-developmental perspective. The current article reviews 5 middle-level theories-energetics...
Timing Of Pubertal Maturation
Life History Theory
Evolutionary-Developmental Perspective
Pubertal Timing
Environmental Influences
Energetics Theory
Stress-Suppression Theory
Psychosocial Acceleration Theory
Paternal Investment Theory
Child Development Theory
Ecological Conditions
Reproductive Variables
Stress Reactivity
Psychosocial Stress
Pubertal Development
Multidisciplinary Inquiry
Reproductive Outcomes
Developmental Perspective
Environmental Adaptation
Masturbation
Sexual Maturation
Sexual Attraction
Sexual Initiation
Reproductive
Maturity
Adolescent Sexuality
Sexual Reproduction
Sexual Health
Libido (Sexual Drive)
Reproductive Maturity
Hormonal Changes
Growth Spurt
Menarche
Spermarche
Testosterone
Estrogen
Gonadal Maturation
Androgens
Ovulation
Genital Development
Psychosexual Development
Fantasy
Journal: Development and Psychopathology
• May 2022
Two extant frameworks – the harshness-unpredictability model and the threat-deprivation model – attempt to explain which dimensions of adversity have distinct influences on development. These models a...
Adversity Dimensions
Brain Plasticity
Developmental Plasticity
Early Adversity
Life History Theory
Harshness-Unpredictability Model
Threat-Deprivation Model
Neural Mechanisms
Environmental Experience
Environmental Unpredictability
Developmental Adaptation
Proximal Cues
Distal Cues
Learning Directedness
Adaptive Responses
Maladaptive Responses
Ecological Contexts
Journal: Development and Psychopathology
• May 2022
The special issue titled "Dimensions of Early Experience and Adaptive and Maladaptive Development" likely examines how various early-life experiences shape developmental outcomes, both positive and ne...
Early Experience
Adaptive Development
Maladaptive Development
Developmental Psychopathology
Emotional Regulation
Cognitive Functions
Brain Development
Trauma
Neglect
Stress
Resilience
Sensitive Periods
Secure Attachment
Nurturing Caregiving
Enriched Environments
Early Intervention
Genetic Factors
Temperamental Factors
Environmental Factors
Journal: Developmental Psychology
• May 2012
[Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 48(3) of Developmental Psychology (see record 2011-21985-001). This article contained a production-related error. In the fourth para...
Harsh Parenting
Unpredictable Environment
Sexual Risk Taking
Life History
Maternal Depression
Early Childhood
Parenting Strategies
Reproductive Development
Environmental Variation
Maternal Sensitivity
Accelerated Life-History Strategy
Evolutionary Analysis
Income-To-Needs Ratio
Residential Changes
Paternal Transitions
Parental Job Changes
Structural Equation Modeling
Does Father Absence Place Daughters at Special Risk for Early Sexual Activity and Teenage Pregnancy?
Journal: Child Development
• May 2003
The impact of father absence on early sexual activity and teenage pregnancy was investigated in longitudinal studies in the United States (N= 242) and New Zealand (N= 520), in which community samples...
Father Absence
Early Sexual Activity
Teenage Pregnancy
Longitudinal Studies
Familial Disadvantages
Ecological Disadvantages
Personal Disadvantages
Behavioral Problems
Mental Health
Academic Achievement
Life-Course Adversity
Evolutionary Psychology
Social Learning
Behavior Genetic Models
Risk Factors
Adolescent Development
Parenting Influence
Sexual Behavior
Developmental Outcomes
Journal: Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior 978-0-12-800951-2
• March 2016
Evolution is the process in which traits such as physiological stress response systems (SRSs) are shaped by natural selection. A full understanding of any trait requires knowing its evolutionary histo...
Evolutionary Psychology
Stress Response System (SRS)
Natural Selection
Physiological Stress Response
Evolutionary History
Selective Advantage
Stress-Related Mechanisms
Environmental Information Processing
Risk-Taking Behavior
Sexual Behavior
Trait Evolution
Functional Significance
Adaptive Trade-Offs
Stress Mechanisms
Evolutionary Development
Journal: Developmental Psychology
• March 2012
This article proposes an evolutionary model of risky behavior in adolescence and contrasts it with the prevailing developmental psychopathology model. The evolutionary model contends that understandin...
