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Peer reviewedArcher, John – American Psychologist, 1996
Examines competing claims of two explanations of sex differences in social behavior, social role theory, and evolutionary psychology. Findings associated with social role theory are weighed against evolutionary explanations. It is suggested that evolutionary theory better accounts for the overall pattern of sex differences and for their origins.…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity, Evolution
Download full textHartup, Willard W. – 1976
Using "Patterns of Childrearing," by Sears, Maccoby and Levin (1957) as a starting point, this paper touches on the schism between developmental and social psychology and attempts to assess the progress of research in social development during the past quarter century with respect to five major perspectives that are at once evolutionary,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Rearing, Children, Cross Cultural Studies
