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The Evolutionary Psychology Research Group of Pécs (EPRGP) has been established in 1999 with aims at organizing various psychological surveys in the Darwinian framework. The activity of Research Group is not limited to one or two specific topics but includes many scientific areas in different theoretical frameworks and methods. It encompasses fields like sexual attractiveness, mate choice, reproductive behavior, altruism and prosocial behavior, socialization during childhood, and others (see Research and Publications). Our main goal is to apply evolutionary approach to psychological problems, and then search for proximate mechanisms underlying adaptive designs. The results of these studies have been published in international journals such as Evolution and Human Behavior, Human Nature, Current Anthropology, Proceedings of Royal Society, Personality and Individual Differences, etc.

The EPRGP includes a professor, several lecturers, PhD students, and MA students. Several of them contribute to the teaching of evolutionary psychology for BA and MA psychology students in Hungarian and English. The Group represents a formal, closely linked society that, at the same time, temporarily splits into teams with specialized research task. The majority of the recent studies have been done in two evolutionary paradigms: facial attributes and mate choice, and prosocial behavior in the light of real-life experiments and experimental games. However, we are achieving other projects as well: the role of humor in romantic relationship, relationship between theory of mind and Machiavellism, fertility decisions, etc. (see Publications).

One of us is the co-editor of Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. We have close relationships with experts and workshops of evolutionary psychology in other universities and institutes, and regularly participate in international conferences.

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