Risky Adolescent Behavior
Evolutionary Model
Developmental Psychopathology
Social Status
Reproductive Trajectories
Adaptive Functions
Bullying
Environmental Conditions
Sex Differences
Evolved Psychology
Dysregulated Behavior
Age-Segregated Social Groupings
High-Risk Youth
Intervention Design
Evolutionary Perspective
Adaptive Calibration
Adolescent Goals
Evolutionary Psychology
Behavioral Interventions
Evolution and development
Environmental mismatch
Intervention
Journal: Development and Psychopathology
• March 2005
In two studies comprising 249 children and their families, the authors utilized secondary, exploratory data analyses to examine Boyce and Ellis' (this issue) evolutionary–developmental theory of biolo...
Biological Sensitivity To Context
Evolutionary-Developmental Theory
Stress Reactivity
Environmental Influence
Childhood Stress
Supportive Environments
Autonomic Reactivity
Adrenocortical Reactivity
Familial Stress
Early Childhood Exposure
Cardiovascular Reactivity
Laboratory Challenges
Psychopathology
Developmental Theory
Evolutionary Psychology
Curvilinear Relations
Journal: The Journal of Sex Research
• March 1990
The nature and frequency of men's and women's sexual fantasies were investigated by surveying 307 students (182 females, 125 males) at a California state university or junior college via a paper‐and‐p...
Sexual Fantasy
Sex Differences
Evolutionary Psychology
Visual Imagery
Touching
Contextualization
Personalization
Emotion
Partner Variety
Partner Response
Fantasizer Response
Inward Focus
Outward Focus
Pornography
Romance Fiction
Human Sexuality
Journal: Clinical Psychology Review
• June 2021
Despite evidence supporting a role for oxytocin (OT) in regulating social behavior, surprisingly little is known about how this neuropeptide is calibrated during development. We systematically reviewe...
Oxytocin
Arginine Vasopressin
Developmental Programming
Early-Life Stress
Family Stress
Adaptive Calibration Model
Neuropeptide Regulation
Endogenous Oxytocin
OXTR Methylation (OXTRm)
Intranasal Oxytocin
Biobehavioral Systems
Childhood Adversity
Social Behavior
Medical Model
Stress Adaptation
Intervention Strategies
Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
• June 2011
This paper presents the Adaptive Calibration Model (ACM), an evolutionary–developmental theory of individual differences in the functioning of the stress response system. The stress response system ha...
Adaptation
Gender
Sex differences
Stress
Adaptive Calibration Model (ACM)
Stress Response System
Biological Sensitivity to Context (BSC)
Life History Theory
Allostasis
Cortisol
Developmental Switch Point
Evolution
Gender Differences
Life History Strategies
Plasticity
Reactivity
Stress Responsivity
Defensive Behaviors
Competitive Risk-Taking
Attachment
Affiliation
Reproductive Functioning
Environmental Inputs
Prototypical Responsivity Patterns
Fitness-Relevant Areas
Individual Differences
Journal: Current Directions in Psychological Science
• June 2008
Conventional views suggest that exaggerated biological reactivity to stress is a harmful vestige of an evolutionary past in which threats to survival were more prevalent and severe. Recent evidence, h...
Stress Reactivity
Biological Sensitivity to Context
Evolutionary Psychology
Developmental Psychobiology
High Reactivity
Risk-Augmenting Effects
Risk-Protective Effects
Developmental Plasticity
Stress-Response Systems
Curvilinear Relation
Early Adversity
Health Effects
Stress-Reactive Profiles
Environmental Sensitivity
Adaptive Patterning
Journal: Developmental Review
• June 2006
Biological reactivity to psychological stressors comprises a complex, integrated system of central neural and peripheral neuroendocrine responses designed to prepare the organism for challenge or thre...
Biological Reactivity
Psychological Stressors
Neural Responses
Neuroendocrine Responses
Developmental Experience
Heritable Variation
Response Dynamics
Phenotypic Plasticity
Genetic Polymorphisms
Niche Specialization
Natural Selection
Stress-Response Systems
Gene-Environment Integration
Adaptive Variation
Alternative Phenotypes
Journal: Development and Psychopathology
• June 2005
Biological reactivity to psychological stressors comprises a complex, integrated, and highly conserved repertoire of central neural and peripheral neuroendocrine responses designed to prepare the orga...
