Principles of evolutionary educational psychology

The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation.

Baumeister, R. F., & Leary, M. R. (1995) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037//0033-2909.117.3.497 · Cited by 23,245

The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I

Hamilton, W. D. (1964) · Journal of Theoretical Biology · doi:10.1016/0022-5193(64)90038-4 · Cited by 15,725

The Handbook of Social Psychology

Gravatt, A. E., Lindzey, G. E., & Aronson, F. (1969) · The Family Coordinator · doi:10.2307/582242 · Cited by 12,518

The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism

Trivers, R. L. (1971) · The Quarterly Review of Biology · doi:10.1086/406755 · Cited by 11,010

The descent of man and selection in relation to sex

チャールス, ダ., & 茂穂, 田. (1907) · Tokyo Jinrui Gakkai zasshi · doi:10.1537/ase1887.22.495 · Cited by 10,909

The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance

Ericsson, K. A., Krampe, R. T., & Tesch-Römer, C. (1993) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/0033-295x.100.3.363 · Cited by 9,564 · cited 1×

On The Language Instinct

Pinker, S. A. (1994) · PsycEXTRA Dataset · doi:10.1037/e412952005-009 · Cited by 5,879

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Livezey, R. L., & Darwin, C. R. (1953) · The American Midland Naturalist · doi:10.2307/2485224 · Cited by 5,431

The structure of phenotypic personality traits.

Goldberg, L. R. (1993) · American Psychologist · doi:10.1037/0003-066x.48.1.26 · Cited by 4,816

The Cognitive neurosciences

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Stakeholders’ Roles in Evolutionizing Education: An Evolutionary-Based Toolkit Surrounding Elementary Education

Gruskin, K., Griffin, M., Bansal, S., Dickinson-Frevola, S., Dykeman, A., Groce-Volinski, D., Henriquez, K., Kardas, M., McCarthy, A., Shetty, A., et al. (2025) · Behavioral Sciences · doi:10.3390/bs15010092 · Cited by 6

Good errors in mathematics education

Leron, U., & Ejersbo, L. R. (2019) · International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology · doi:10.1080/0020739x.2019.1706004 · Cited by 6

Pursuing Excellence and Equity in Education

Heuston, B. (2022) · Advances in early childhood and K-12 education · doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-8649-5.ch026 · Cited by 4

Social policy, educational opportunity, and classroom practice: a co-regulation approach to research on student motivation and achievement

McCaslin, M. M., & Lavigne, A. L. (2010) · Advances in motivation and achievement · doi:10.1108/s0749-7423(2010)000016b010 · Cited by 4

The New Zealand mathematics curriculum: A critical commentary

Morrow, N., Rata, E., & Evans, T. (2022) · STEM Education · doi:10.3934/steme.2022004 · Cited by 3

How Should I Teach from This Month Onward? A State-Space Model That Helps Drive Whole Classes to Achieve End-of-Year National Standardized Test Learning Targets

Ulloa, O., & Araya, R. (2022) · Systems · doi:10.3390/systems10050167 · Cited by 3

Evolution and development of folk knowledge: Implications for children's learning

Geary, D. C. (2003) · Journal for the Study of Education and Development Infancia y Aprendizaje · doi:10.1174/021037003322299052 · Cited by 5

Utilização de Técnicas de Manejo Comportamental e Neuropsicológicas para Intervenção dos Transtornos de Aprendizagem

Gomides, M. R. D. A., Haase, V. G., Martins, G. A., Barbosa, D. C. B. P., & Júlio-Costa, A. (2016) · Interação em Psicologia · doi:10.5380/psi.v18i3.47032 · Cited by 5

Designing mathematics standards in agreement with science

Hartman, J. R., Hart, S., Nelson, E. A., & Kirschner, P. A. (2023) · International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education · doi:10.29333/iejme/13179 · Cited by 9

Does the size of tracing actions affect learning outcomes?

Galbraith, F., & Ginns, P. (2023) · The Educational and Developmental Psychologist · doi:10.1080/20590776.2022.2161879 · Cited by 2

Optimizing Tutorial Design for Video Card Games Based on Cognitive Load Theory: Measuring Game Complexity

Li, C., Dai, C., & Chan, W. K. (2024) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-60692-2_5 · Cited by 2

First fixation duration as a bottom-up measure during symbolic and non-symbolic numerical comparisons ( La duración de la primera fijación como medida bottom-up al comparar cantidades simbólicas y no simbólicas )

Peake, C., Moscoso-Mellado, J., & Guerra, E. (2020) · Studies in Psychology Estudios de Psicología · doi:10.1080/02109395.2020.1794717 · Cited by 2

The Long Road to Sámi Teacher Education

Elstad, E. (2023) · Evaluating education: Normative systems and institutional practices · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-26051-3_11 · Cited by 2

