Okay, so Dr. Silver is a psychologist who studies emotion, specifically how emotions like guilt and shame can motivate prosocial behaviors, very cool stuff. So, an excerpt from her most recent paper reads, prosocial behaviors increase communal acceptance and rank within the social hierarchy, both of which contribute to mate selection and reproductive capacity. Based on this, what type of psychologist do you think Dr. Silver is?

And then our choices are cognitive, developmental, evolutionary, or a neuroscientist. So let's look through this and look for some keywords. So, she's talking about how prosocial behavior might increase communal acceptance. She's also talking about rank within a social hierarchy. And then her, kind of, downstream effects that she's interested in are mate selection and reproductive capacity.

And these two things, in particular, are sounding very evolutionary psych to me. Basically, what she's trying to understand is how the development of emotions would have been evolutionarily advantageous. Why would we have developed emotions like guilt and shame? So, it's looking like she's probably an evolutionary psychologist. If she were a cognitive psychologist or a developmental psychologist, she probably wouldn't be particularly interested in these types of outcomes.

She'd probably be trying to understand something about information processing or, you know, memory or attention as a cognitive psychologist. As a developmental psychologist, she'd be much more interested in how those emotions might develop or change throughout the lifespan, and as a neuroscientist, she'd be more interested in the biological aspects of these emotions, potentially. So, it is looking like Dr. Silver is an evolutionary psychologist. And there you go.