Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences® (EBS) publishes manuscripts that advance the study of all aspects of the human mind and human behavior from an evolutionary perspective, with an emphasis on social processes (e.g., affiliation, alliances, competition, conflict, cooperation, friendship, relationships, sexuality, status, etc.), cognition, emotion and motivation, and development.

EBS welcomes studies that address commonalities as well as differences between individuals and groups in psychological functioning and behavior (e.g., studies of temperament or personality, cross-cultural studies), particularly if they integrate methods and perspectives from different scientific disciplines.

EBS also welcomes studies that address the interplay between evolved psychological mechanisms and cultural influences in driving behavior (e.g., studies of morality, religion, law, politics, and other human institutions), including studies that test established theory in new cultural contexts.

Finally, EBS is strongly committed to the publication of research conducted within the framework of consilience, which aims to integrate evolutionary psychological and behavioral perspectives with perspectives from humanistic disciplines such as history, philosophy, art and art history, literature and literary criticism, and music.

EBS publishes both empirical and theoretical manuscripts and welcomes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches. EBS will consider research on non-human animals provided it offers some insight on a current question in the study of human behavior.

All manuscripts will be evaluated on the basis of their quality (e.g., originality, strong theoretical foundations, conceptual clarity, strong methodology and rigorous analyses, attention to construct and measurement validity, adequate sample sizes, impactful findings) and regardless of their length. In addition to original research articles, EBS encourages the submission of reviews of the literature, meta-analyses of previous research, replication studies, and commentaries on articles previously published in EBS or other journals. The use of open science practices is encouraged but not mandatory.

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