Comparing Real and Imitative Practice with No Practice during Observational Learning of Hand Motor Skills from Animations

Mian, M. N., Beder, H., Marcus, N., & Ayres, P. (2024) · Education Sciences · doi:10.3390/educsci14090949 · Cited by 4

Integrating Human Movement in Learning: Advancements in Language Instruction, Multimedia, and Theory

de Koning, B. B., Zhang, S., & Sepp, S. (2025) · Educational Psychology Review · doi:10.1007/s10648-025-10027-1 · Cited by 4

Disentangling the Impacts of Childhood Environment on Problematic Smartphone Use From the Life History Perspective

Zhang, M. X., Zhang, H., & Wu, A. M. S. (2025) · Journal of korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.5765/jkacap.250020 · Cited by 2

Entwicklung und Evolution

Euler, H. Α. (2013) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34805-1_3 · Cited by 2

Evolutionary and Genetic Bases of Education: An Adaptive Perspective

Ando, J. (2009) · The Annual Report of Educational Psychology in Japan · doi:10.5926/arepj1962.48.0_235 · Cited by 2

Reflections on New Zealand music education through the lens of Swanwick and Tillman’s model of musical development

Thorpe, V., & McPhail, G. J. (2022) · British Journal of Music Education · doi:10.1017/s0265051721000334 · Cited by 2

First Language Acquisition

Pemberton, I. (2024) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-53414-0_8 · Cited by 2

MATHEMATICAL THINKING & HUMAN NATURE: CONSONANCE & CONFLICT

Leron, U. (2004) · Cited by 2

Why education should engage in the inner curriculum of the mind

Harant, M. (2021) · Pedagogy Culture and Society · doi:10.1080/14681366.2021.1949383 · Cited by 3

Evolutionary approaches and psychopathology: Life history theory and psychobiological systems for borderline personality disorder

Torres-Cuellar, L., Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, C., Puerto-Rojas, E., Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, C., González-Bernal, M., Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, C., Grau-Gonzalez, I. A., Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, C., Ortega, L. A., & Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, C. (2022) · Papeles del Psicólogo - Psychologist Papers · doi:10.23923/pap.psicol.2997 · Cited by 1

Individual vs cooperative self-regulated learning for acquiring workplace competences

Hüster, E., & Morris, T. H. (2026) · International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education · doi:10.1177/03064190261434492 · Cited by 1

Why China is currently underperforming in medical innovation and what China can do about it?-Part III: social psychology and evolutionary psychology perspectives.

Wáng, Y. X. J. (2015) · Europe PMC (PubMed Central) · doi:10.3978/j.issn.2223-4292.2015.05.01 · Cited by 1

Embedding Test Questions in Educational Mobile Virtual Reality: A Study on Hospital Hygiene Procedures

Buttussi, F., & Chittaro, L. (2024) · IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies · doi:10.1109/tlt.2024.3487898 · Cited by 2

Book Review: Round up the Usual Suspects

Winegard, B., & Winegard, B. M. (2012) · Evolutionary Psychology · doi:10.1177/147470491201000203 · Cited by 1

Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressive Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piagetby Kieran Egan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. x+204 pp.; index. $30.00 (cloth).

Geary, D. C. (2006) · American Journal of Education · doi:10.1086/499000 · Cited by 1

A Paradigm Shift: The Implications of Working Memory Limits for Physics and Chemistry InstructionPreprint

Hartman, J. R., & Nelson, E. A. (2021) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2102.00454 · Cited by 3

Response

Rata, E. (2019) · Waikato journal of education · doi:10.15663/wje.v24i1.675 · Cited by 1

Tabletalk

McCaslin, M., Vega, R. I., Anderson, E. E., Calderon, C. N., & Labistre, A. M. (2011) · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks · doi:10.1108/978-1-61735-440-320251013 · Cited by 1

Effect of ebooks on reading level, reading behaviors and attitude of second grade students

VanAken, A. M. (2014) · Digital Commons (Liberty University)

The Human Lineage

Hillert, D. G. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-0609-3_1

How role play addresses the difficulties students perceive when writing reflectively about the concepts they are learning in science

Millar, S. B. (2007) · PhDT

Learning to Solve Mathematics Problems in Group Work Settings

Retnowati, E. (2011) · Proceedings of The Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (formerly UniServe Science Conference)

Instructional Design in Digital Environments and Availability of Mental Resources

Low, R., Jin, P., & Sweller, J. (2012) · IGI Global eBooks · doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-1966-1.ch005

Instructional Design in Digital Environments and Availability of Mental Resources for the Aged Subpopulation

Low, R., Jin, P., & Sweller, J. (2013) · IGI Global eBooks · doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-4422-9.ch059

