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| Natural Selection | The evolutionary process by which heritable traits that best enable organisms to survive and reproduce in particular environments are passed to ensuing generations |
| Evolutionary Psychology | The study of the evolution of cognition and behavior using principles of natural selection |
| Culture | The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a larger group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next |
| Culture Diversity | The diversity of our languages, customs, and expressive behaviors confirms that much of our behavior is socially programmed, not hardwired |
| Norms | Standards for accepted and expected behavior, prescribe “proper” behavior (also describe what most others do) |
| Personal Space | The buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies. Its size depends on our familiarity w/ whoever is near us |
| Gender | In psychology, the characteristics, whether biological or socially influenced by which people define male and female |
| Empathy | The vicarious experience of another’s feelings; putting oneself in another’s shoes |
| Aggression | Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone. In laboratory experiments, this might mean delivering electric shocks or saying something likely to hurt another’s feelings |
| Androgynous | From andro (man) + gyn (woman)—thus mixing both masculine and feminine characteristics |
| Gender Role | A set of behavior expectations (norms) for male and females |
| Interaction | A relationship in which the effect of one factor (such as biology) depends on another factor (such as environment) |
