title: Evolutionary processes and mother-child attachment in intentional change.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychology,University of Michigan,Ann Arbor,MI 48105hosh@umich.edu; http://www.psych.med.umich.edu/profile/?linkid=ho#; https://mcommunity.umich.edu/#profile:atorresg.
authors.forename: S Shaun
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychology,University of Michigan,Ann Arbor,MI 48105hosh@umich.edu; http://www.psych.med.umich.edu/profile/?linkid=ho#; https://mcommunity.umich.edu/#profile:atorresg.
authors.forename: Adrianna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torres-Garcia
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychology,University of Michigan,Ann Arbor,MI 48105hosh@umich.edu; http://www.psych.med.umich.edu/profile/?linkid=ho#; https://mcommunity.umich.edu/#profile:atorresg.
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Swain
mesh_terms: D001525:Behavioral Sciences; D001527:Behaviorism; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D006801:Humans