Biological Sensitivity to Context
Evolutionary-Developmental Theory
Stress Reactivity
Psychological Stressors
Central Neural Responses
Neuroendocrine Responses
Developmental Experience
Early Adversity
Stress-Reactive Profiles
Risk-Augmenting Effects
Risk-Protective Effects
Context-Dependent Adaptation
Conditional Adaptations
Psychobiological Mechanisms
Childhood Environments
Developmental Plasticity
Curvilinear Relation
Highly Stressful Environments
Highly Protected Environments
Journal: Developmental Science
• July 2020
Although growing up in stressful conditions can undermine mental abilities, people in harsh environments may develop intact, or even enhanced, social and cognitive abilities for solving problems in hi...
Hidden Talents
Social Dominance
Memory Performance
Reasoning Performance
Violence Exposure
Adversity
Cognitive Abilities
Transitive Inference
Developmental Adaptation
Environmental Harshness
Learning and Memory
Social Information
Violence-Relevant Tasks
Cognitive Resilience
Context-Specific Abilities
Journal: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
• July 2020
It is well established that people living in adverse conditions tend to score lower on a variety of social and cognitive tests. However, recent research shows that people may also develop ‘hidden tale...
Hidden Talents Approach
Adversity
Stress
Adaptation
Cognitive Abilities
Formal Modeling
Development
Methodological Challenges
Theoretical Challenges
Research Program
Science Incentives
Testing Assumptions
Refining Ideas
Journal: Development and Psychopathology
• July 2019
We conducted signal detection analyses to test for curvilinear, U-shaped relations between early experiences of adversity and heightened physiological responses to challenge, as proposed by biological...
Biological Sensitivity to Context
Stress Responsivity
U-Shaped Relation
Early Adversity
Signal Detection Analysis
Autonomic Nervous System
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis
Restrictive Parenting
Family Stress
Economic Condition
Stress Reactivity
Adaptive Calibration Model
Cortisol Reactivity
Environmental Sensitivity
Journal: Perspectives on Psychological Science
• July 2017
How does repeated or chronic childhood adversity shape social and cognitive abilities? According to the prevailing deficit model, children from high-stress backgrounds are at risk for impairments in l...
Adaptation
Animal Behavior
Cognitive Abilities
Developmental Plasticity
Early-Life Stress
Evolutionary-Developmental Psychology
Intervention
Life History Theory
Phenotypic Plasticity
Resilience
Specialization Hypothesis
Sensitization Hypothesis
Childhood Adversity
Learning
Memory
Problem-Solving
Decision-Making
Journal: Child Development
• January 2003
Drawing on Belsky, Steinberg, and Draper's evolutionary theory of the development of reproductive strategies, we tested a model of individual differences in girls' pubertal timing. This model posits t...
Maternal Depression
Stepfather Presence
Marital Stress
Family Stress
Pubertal Timing
Biological Father Absence
Reproductive Strategies
Psychopathology
Evolutionary Theory
Dyadic Stress
Adolescent Girls
Early Pubertal Maturation
Family Relationships
Mood Disorders
Romantic Partner
Journal: Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes Book
• January 2003
Perhaps more ink has been devoted to the issue of self-esteem – loosely, the degree to which
we evaluate ourselves positively or negatively – than to any other single topic in psychology. Self-esteem...
Self-Esteem
Evolutionary Psychology
Self-Evaluation
Psychological Well-being
Social Importance
Perceived Abilities
Interpersonal Relations
Physical Attractiveness
Perceived Control
Self-Esteem Maintenance
Self-Esteem Enhancement
Mental Health Problems
Psychological Theory
Human Motivation
Competence
Evolutionary Perspectives
Journal: Psychological Inquiry
• January 2000
Are the methods and strategies that evolutionary psychologists use to generate and test hypotheses scientifically defensible? This target article addresses this question by reviewing principles of phi...
