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An Evolutionarily Informed Education Science

GEARY, DAVID C.·2008·Educational Psychologist

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Schools are a central interface between evolution and culture. They are the contexts in which children learn the evolutionarily novel abilities and knowledge needed to function as adults in modern societies. Evolutionary educational psychology is the study of how an evolved bias in children's learning and motivational systems influences their ability and motivation to learn evolutionarily novel academic abilities and information in school. I provide an overview of evolved domains of mind, corresponding learning and motivational biases, and the evolved systems that allow humans to learn about and cope with variation and change within lifetimes. The latter enable the creation of cultural and academic innovations and support the learning of evolutionarily novel information in school. These mechanisms and the premises and principles of evolutionary educational psychology are described. Their utility is illustrated by discussion of the relation between evolved motivational dispositions and children's academic motivation and by the relation between evolved social-cognitive systems and mechanisms that support children's learning to read.

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Authors: GEARY, D. C.
Affiliations: University of Missouri (US)
Corresponding author: GEARY, DAVID C.
ORCID: GEARY, DAVID C.
Venue: Educational Psychologist
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Published: 2008-10-23
Volume: 43
Issue: 4
Pages: 179-195
ISSN: 0046-1520 (ISSN-L)
1532-6985
DOI: 10.1080/00461520802392133
OpenAlex: W2098051169
Cited by: 324
References: 169
Citations by year: 2026: 19 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 5
FWCI: 13.18
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Educational Psychologist (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Psychology of Development and Education
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Evolution and Science Education
Keywords: motivational biases, academic motivation, children's learning, reading acquisition, cultural evolution, evolution and culture

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