These can contribute to internalizing and externalizing phenotypes. Internalizing problems can include anxiety, depression, and self-harm. Externalizing problems include opposition, delinquency, and hostility.

Life History Strategies and Physiological Responses

This is associated with higher executive functioning (EF), more emotional intelligence, less sexually coercive behavior, and less negative ethnocentrism.

Slow Life History Strategy

This promotes more unstable social relationships and more self-interested behavior. Unpredictable and harsh conditions lead to fast LH strategies. 

Fast Life History Strategy 

LH Theory refers to whether one is focused on present mating with multiple partners and less parental effort, known as a fast LH strategy, or focused on future mating in a long-term relationship and more parental effort, known as a slow LH strategy. 

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This is a developmentally sensitive time as it builds foundational cognitive schemas, life history strategies, and physiological responses. 

Developmental Changes During Early and Middle Adolescence

Csathó, Á., & Birkás, B. (2018). Early-Life Stressors, Personality Development, and Fast Life Strategies: An Evolutionary Perspective on Malevolent Personality Features. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 305. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00305

Early-Life Stressors, Personality Development, and Fast Life Strategies: An Evolutionary Perspective on Malevolent Personality Features

Gladden, P., Figueredo, A., Andrejzak, D., Jones, D., & Smith-Castro, V. (2013). Reproductive Strategy and Sexual Conflict Slow Life History Strategy Inhibits Negative Androcentrism. Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 4(1), 48-71. doi:https://doi.org/10.2458/v4i1.17774

Reproductive Strategy and Sexual Conflict Slow Life History Strategy Inhibits Negative Androcentrism

Cognitive Schemas are mental structures that filter, code, and interpret external and internal stimuli. They manifest as habitual patterns of thinking about oneself, others, the world, or one's relationship with others and the environment.

These cognitive schemas help organize information and often have a top-down influence on perceptions. Nevertheless, maladaptive/negative cognitive schemas often adversely impact mental well-being.

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