Evoked Responses from Ecological Pressures
The emergence of different behaviors and the psychological constructs discussed in the empirical research were based on the presence of diseases over time in a given area.
Psychologists use evolutionary perspectives to study behaviors that evolved within past civilizations based on the human ability to adapt to constantly changing environments.
Evolutionary perspectives are dependent on the idea of nature and nurture working together and not exisiting as two seperate entities.
Evoked responses to changing environmental factors, or otherwise known as ecological pressures, is a concept psychologists call Evoked culture (Varnum & Grossman, 2017).
Different cultures that have evolved around the world are based on the varying environmental conditions humans had to adapt to.
The main ecological pressure the podcast focusses on is pathogen prevalence (diseases) and the different behaviors that emerged as a result of this pressure over time.