Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics

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Paul Andrews

Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Psychiatry

Tel: 804 828 8429 Fax: 804 828 1471

Email: pandrews@vcu.edu

P.O. Box: 980126

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Education

• 1990: BS Aerospace Engineering, The University of Arizona
• 1995: JD The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 2002: Ph.D Biology, The University of New Mexico

Research Interests

My research explores the possible evolved functions of depressed affect. I am particularly interested in the possibility that depressed affect may promote an analytical problem-solving style. To test this, I study the relationship between depressed affect and fluid intelligence; the characteristics of stressful life events that make them depressogenic; why there is heritability in depression; and whether depression helps one learn to cope with stressful life events. Because depression plays a causal role in suicidal behavior, I also explore the possible functions of suicidal behavior and the relationship between depressed affect and suicide attempts.

Selected Publications

• Haselton, M. G., Nettle, D., & Andrews, P. W. (in press). The evolution of cognitive bias. The Evolutionary Psychology Handbook
• Andrews, P. W., Gangestad, S. W. & Matthews, D. (2002). Adaptationism - How to carry out an exaptationist program. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 489-504. Target article.
• Andrews, P. W., Gangestad, S. W. & Matthews, D. (2002). Adaptationism, exaptationism, and evolutionary behavioral science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 534-553. Authors' response.
• Watson, P. J. & Andrews, P. W. (2002). Toward a revised evolutionary adaptationist analysis of depression: The social navigation hypothesis. Journal of Affective Disorders 72: 1-14.
• Andrews, P. W. (2001). The psychology of social chess and the evolution of attribution mechanisms: Explaining the fundamental attribution error. Evolution and Human Behavior 22: 11-29.
  
  
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