![]() ![]() ![]() Theory and research are selectively reviewed in efforts to demonstrate the utility and limits of evolutionary psychology as an approach to sport and exercise psychology.Results and conclusionsEvolutionary psychology offers researchers in sport and exercise psychology an improved capacity to produce proximate explanations (i.e., how psychological mechanisms interact with the environment to produce behavior) by generating productive and novel hypotheses from ultimate explanations (i.e., why a psychological mechanism evolved a particular design Tooby & Cosmides, 1992, 2005). Next, we discuss how evolutionary psychology can inform our understanding of sporting culture.DesignReview paper.Methods ![]() Specifically, we offer a primer on evolutionary psychology that we then discuss in the context of several research avenues in sport and exercise. This review aims to demonstrate the utility of integrating the insights of evolutionary psychology with sport and exercise psychology. ![]()
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