The Nature of the Merit (BERECZKEI Tamás)

Prof. Tamás Bereczkei is Professor in Psychology, with biological and phylosophical background. His interest encompasses fields like sexual attractiveness, mate choice, reproductive behavior, altruism and prosocial behavior, socialization during childhood, and others (see Research and Publications). His main goal is to apply evolutionary approach to psychological problems, and then search for proximate mechanisms underlying adaptive designs. The results of these studies have been published in international journals such as Evolution and Human Behavior, Human Nature, Current Anthropology, Proceedings of Royal Society, Personality and Individual Differences, etc. He is leader of Evolutionary Research Group in the Institute of Psychology (University of Pécs, Hungary), and the co-editor of Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.
