• Evolutionary psychology Sample content: principles of evolutionary psychology: long & short-term relationships; desirable characteristics in a partner; marriage & the family

• Sexual attraction Sample content: human mating systems; monogamous males & polygamous females; male and female attitudes to multiple sexual partners; sex differences in aggression

• Conflict between parents and children & 'wicked stepmothers' Sample content: the proportion of genes shared by relatives; kin selection theory; male & female investment in stepchildren; abortion, infanticide & abandoned babies

• Behaviour towards family & friends Sample contents: Hamilton's kin selection theory; reciprocal altruism; prisoners dilemma; cheater detection; inheritance of wealth; requesting & giving help

• Grandparents &  grandchildren Sample contents: maternal certainty & paternal uncertainty affect grandparents attitude towards their grandchildren

• Emotion Sample contents: facial expression of emotion; brain & emotion; dopamine & reward

• The roots of evolutionary psychology Sample content: Darwin; eugenics; sociobiology, behaviorism; ethology

• Evolutionary psychology under attack Sample content: creationism & evolution; evolution of human behavior; cultural values; criticisms of evolutionary psychology; spandrels

• Evolutionary psychology: Eugenics in new clothes? Sample content: eugenics; selective breeding; IQ; controversy & misunderstandings; 

• Sources of variation:Genotype and phenotype Sample content: genotype & phenotype; norm of reaction; facial symmetry; heritability; 

• Nature and nurture of gender Sample content: sex & gender, gender role & gender identity explained; sex differences in human behavior; hormones & development

• Animal Behaviour Sample content: ethology, behaviorism & comparative psychology; nature & nurture; development of behavior in birds & fish; prepared responses & taste aversion;

• Ethological Experiments Sample content: animal perception; sign stimuli, releasers and fixed action patterns; motivation in birds & fish

• Lorenz - hydraulic model of motivation

• Home location by wasps

• Egg retrieval by Herring Gulls: the titration experiment

• Depression Sample content: signs & symptoms; the catecholamine theory; noradrenalin, dopamine and serotonin; Prozac; drug tests

• video: Reserpine effects on transmitters

• Depression and Learned Helplessness Sample content: Seligman's psychological theory; Weiss' physiological theory; stress & cognition; noradrenalin

• Depression: Beyond the CA Theory of Mood Sample content: biological markers for depression; serotonin & Prozac; permissive & monoamine theories; stress & depression; early life events; child abuse

• Schizophrenia Sample content: drug treatment; side effects; amphetamine psychosis; dopamine; classic & atypical antipsychotics;

• video: amphetamine: transmitter release

• video: chlorpromazine: receptor blocking

• video: chlorpromazine: amphetamine antagonism

• Drug Treatments for Schizophrenia Sample content: research into new drug treatments; amphetamine antagonism; discriminated avoidance

• Animal models of human behaviour Sample content: depression; schizophrenia; anxiety

• Coping with stress Sample content: psychological factors - control, predictability, feedback; coping in combat & hospital situations;

• Hormones & stress Sample content: brain; hypothalamus; pituitary; adrenal glands; effect of stress on learning & memory

• Drugs & Anxiety Sample content: measuring human anxiety; drugs, serotonin & anxiety; conflict test

• Benzodiazepines and Anxiety Sample content: brain reward & punishment circuits; noradrenalin & serotonin; GABA; receptor binding

• Aggression Sample content: ethology, behaviorism & evolutionary approaches; neurotransmitter, hormones & aggression; sex differences

• Two opposing views of aggression Sample content: ethological & physiological explanations of aggression

• Sexual attraction Sample content:  human mating systems; monogamous males & polygamous females; male and female attitudes to multiple sexual partners; sex differences in aggression

• Hormones and sexual behaviour Sample content: measuring sexual motivation & performance; estrogen; progesterone; testosterone;

• Sex and gender: Nature or Nurture? Sample content: sex & gender, gender role & gender identity explained; sex differences in human behavior; hormones & development

• Human sexual behavior & orientation Sample content: hormone therapy; genetic disorders

• video: Development of external genitalia

• video: Hypothalamic sex difference

• Maternal behaviour Sample content: maternal bonding; child abuse; hormones & emotions during pregnancy; sensory factors

• interactive images: Hormone changes during pregnancy

• interactive images: Changes in behavior during pregnancy

• interactive images: Role of progesterone in the onset of maternal behaviors

• interactive images: Location of ovary & uterus in the rat

• Neurobiology of maternal behaviour Sample content: smell, sound & touch; suckling, brain & maternal behaviors

• Effects of drugs & chemicals on baby's brain: Psychoteratology Sample content: thalidomide; detecting teratogens; frequency of taking medicines during pregnancy; testing for drug safety

• interactive images: Effect of alcohol on the developing brain

• Drug tolerance Sample content: drug addiction vs substance dependence; behavioral & biological tolerance; classical & operant conditioning; heroin overdose

• Drug addiction Sample content: disease, physical dependence & positive reinforcement models of addiction; dopamine & brain reinforcement systems

• Regulation of Food Intake Sample content: drive reduction & positive reinforcement explanations of eating; classical conditioning and sensory factors; physiological theories

• Neural Control of Feeding Sample content: dual control & set point theories; brain - lateral and ventromedial hypothalamus; brain & sensory factors

• The Scientific Method Sample content: Darwin; phrenology; designing experiments; psychiatric disorders; Parkinson's disease

• interactive images: Research into brain transplants for Parkinson's disease

• Neurotransmission Sample content: brain anatomy; neurons; chemical transmission via neurotransmitters; synapse

• video Transmitter release and reuptake

• video: Reserpine effects on transmitters

• video: amphetamine: transmitter release

• video: chlorpromazine: receptor blocking

• video: chlorpromazine: amphetamine antagonism

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Paul has recently taken early retirement and devotes more time than is reasonable to maintaining this website and his lifelong love of all things associated with trout and rivers. He and his colleague Geoff Stephens now operate Fly Fishing Devon which offers fly fishing instruction and guiding on Dartmoor and in South Devon, UK.