Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction
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"Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction" is an introduction to evolutionary approaches to psychology and explores the ways in which evolutionary psychological research can provide an understanding of human behaviors and nature.
Some of the areas covered:
Life history theory
Parenting and families
Social cognition and psychoses
Personality and individual differences
The future of evolutionary psychology
Applications of evolutionary theory to psychology
Physical attraction, mate choice, and sexual selection
The evolution of cognition and its interaction with culture
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If you have a question or problem, ask us:Table of Contents/ List of Topics Covered:
1. Evolutionary approaches to behavior
- A brief introduction to evolutionary theory
- Fitness, sociobiology and life history theory
- Evolutionary psychology
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
2. The evolution of cognition
- Why are we so smart?
- How did we get so smart?
- What, exactly are we good at? And when did we get it?
- Conclusions
- References
3. Cooperation as a classic problem in behavioral biology
- Why has cooperation been such a biological puzzle?
- Individual-level solutions to the puzzle: Selfish replicators, cooperative vehicles
- Cooperation via genic self-favourism (kin selection and greenbeard altruism)
- Cooperation via return benefits (reciprocal altruism, indirect reciprocity and costly signaling)
- Summary of individual-level theories of cooperation
- Group selection
- Complex human cooperation: collective action
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- References
4. Mate choice and sexual selection
- Sexual selection
- Which human traits are sexually selected signals?
- Sexual selection and within-sex differences
- Time allocation
- Conclusion
- References
5. The evolutionary psychology of human beauty
- Facial attractiveness
- Bodily attractiveness
- Conclusion and future directions
- References
6. Life history theory and human reproductivity behavior
- Trade-offs in human life history
- The optimisation of family size in traditional societies
- The optimisation of family size in modern societies
- Conclusions and future directions
- Acknowledgments
- References
7. Parenting and families
- What is parental investment?
- Who invests in offspring?
- Familial conflict
- What is invested?
- Who is invested in?
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
8. Personality and individual differences
- The current state of differential psychology
- Personality and the evolutionary imperative
- A cost-benefit analysis of the Big Five
- Authoritarianism
- Ability and intelligence
- 'Dark side' disorders
- Conclusions
- References
9. Evolution, cognition and mental illness: The imprinted brain theory
- The illnesses that made us human
- Antitheses of mentalism in autism and psychosis
- The imprinted brain
- Implications for evolutionary psychology
- Acknowledgments
- References
10. Interactions between cognition and culture
- Social transmission
- Gene-culture co-evolution of cognition and culture (mainly) in the hominid lineage
- Conclusion: A niche construction framework of multimodal inheritance
- References
11. The future of evolutionary psychology
- A brief historical perspective
- Can the EEA be made workable?
- Universals and the challenge of explaining variation
- Hypothesis testing: Alternative approaches
- A vision of the future
- References
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