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This volume's aim is to start the process of using theory and findings of evolutionary psychology to help make the world a better place to live. Taking evolutionary psychology explicitly into applied areas, it includes a reasonable scope of applications from pornography to psychopaths and from...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Crawford, Charles (Charles B.), Salmon, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ©2004.
Temas:
Evolutionary psychology.
Psychologie évolutionniste.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Lifespan Development.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I: METHODOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHIE CONSIDERATIONS
  • Public policy and personal decisions: the evolutionary context / Charles Crawford
  • The essence of evolutionary psychology: an introduction / Charles Crawford, Catherine Salmon
  • Beyond sociobiology: a kinder and gentler evolutionary view of human nature / Maria G. Janicki
  • Darwin and evolutionary moral psychology / Harmon Holcomb
  • PART II: COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES
  • Mentalism and mechanism: the twin modes of human cognition / Christopher Badcock
  • Self-deception: helping and hindering public and personal decision making / Michele K. Surbey
  • Ancestral emotions, current decisions: using evolutionary game theory to explore the role of emotions in decision making / Timothy Ketelaar
  • Natural law and natural selection: deontic reasoning as part of evolved human nature / Laurence Fiddick
  • PART III: REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS
  • Marital cooperation and conflict / Margo Wilson, Martin Daly
  • The pornography debate: what sex differences in erotica can tell about human sexuality / Catherine Salmon
  • Why don't men pay child support? Insights from evolutionary psychology / Todd K. Shackelford, Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford
  • Evolutionary life history perspective on rape / Randy Thornhill, Craig T. Palmer
  • Women in the workplace: evolutionary perspectives and public policy / Kingsley R. Browne
  • Is psychopathy a pathology or a life strategy? Implications for social policy / Kirsten N. Barr, Vernon L. Quinsey
  • Cultivating morality and constructing moral systems: how to make silk purses from sows' ears / Dennis L. Krebs
  • Darwinism and public policy: the view from political science / Robert S. Robins.

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