Editing Evolutionary psychology (section)

===Cultural universals===
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Evolutionary psychologists hold that behaviors or traits that occur universally in all cultures are good candidates for evolutionary adaptations.<ref name=Psychology/> Cultural universals include behaviors related to language, cognition, social roles, gender roles, and technology.<ref>[[Donald E. Brown|Brown, Donald E.]] (1991) Human Universals. New York: McGraw-Hill.</ref> Evolved psychological adaptations (such as the ability to learn a language) interact with cultural inputs to produce specific behaviors (e.g., the specific language learned).

Basic gender differences, such as greater eagerness for sex among men and greater coyness among women, are explained as sexually dimorphic psychological adaptations that reflect the different reproductive strategies of males and females. It has been found that both male and female personality traits differ on a large spectrum. Males had a higher rate of traits relating to dominance, tension, and directness. Females had higher rates organizational behavior and more emotional based characteristics.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Schmitt |first1=David P. |last2=Long |first2=Audrey E. |last3=McPhearson |first3=Allante |last4=O'Brien |first4=Kirby |last5=Remmert |first5=Brooke |last6=Shah |first6=Seema H. |date=21 March 2016 |title=Personality and gender differences in global perspective |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijop.12265 |journal=International Journal of Psychology |language=en |volume=52 |issue=S1 |pages=45–56 |doi=10.1002/ijop.12265 |pmid=27000535 |issn=0020-7594}}</ref>

Evolutionary psychologists contrast their approach to what they term the "[[standard social science model]]," according to which the mind is a general-purpose cognition device shaped almost entirely by culture.<ref>Barkow et al. 1992</ref><ref name="instinct">"instinct." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011. Web. 18 February 2011. [https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/289249/instinct].</ref>