C A Soper
Biographic Data
| ID | 7112209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C A Soper |
| GIVEN NAMES | C A |
| FAMILY NAME | Soper |
| SIGNATURE | SOPER C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Private Practice, Lisbon, Portugal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3320-5988 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no
Ethological Problems with the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide
Joiner and colleagues' Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (IPTS), a prominent "desire-capability" model of suicide-based on the common-sense idea that people take their own lives because they want to, and can-is critiqued from a biological perspective. Tinbergen's ethological "four questions" guide the analysis: evolution, survival value, ontogeny, and proximate causation, each addressing a different aspect of biological understanding. Problems for …
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Ethological Problems with the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide
Joiner and colleagues' Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (IPTS), a prominent "desire-capability" model of suicide-based on the common-sense idea that people take their own lives because they want to, and can-is critiqued from a biological perspective. Tinbergen's ethological "four questions" guide the analysis: evolution, survival value, ontogeny, and proximate causation, each addressing a different aspect of biological understanding. Problems for …
Are depression and suicidality evolved signals? Evidently, no
Medicine (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (2 works) · Anxiety (1 works) · Depressive symptoms (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Evolutionary psychology (1 works) · Evolutionary theory (1 works) · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse (1 works)