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Evolutionary processes and mother-child attachment in intentional change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2014

S. Shaun Ho ,
Adrianna Torres-Garcia  and
James E. Swain
S. Shaun Ho
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI [email protected]://www.psych.med.umich.edu/profile/?linkid=ho#https://mcommunity.umich.edu/#profile:atorresg
Adrianna Torres-Garcia
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI [email protected]://www.psych.med.umich.edu/profile/?linkid=ho#https://mcommunity.umich.edu/#profile:atorresg
James E. Swain
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI [email protected]://www.psych.med.umich.edu/profile/?linkid=ho#https://mcommunity.umich.edu/#profile:atorresg Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520. [email protected]://www.psych.med.umich.edu/profile/?linkid=jamesswa
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Abstract

Behavioral change may occur through evolutionary processes such as running stochastic evolutionary algorithms, with a fitness function to determine a winning solution from many. A science of intentional change will therefore require identification of fitness functions – causal mechanisms of adaptation – that can be acquired only with analytical approaches. Fitness functions may be subject to early-life experiences with parents, which influence some of the very same brain circuits that may mediate behavioral change through interventions.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 426 - 427
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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