Evolutionary Psychology
Lakatosian Philosophy of Science
Falsifiability
Scientific Explanation
Evolutionary Models
Family Violence
Sexual Jealousy
Male Parental Investment
Competing Theories
Hypothesis Testing
Scientific Methodology
Progressivity
Popperian View
Evolutionary Framework
Novel Predictions
Research Program
Journal: Development and Psychopathology
• February 2022
Although early-life adversity can undermine healthy development, children growing up in harsh environments may develop intact, or even enhanced, skills for solving problems in high-adversity contexts...
Adaptive Intelligence
Hidden Talents
Developmental Adaptation to Stress
Stress-Adapted Skills
Resilience
Educational Interventions
Neuroplasticity
Harsh Environments
Childhood Adversity
Brain Development
Juvenile Justice
High-Adversity Contexts
Interdisciplinary Framework
Human Development
Strength-Based Perspective
Journal: Development and Psychopathology
• February 2014
How do exposures to stress affect biobehavioral development and, through it, psychiatric and biomedical disorder? In the health sciences, the allostatic load model provides a widely accepted answer to...
Adaptation
Allostatic Load Model (ALM)
Adaptive Calibration Model (ACM)
Biological Embedding
Developmental Plasticity
Developmental Psychopathology
Evolutionary-Developmental Psychology
Life History Theory
Stress Dysregulation
Stress Response System
Toxic Stress
Biobehavioral Development
Psychiatric Disorders
Biomedical Disorders
Stress-Health Relations
Biological Fitness Trade-Offs
Environmental Stress
Resource Allocation
Regulatory Parameters
Developmental Pathways
Journal: Development and Psychopathology
• February 2011
Two extant evolutionary models, biological sensitivity to context theory (BSCT) and differential susceptibility theory (DST), converge on the hypothesis that some individuals are more susceptible than...
Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental Theory
Biological Sensitivity to Context Theory (BSCT)
Differential Susceptibility Theory (DST)
Environmental Conditions
Personal Vulnerability
Environmental Risk
Neurobiological Susceptibility
Adaptation
Development
Health
Neurogenomic Mechanisms
Endophenotypic Mechanisms
Evolutionary Bases
Methodological Considerations
Statistical Considerations
Ecological Variation
Cultural Variation
Racial-Ethnic Variation
Designing Social Programs
Child Development
Adult Development
Journal: Human Nature
• February 2009
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data were used to test predictions from life history theory. We hypothesized that (1) in young adulthood an emerging life history strategy would ex...
Life History Theory
Adolescent Health
Environmental Harshness
Environmental Unpredictability
Life History Strategies
Health
Relationship Stability
Economic Success
Life History Traits
Young Adulthood
Adolescent Development
Longitudinal Effects
Stability Across Development
Evolutionary Psychology
Journal: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• February 1999
In an 8-year prospective study of 173 girls and their families, the authors tested predictions from J. Belsky, L. Steinberg, and P. Draper's (1991) evolutionary model of individual differences in pube...
Pubertal Timing
Early Family Relationships
Evolutionary Model
Father Presence
Parental Investment
Father-Daughter Relationship
Mother-Daughter Relationship
Parental Supportiveness
Coercive Relationships
Reproductive Development
Family Environment
Child Care
Harmonious Relationships
Parental Dyad
Longitudinal Study
Journal: Child Development
• December 2007
Life history theorists have proposed that humans have evolved to be sensitive to specific features of early childhood environments and that exposure to different environments biases children toward de...
Family Environments
Adrenarche
Sexual Maturation
Life History Model
Pubertal Timing
Parental Investment
Marital Conflict
Socioeconomic Status
Parental Supportiveness
Adrenal Hormones
Secondary Sexual Characteristics
Menarche
Evolutionary Psychology
Early Childhood Environments
Reproductive Strategies
Journal: Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development
• December 2004
Until now, evolutionary psychologists have focused largely on understanding adult behavior, giving little sustained attention to childhood. Developmental psychologists, for their part, have been wary...
Evolutionary Psychology
Child Development
Gene-Environment Interactions
Cognitive Development
Social Development
Personality Development
Developmental Mechanisms
Parent-Child Relationships
Aggression
Puberty
Infant Perception
Infant Cognition
Memory
Language Development
Adaptation to Adult Life
Journal: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
• August 2024
Previous research has demonstrated an inverse relation between subjective social class (SSC) and performance on emotion recognition tasks. Study 1 (N = 418) involved a preregistered replication of thi...
