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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.