Joshua William

“Evolutionary scholars have long stressed the adaptive role of aggressive and antisocial behavior as a high-risk strategy for social and mating competition. In evolutionary psychopathology, antisocial disorders are usually regarded as costly but potentially adaptive strategies rather than behavioral dysfunctions. Some authors have focused specifically on the evolution of psychopathy, and argued that this condition embodies a "cheater" social strategy designed to exploit other people's trust and cooperative behavior while avoiding reciprocation.”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“Women suffer higher rates of depression than men because their survival and reproduction depends more critically on the integrity of social networks (which provide help, protection, and resources). For this reason, they have a stronger evolved motivation to avoid social stressors, a lower tolerance for cues of social conflict, and more intense emotional responses when conflicts break out.”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“Low self-esteem, a negative view of the world, and pessimistic expectations about the future constitute the -cognitive triad- of vulnerability to depression.”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“On average, women are more physically vulnerable than men and less able to defend themselves against attacks. Accordingly, it is adaptive for them to be more sensitive to potential cues of vulnerability and entrapment, and display a lower threshold for the activation of escape behaviors.”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach