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Evolutionary social psychology is a rather recently developed scientific field and tries to understand the complex area of social behavior in the frame of evolutionary psychology and biology (Santrock 2005; Schaller et al. 2006). Essentially, it constitutes the expansion of evolutionary psychology in the social domain.
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Fountoulakis, K.N. (2022). Psychoneurobiology, Brain, and Society (Sociobiology). In: The Human Connectome. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10351-3_19
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