''Evolution and Human Behavior'' is a bimonthly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering research in which
evolution
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ary perspectives are brought to bear on the study of
human behavior
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, ranging from
evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolv ...
to
evolutionary anthropology
Evolutionary anthropology, the interdisciplinary study of the evolution of human physiology and human behaviour and of the relation between hominids and non-hominid primates, builds on natural science and on social science. Various fields and ...
and
cultural evolution
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. It is primarily a
scientific journal
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Content
Articles in scientific journals are mostly written by active scientists such as s ...
, but articles from
scholar
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s in the
humanities
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are also published. Papers reporting on
theoretical
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and
empirical
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work on other species may be included if their relevance to the human animal is apparent. The journal was established in 1980, and beginning with Volume 18 in 1997 has been published by
Elsevier
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on behalf of the
Human Behavior and Evolution Society
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. The
editor-in-chief
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is Debra Lieberman (
University of Miami
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).
Among more than 300 other psychology and medical journals, ''Evolution and Human Behavior'' has adopted
result-blind peer review
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(i.e. where studies are accepted not on the basis of their findings and after the studies are completed, but before the studies are conducted and upon the basis of the methodological rigor of their experimental designs and the theoretical justifications for their statistical analysis techniques before data collection or analysis is done) as part of an initiative organized by the
Center for Open Science
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in response to concerns about the
replicability of experimental findings in the sciences and medicine,
publication bias
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, and
''p''-hacking. Early analysis of such reforms in psychology journals has estimated that 61 percent of result-blind studies have led to
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s, in contrast to an estimated 5 to 20 percent in earlier psychological research.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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of 4.178.
Best paper award
The "
Margo Wilson Margo Wilson (1942–2009) was a Canadian evolutionary psychologist. She was a professor of psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, noted for her pioneering work in the field of evolutionary psychology and her contributi ...
Award" is an annual award presented for the best paper published in the journal in the previous year.
References
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Evolutionary psychology journals
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Bimonthly journals
Publications established in 1980
English-language journals