TY - JOUR
T1 - Early stress, parental motivation, and reproductive decision-making
T2 - applications of life history theory to parental behavior
AU - Cabeza de Baca, Tomás
AU - Ellis, Bruce J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Institute of Health grant T32MH019391 (TCDB), the National Science Foundation grant BCS-1322553 (BJE), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant 73657 (BJE).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - This review focuses on the impact of parental behavior on child development, as interpreted from an evolutionary-developmental perspective. We employ psychosocial acceleration theory to reinterpret the effects of variation in parental investment and involvement on child development, arguing that these effects have been structured by natural selection to match the developing child to current and expected future environments. Over time, an individual's development, physiology, and behavior are organized in a coordinated manner (as instantiated in ‘life history strategies’) that facilitates survival and reproductive success under different conditions. We review evidence to suggest that parental behavior (1) is strategic and contingent on environmental opportunities and constraints and (2) influences child life history strategies across behavioral, cognitive, and physiological domains.
AB - This review focuses on the impact of parental behavior on child development, as interpreted from an evolutionary-developmental perspective. We employ psychosocial acceleration theory to reinterpret the effects of variation in parental investment and involvement on child development, arguing that these effects have been structured by natural selection to match the developing child to current and expected future environments. Over time, an individual's development, physiology, and behavior are organized in a coordinated manner (as instantiated in ‘life history strategies’) that facilitates survival and reproductive success under different conditions. We review evidence to suggest that parental behavior (1) is strategic and contingent on environmental opportunities and constraints and (2) influences child life history strategies across behavioral, cognitive, and physiological domains.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.02.005
DO - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.02.005
M3 - Review article
C2 - 28813248
AN - SCOPUS:85013933186
SN - 2352-250X
VL - 15
SP - 1
EP - 6
JO - Current Opinion in Psychology
JF - Current Opinion in Psychology
ER -