Psychology, Neurobiology & Human Development
How civilization reshapes the human mind — and what a baseline of healthy human development actually looks like.
34 works
Erdal D and Whiten A (1996)
Egalitarianism and Machiavellian intelligence in human evolution
In Mellars P & Gibson K (eds). Modeling the early human mind. Cambridge: MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, MacDonald Institute Monographs: 139-50.
Geary D & Bailey D (2009)
Hominid brain evolution: testing climatic, ecological, and social competition models
Human Nature, 20, 265-279.
Glendinning C (1994)
My name is Chellis and I'm in recovery from western civilization
Gabriola Island BC: New Catalyst Books.
Hewlett BS & Lamb ME (2005)
Hunter-gatherer childhoods: evolutionary, developmental and cultural perspectives
New Brunswick, NJ: Aldine.
Hrdy SB (2009)
Mothers and others: the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
Kidner D (2007)
Depression and the natural world: towards a critical psychology of psychological distress
International Journal of Critical Psychology, 19:123-146.
Kidner D (2012)
Nature and experience in the culture of delusion: how industrial society lost touch with reality
Palgrave Macmillan.
Kidner DW (2001)
Nature and psyche: radical environmentalism and the politics of subjectivity
Albany: State University of New York.
Lord E (2016)
Modern Madness: a wild schizoanalysis of mental distress in the spaces of modernity
Winter Oak Press.
Martin L (1999)
ID compensation theory: some implications of trying to satisfy immediate-return needs in a delayed-return culture
Psychological Inquiry 10(3):195-208.
Martin L & Shirk S (2007)
Immediate-return societies: what can they tell us about the self and social relationships in our society?
Wood JV, Tesser A, Holmes JG 2007 (eds). The self and social relationships. 1st Edition. Imprint Psychology Press.
Martin L et al (2014)
ID compensation: exploring the relations among mindfulness, a close brush with death, and our hunter-gatherer heritage
Le A, Ngnoumen CT, Langer EJ 2014 (eds). The Wiley Blackwell handbook of mindfulness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Ch. 16.
McGilchrist I (2019)
The master and his emissary: the divided brain and the making of the western world
Yale University Press.
McGilchrist I (2021)
The matter of things: our brains, our delusions, and the unmaking of the world, volumes I & II
London: Perspectiva Press.
Mithen S (2007)
Did farming arise from a misapplication of social intelligence?
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 362, 705-718.
Narvaez D (2014)
Neurobiology and the development of human morality: Evolution, culture, and wisdom
W. W. Norton & Company.
Narvaez D (2019)
In search of baselines: Why psychology needs cognitive archaeology
In Henley T, Rossano M & Kardas E (Eds.), Handbook of cognitive archaeology: A psychological framework. London: Routledge. Pg. 104-119.
Narvaez D (2021)
Indigenous self-actualization is communal: individualism is not our species' heritage and can misdirect development
Psychology Today, October 31, 2021.
Narvaez D & Bradshaw GA (2023)
The evolved nest: nature's way of raising children and creating connected communities
North Atlantic Books.
Narvaez D & Tarsha M (2021)
The missing mind: Contrasting civilization with non-civilization development and functioning
In Henley T & Rossano M (Eds.), Psychology and cognitive archaeology: An Interdisciplinary approach to the study of the human mind. London: Routledge. (pp. 55-69).
Narvaez D & Witherington D (2018)
Getting to baselines for human nature, development, and wellbeing
Archives of Scientific Psychology 2018, 6: 205–213.
Narvaez D, Moore DS, Witherington DC, Vandiver TI, Lickliter R (2022)
Evolving Evolutionary Psychology
American Psychologist Vol. 77, No. 3:421-438.
Power C (2019)
The role of egalitarianism and gender ritual in the evolution of symbolic cognition
In Henley TB, Rossano MJ, Kardas E 2019 (eds) Handbook of cognitive archaeology: psychology in prehistory: Routledge, pp.354-374.
Seely M (2012)
Born expecting the Pleistocene: psychology and the problem of civilization
OldDog Books.
Sorenson ER (1976)
The edge of the forest: land, childhood and change in a New Guinea protoagricultural society
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Sorenson ER (1979)
Early tactile communication and the patterning of human organization: a New Guinea case study
In Bullowa M (ed.). Before speech: the beginning of interpersonal communication. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 289-305.
Sorenson ER (1995)
Sensuality and consciousness III: To dance with nature's forces
Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. 6, No. 2, June, pp. 1-14.
Sorenson ER (1996)
Sensuality and consciousness IV: where did the liminal flowers go?
Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. 7, No. 4, December, pp. 9-30.
Sorenson ER (1997)
Sensuality and consciousness V: emergence of the “savage savage”
Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. 8, No. 1, March, pp. 1-9.
Sorenson ER (1998a)
Preconquest consciousness
In Wautischer H (Ed). Tribal epistemologies. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 79-115.
Sorenson ER (1998b)
Sensuality and consciousness VI: a preconquest sojourn
Anthropology of Consciousness, Vol. 9, No. 2, June.
Summers N (2019)
Primal: why we long to be wild and free
Guilford, CT: Falcon Press.
Turnbull CM (1983)
The human cycle
New York: Simon & Schuster.
Whiten A & Erdal D (2012)
The human socio-cognitive niche and its evolutionary origins
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367:2119-29.