ABSTRACT
The recent rise in the fortunes of evolutionary approaches to psychology has been especially kind to social psychologists, who find themselves in a vanguard position. Many of the animating concerns of evolutionary psychology overlap the traditional content domains of social psychology, and both disciplines share a methodological commitment to understanding the individual in context. Besides having this basic affinity, the evolutionary perspective offers social psychologists a unifying explanatory framework that often departs intriguingly from folk intuitions, an unaccustomed pleasure. As a result, social psychological questions are now central to the mission of evolutionary psychology.
