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Affordances and development: Distinguishing ecological and standard evolutionary psychology approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2026

M. Natali Ramírez Open the ORCID record for M. Natali Ramírez [Opens in a new window]  and
Rodrigo Sosa Open the ORCID record for Rodrigo Sosa [Opens in a new window]
M. Natali Ramírez
Affiliation:
Universidad de Guadalajara. Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico martha.ramirez0689@alumnos.udg.mx
Rodrigo Sosa*
Affiliation:
Escuela de Pedagogía y Psicología, Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, Mexico rsosas@up.edu.mx https://github.com/RSosa-BehavioralScience
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Abstract

Our objective is twofold: (1) to advise the authors to engage more fully with the tenets of ecological psychology, from which the term “affordance” originates, and (2) to note that the article’s framing aligns with traditional evolutionary psychology, rebranding modular, information-processing, and gene-centric assumptions in ecological language. This does not deny that affordances are central to explaining behavioral change across life stages.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 49 , 2026 , e76
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