Social Class
Emotion Recognition
Social Cognition
Sex Differences
Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task
Cambridge Mindreading Face-Voice Battery
Incidental Face Memory
Interaction Effects
Subjective Social Class (SSC)
Emotion Recognition Abilities
Male-Driven Effect
Exploratory Analyses
Preregistered Studies
Social Cognitive Performance
Sex-Class Interaction
Journal: Annual Review of Psychology
• August 2018
The assumption that early stress leads to dysregulation and impairment is widespread in developmental science and informs prevailing models (e.g., toxic stress). An alternative evolutionary–developmen...
Developmental Plasticity
Developmental Programming
Differential Susceptibility
Evolution
Life History Theory
Puberty
Childhood Stress
Stress Response Systems
Adaptive Calibration Model
Conditional Adaptation
Physiological Stress Response
Neuroendocrine Processes
Environmental Susceptibility
Person-Environment Interactions
Stress-Mediated Regulation
Journal: The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture bOOK
• August 1992
For most sexually reproducing species all conspecifics of the other sex are not equally valuable as mates: that is, they differ in “mate value.” In many species selection has produced mechanisms to de...
Psychology
Sexual Attraction
Mate Value
Female Preferences
Evolutionary Mechanisms
Sexual Attractiveness
Mate Selection
Reproductive Success
Evolution-Based Concept
Evaluative Mechanisms
High Mate Value
Female Mate Preferences
Natural Selection
Systematic Explanation
Human Attraction
Evolutionary Psychology
Journal: Elements in Applied Evolutionary Science BOOK
• April 2023
Although early-life adversity can undermine healthy development, an evolutionary-developmental perspective implies that children growing up in harsh environments will develop intact, or even enhanced,...
Adaptive Intelligence
Early Adversity
Educational Interventions
Resilience
Developmental Adaptation to Stress
Hidden Talents Model
Stress-Adapted Skills
Problem-Solving Abilities
Harsh Environments
Evolutionary-Developmental Perspective
Translational Implications
Childhood Adversity
Youth Development
Stress-Adapted Intelligence
High-Adversity Contexts
Tailored Interventions
Journal: Developmental Psychobiology
• April 2021
External predictive adaptive response (PAR) models assume that developmental exposures to stress carry predictive information about the future state of the environment, and that development of a faste...
Conduct Symptoms
Early Life Stress
Life History Strategy
Longitudinal Research
Physical Health
Predictive Adaptive Response (PAR)
Risky Sexual Behavior
External PAR Models
Internal PAR Models
Somatic Condition
Caregiver Distress
Socioeconomic Adversity
Prenatal Substance Exposure
Aggressive Behavior
Health and Development
Journal: The Journal of Pediatrics
• April 2020
Social determinants of health (SDoH), factors related to the conditions in which people are born, live, work, play, age, and the systems that shape the conditions of daily life, have emerged as key dr...
Early Life Adversity
Adverse Childhood Events
Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Social Determinants Of Health (SDoH)
Resilience
Lifespan
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)
Division Of Cardiovascular Sciences (DCVS)
National Heart Lung And Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Socioeconomic Status (SES)
Cardiometabolic Health
Behavioral Pathways
Biological Pathways
Mental Health Pathways
Gene-Environment Interactions
Health Inequities
Stress Research
Health Disparities
Neural And Autonomic Responses
Chronic Disease Prevention
Cardiovascular Health
Journal: Human Nature
• April 2009
The current paper synthesizes theory and data from the field of life history (LH) evolution to advance a new developmental theory of variation in human LH strategies. The theory posits that clusters o...
Life History Theory (LH Theory)
Reproductive Strategies
Sexual Maturation
Puberty
Sexual Behavior
Parenting
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Development
Bet-Hedging
Adaptive Individual Differences
Extrinsic Mortality
Animal Behavior
Environmental Risk
Harshness
Unpredictability
Resource Allocation
Intraspecific Competition
Phenotypic Variation
Evolutionary-Developmental Approach
Morbidity-Mortality
Slow-to-Fast Continuum
Population Densities
Resource Scarcity
Multilevel Approach
Life History Strategies
Human Life History (Human LH)
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