PSYC 385

Students explore diverse areas in psychology such as cognitive, social, physiological, and personality from an adaptive evolutionary perspective. Survival and reproductive behaviours are examined through an evolutionary lens, utilizing typical research methods. Topics include gender differences in mate selection/retention, parenting, kinship, cooperative alliances, aggression, status, cross-cultural concerns, and inter-gender conflict. -- Prerequisite -- Prerequisites (or NONE): PSYC 101, PSYC 102, and one of the following: CRIM 220, KIN 301, POSC 300, PSYC 202, or SOC 255/MACS 255 (formerly offered as ANTH 255). -- Corequisite -- None. -- Pre or Corequisite -- None. Section information text: This section has in-person midterm and final exams.