The Implications for Science Education of the Evolutionary Perspective on Education

Jang, M.-D. (2016) · Journal of the Korean society of earth science education · doi:10.15523/jksese.2016.9.2.107

A Psychological Foundation for Future-oriented Mathematics Classrooms

이종희, & 이소민 (2014) · 교과교육학연구 · doi:10.24231/rici.2014.18.3.645

Validation Of An Instrument For Assessing Conceptual Change With Respect To The Theory Of Evolution By Secondary Biology Students

Goff, K. D. (2017) · W&M Publish (College of William & Mary) · doi:10.21220/w43m27

Intermediate students at-risk in mathematics : case studies of teachers and students

Zuke, C. R. (2009) · Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)

Student Discussion from an Evolutionary Perspective

Metzgar, M. (2019) · Social Communication · doi:10.2478/sc-2019-0002

Further Investigating Pen Gesture Features Sensitive to Cognitive Load

Luo, L., Taib, R., Anthony, L., & Lai, J. (2013)

Inclusive Ecocentric Education

Krieger, D. J. (2020) · Scholarship@Western (Western University)

Irreconcilable Differences?

Heuston, B. (2022) · Advances in early childhood and K-12 education · doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-8649-5.ch004

Investigating dyadic interactions within the family as an interdependent system : associations between mothers and adolescent siblings

Odudu, C. (2020) · doi:10.32469/10355/79487

Changing Perspectives and Attitudes on Early Childhood Research and Education

Varga, L., Kitzinger, A., & Zsámboki, R. K. (2022) · Soproni Egyetem Kiadó eBooks · doi:10.35511/978-963-334-425-5

Teaching Maths at Early Years : From Lecture Method to Discovery Approach

Zsámboki, R. K. (2022) · Soproni Egyetem Kiadó eBooks · doi:10.35511/978-963-334-425-5-kissnezsamboki

Integrate Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education with Remote Sensing Specialty Education through Project-Based Learning

万, 海. (2023) · Creative Education Studies · doi:10.12677/ces.2023.117248

Elementary probabilistic operations: a framework for probabilistic reasoning

Macho, S., & Ledermann, T. (2023) · Thinking & Reasoning · doi:10.1080/13546783.2023.2259541

Digital Assessment of the Acquisition and Utility of Biologically Secondary Knowledge

Low, R., Jin, P., & Sweller, J. (2012) · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks · doi:10.1108/book-978-1-61735-634-620251013

Implications of Game Use for Explicit Instruction

Jin, P., & Low, R. (2011) · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks · doi:10.1108/978-1-61735-410-620251019

The Promise of Academic Learning Time in a Dose-Response Model of Early Reading Achievement

Heuston, B. (2008) · ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University)

Preparing Teachers for CLIL

Ting, Y. L. T. (2025) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009263283.015

Cognitive load, extended reality, and visuospatial abilities in physical science education: a systematic review

Kenneally, C. D., Bentley, B., & Willison, J. (2026) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1767304

A la recherche du chaînon manquant : le groupement configuré comme intermédiaire entre l'approximation des quantités et la maîtrise du nombre chez des enfants de 5 et 8 ans

Miravète, S. (2016) · doi:10.70675/a69948f0zfc78z4470zb2a0z4a66e26aaf6d

Approche psycho-ergonomique de l'usage de la simulation en e-learning pour l'apprentissage de procédures : le cas du point de suture

Jannin, L. (2020) · theses.fr (ABES) · doi:10.70675/e5256ceaz0d1bz4a9azac84zcdf845f55da8

The Promise Vs. Peril of AI in LearningPreprint

Krishan, K. (2026) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.6897021

Acquisition of workplace knowledge through individual and cooperative self-regulated learning

Hüster, E., & Morris, T. H. (2026) · International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education · doi:10.1177/03064190261468488

Applying cognitive load theory to special education: a reconceptualisation through evolutionary psychology

Poon, K., & Sweller, J. (2026) · The Educational and Developmental Psychologist · doi:10.1080/20590776.2026.2698717

Learning and Individual Differences 12 (2002) 317–345 Principles of evolutionary educational psychology

Geary, D. C. (2001)

Evolution and development of folk knowledge: Implications for children's learning

Geary, D. C. (2003) · Journal for the Study of Education and Development Infancia y Aprendizaje · doi:10.1174/021037003322299052 · Cited by 5

An evolutionary view of learning

Kirschner, P. A., & Hendrick, C. (2020) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9780429061523-4

Evolution and education.

Geary, D. C. (2010) · PubMed · Cited by 8

Evolution and Children’s Cognitive and Academic Development

Geary, D. C., & Berch, D. B. (2016) · Evolutionary Psychology · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29986-0_9 · Cited by 101