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| The evolutionary process by which heritable traits that best enable organisms to survive and reproduce in particular environments are passed to ensuing generations. |
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| The study of the evolution of cognition and behavior using principles of natural selection. |
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| The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. |
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| Standards for accepted and expected behavior. norms prescribe "proper" behavior. (In a different sense of the word, norms also describe what most others do--what is normal.) |
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| The buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies. Its size depends on our familiarity with whoever is near us. |
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| In psychology, the characteristics, whether biological or socially influenced, by which people define male and female. |
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| The vicarious experience of another's feelings; putting oneself in another's shoes. |
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| Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone. In laboratory experiments, this might mean delivering electric shock or saying something likely to hurt another's feelings. |
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| A set of behavior expectations (norms) for males and females. |
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| A relationship in which the effect of one factor (such as biology) depends on another factor (such as environment). |
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